{"id":62685,"date":"2022-10-03T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atpsnet.org\/stage\/?p=62685"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:53:39","slug":"political-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atpsnet.org\/stage\/political-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Political Economy of Low Carbon Energy in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"62685\" class=\"elementor elementor-62685\" wpc-filter-elementor-widget=\"1\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b116d0c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b116d0c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-feb60d0\" data-id=\"feb60d0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e8b1d01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e8b1d01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>The Political Economy of Low Carbon Energy in Kenya<\/h3><h5>Program Duration: 2013 \u2013 2014<br \/>Program Contacts for ATPS: Dr. Nicholas Ozor, Executive Director, ATPS.<br \/>Email:\u00a0<a class=\"email-link\" title=\"\" href=\"mailto:executivedirector@atpsnet.org\">executivedirector@atpsnet.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Program Coordinator: Dr. Nicholas Ozor<br \/>Grantor: Institute of Development Studies<br \/>Project Value: GBP 25,000<\/h5><h4>Background<\/h4><p>This study is a partnership project between the University of Sussex (Institute of Development Studies IDS) and the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS). The Study aims to understand the politics and political economy of Kenya\u2019s energy sector with a view to identifying key opportunities and barriers to the further development of renewable energies in the country. It explores the history and development of key energy initiatives, policies and regulations with the aim of understanding how relations of power, actor networks and interests and the role of key institutions enable or frustrate change. This is aimed at providing an understanding of the regime and landscape for the country\u2019s apparently successful Solar Home System.\u00a0<\/p><h4>The specific objectives are to establish:<\/h4><ul><li>The role of actors within the state: relationships between different ministries with responsibility in the energy policy domain: who wields most power over which policies, how and why?<\/li><li>The role of non-state actors: how powerful are business, NGO and other groups in shaping energy policy and the perceived costs and benefits of different technologies, policies and electrification strategies?<\/li><li>The role of external drivers- foreign investors, regional and international institutions, carbon and climate finance funding streams: how far do they shift incentives, change the balance of power within and beyond government in favour of some actors and energy options over others? How far does the Kenyan government have the power and autonomy to shape these flows in ways that reflect their development priorities?<\/li><li>The uniqueness of the political and economic context in Kenya which has enabled the success of initiatives such as Solar Home Systems and which conditions might be replicable in other countries in the region.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><h4>Methodology<\/h4><p>The key steps of the study are:<\/p><ul><li>Overview of the political economy of the energy sector in Kenya, drawing from existing literature.\u00a0<\/li><li>Stakeholder mapping, identifying key actors in the diffusion of SHSs in Kenya, through documents; discussions with the partners and researchers of the on-going CDKN project; and later triangulation.<\/li><li>Analysis of the role of these actors in (a) enabling this project to succeed (b) frustrating further progress (c) identifying future lessons.\u00a0<\/li><li>Draw conclusions leading to policy recommendations summarised in a report.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><h4>Outputs<\/h4><p><a href=\"https:\/\/atpsnet.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The_Political_Economy_of_Low_Carbon_Energy_in_Keny.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Case study report for CDKN on the political economy of energy in Kenya as it relates to this project- key conclusions plus reflections on the strengths and weaknesses of a \u2018political economy\u2019 analysis.<\/a><\/p><p>Joint journal article(s) involving the above collaborators.<\/p><p>Published IDS Working Paper on the political economy of low carbon energy in Kenya Available online at:\u00a0<a class=\"\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ids.ac.uk\/publications\/the-political-economy-of-low-carbon-energy-in-kenya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/opendocs.ids.ac.uk\/opendocs\/bitstream\/handle\/123456789\/4049\/Wp445.pdf?sequence=5<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Political Economy of Low Carbon Energy in Kenya Program Duration: 2013 \u2013 2014Program Contacts for ATPS: Dr. Nicholas Ozor, Executive Director, ATPS.Email:\u00a0executivedirector@atpsnet.org\u00a0\u00a0Program Coordinator: Dr. Nicholas OzorGrantor: Institute of Development StudiesProject Value: GBP 25,000 Background This study is a partnership project between the University of Sussex (Institute of Development Studies IDS) and the African Technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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