View source for File:Sprong - Greening Kenyan Electricity Generation An innovation system functions approach to the role of the CDM in the adoption of wind energy technologies in Kenya.pdf

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|description={{en|1=This study is part of a research project on ‘Greening the African Energy Ladder: The
role of national polices and international aid” carried out in a cooperation between the
Dutch Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS), The Netherlands
Energy Research Center (ECN) and the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM). The
study takes an innovation system functions approach to investigate the dynamics
around the adoption of wind energy in Kenya. Seven functions are used to characterize
the evolution of adoption dynamics around wind energy in Kenya, these are:
entrepreneurial activity, knowledge development and knowledge diffusion, guidance of
the search, market formation, resource mobilization, and support of advocacy
coalitions. The paper concludes that the trend patterns in the Kenyan wind
technological innovation system (WTIS) are generally characterized by an increase in
functional activity. The functions knowledge development, knowledge diffusion, market
formation and support of advocacy coalitions show a clear increase in functional
intensity. Resource mobilization and entrepreneurial activity are lagging behind. The
positively developed functions are induced by institutional developments in the energy
sector, the early activity of key individuals and developments in information and
communication technologies. A lack of managerial skills among actors in the wind
energy system, lack of capabilities for renewable energy infrastructure investment
among finance institutions and uncertainties about power demand and sovereign
guarantees are currently blocking the resource mobilization and entrepreneurial
activity functions. Regarding the role of the Clean Development Mechanism in the
evolution of the system, the thesis concludes that the CDM has only marginally
influenced the evolution of the Kenyan WTIS.}}
|date=2010-03-31
|source=VU University Amsterdam
|author=Niels Sprong
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