BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1907@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201125T153431 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201029T120000 SUMMARY:The evolving role of finance in renewable electricity systems in Se negal DESCRIPTION:The lecture is part of the MIASA IFG 4 Virtual Public lecture S eries\, which is organized in cooperation with the Institute for Statistic al and Economic Research (ISSER)\, University of Ghana.\\r\\nAbstract\\r\\ nAccording to the IEA\, in 2018 75 per cent of Senegal’s electricity was generated from diesel generators. Until recently\, the country suffered f rom regular and prolonged electricity blackouts and load-shedding\, accomp anied by rising electricity tariffs. However\, electricity security and ac cess have started to improve since 2012 following the government’s commi tment to achieve 100 per cent electrification and overhaul the generation mix\, with the promotion of renewable energy as a core objective. \\r\\n Thus far\, however\, limited critical thinking has been dedicated to how t hese emerging systems of renewable electricity systems are being financed and owned. With this in mind\, Baker asks the following questions:\\r\\nWh at are the evolving configurations and processes of finance and investment in different scales of renewable electricity generation in Senegal?Throug h which regulatory mechanisms have they been facilitated?How are they inte racting with national and local territorial realities?\\r\\nAnalytically t he research builds on emerging concepts of ‘geographies of electricity c apital’ (Luke and Huber 2020) in order to understand evolving interactio ns between finance\, technologies and infrastructure and the role of the s tate and other public and private actors in setting the terms for new conf igurations of electricity generation\, transmission and distribution. X-ALT-DESC:

The lecture is part of the MIASA IFG 4 Virtual Public lecture Series\, which is organized in cooperation with the Institute for Statist ical and Economic Research (ISSER)\, University of Ghana.

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According to the IEA\, in 2018 75 per cent of Senegal’s electricity was generated from diesel generators. Until recently\, the cou ntry suffered from regular and prolonged electricity blackouts and load-sh edding\, accompanied by rising electricity tariffs. However\, electricity security and access have started to improve since 2012 following the gover nment’s commitment to achieve 100 per cent electrification and overhaul the generation mix\, with the promotion of renewable energy as a core obje ctive. \;

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Thus far\, however\, limited critical thinking has been dedicated to how these emerging systems of renewable electricity syst ems are being financed and owned. With this in mind\, Baker asks the follo wing questions:

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Analytically the research buil ds on emerging concepts of ‘geographies of electricity capital’ (Luke and Huber 2020) in order to understand evolving interactions between finan ce\, technologies and infrastructure and the role of the state and other p ublic and private actors in setting the terms for new configurations of el ectricity generation\, transmission and distribution.

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