South Africans are 'off-gridding'

Research exploring off-grid practices in South Africa has defined three forms of off-gridding, highlighting that reasons for being off-grid vary depending on income background, in turn highlighting that decentralized energy transitions can reproduce existing inequalities.Research from the University of Cambridge has developed a framework identifying forms of off-gridding in South Africa. In the research paper "Towards a framework of 'off-gridding': Conceptualising the practices and processes of urban energy transitions in South Africa," available in the journal Geoforum, corresponding author ...

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