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Energy is an essential resource to improve the quality of human life, and to enable both societal development and economic growth. Universal access to energy requires adopting a comprehensive approach to developing and deploying clean, affordable, and reliable solutions in a sustainable and scalable way. These solutions involve a large range of appropriate technologies from energy production, distribution, and storage, to safe and efficient usage. This comprehensive outlook requires considering the whole life cycle of the products, systems, and services as well as the entire value chain, including all the stakeholders, from global and local players in the private sector to public authorities and civil society. The four contributions of Part II (Chaps. 3–6) describe some key learnings and success factors to provide access to energy to remote or resource-poor communities from a global perspective.
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The social enterprise combines commercial and social goals, with emphasis on the latter. It makes use of traditional venture capital model, based on simple risk and reward, while consciously striving to maximize its social impact. The concept of “Scaling Up Business Solutions to Social Problems” is described more thoroughly in Kayser and Budinich (2015), with several examples in the energy sector.
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In The Power of Impact Investing, Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin and Margot Brandenburg (2014) explain what impact investing is, how it compares to philanthropy and traditional investments, where opportunities are evolving around the world, and how to get started.
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Klaiber, B. (2015). Holistic and Systemic Approaches to Implement Energy Access Solutions in the Global South. In: Hostettler, S., Gadgil, A., Hazboun, E. (eds) Sustainable Access to Energy in the Global South. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20209-9_2
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