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Rethinking Access to Clean Energy for Climate Change Mitigation in Tanzania.

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dc.contributor.author Muhihi, Bikolimana G
dc.date.accessioned 2024-09-04T12:55:48Z
dc.date.available 2024-09-04T12:55:48Z
dc.date.issued 2024
dc.identifier.citation Muhihi B. G. (2024). Rethinking Access to Clean Energy for Climate Change Mitigation in Tanzania. Journal of Energy Research and Reviews Vol. 16(1), pp. 1-11, en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2581-8368
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/1453
dc.description A full text article from the collection of Community and Rural Development en_US
dc.description.abstract The effect of climate change is visibly spread with no boundaries all over the world. With multiple effects of climate change, its mitigation mechanisms vary. However, striving for universal access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable clean energy is arguably one of the significant sought mitigation strategies, especially in the context of Africa. This raises concern about whether the road to clean energy in the work of mitigating the devastating climate change is eloquent or a myth. Using ARIMA, the paper forecasted access to electricity to calibrate the reduction of over-dependence on climate change-inducing energy sources such as firewood and charcoal. The paper used time series data from 1992 to 2022, with a forecast of 10 years. The results show that climate change mitigation through clean energy is far from the reality, the level of future access cannot be used to define progress in mitigating climate change. A large percentage of people will remain unconnected while few will be disconnected due to various reasons such as unaffordability and reliability of electricity supply. Along the energy ladder, consumers are likely to remain at the base where unclean energy sources dominate. People are likely to continue with the course of depending more on unclean energy sources thus, making climate change mitigation through access to electricity a less reality, a myth in such short. An equation of the available potential resources for producing more and more reliable modern energy should be balanced by the utility supplier. Expanding the production and distribution levels should also be on a stage. The energy utility should change the monopoly system in the energy sector and embrace innovation and collaboration at large. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Journal of Energy Research and Reviews en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol. 16;1
dc.subject Energy en_US
dc.subject Access en_US
dc.subject Arima en_US
dc.subject Clean energy en_US
dc.subject Electricity en_US
dc.subject Climate change en_US
dc.subject Mitigation en_US
dc.title Rethinking Access to Clean Energy for Climate Change Mitigation in Tanzania. en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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