Mutual Support—Modern Energy Planning Inclusive of Cooking—A Review of Research into Action in Africa and Asia since 2018

Simon Batchelor (), Ed Brown, Nigel Scott, Matthew Leach, Anna Clements and Jon Leary
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Simon Batchelor: Gamos, Reading RG1 4LS, UK
Ed Brown: School of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK
Nigel Scott: Gamos, Reading RG1 4LS, UK
Matthew Leach: Gamos, Reading RG1 4LS, UK
Anna Clements: Gamos, Reading RG1 4LS, UK
Jon Leary: Gamos, Reading RG1 4LS, UK

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 16, 1-29

Abstract: This paper is a review of research undertaken, and subsequent policy change enacted, in the years 2018 to 2022 regarding the integration of cooking loads and needs into modern energy planning. Building on an earlier paper which described how the dominant global approaches to tackling the enduring problem of biomass-fuelled cooking was failing, and how a new UK Aid programme (Oct 2018) would be seeking to intentionally change international energy policy towards cooking and enable a significant transition in energy use, in this paper we review whether this strategy is being adopted by researchers, governments, and the private sector across the world and whether it is likely to make a significant contribution to the fulfilment of Sustainable Development Goal 7. In particular, the call is for integrated planning of modern energy inclusive of cooking loads—the potential ‘Mutual Support’ that both can lend to each other. The review considers the international commitments made by donors and governments to this end, the research that positions the use of modern energy as a cost-effective proposition, the urbanisation and societal changes reinforcing such planning, and positions the review in the light of climate change and the need to reach net zero carbon by 2050.

Keywords: biomass cooking; SDG 7; grid extension; off-grid electricity; renewable energy; climate change policies; integrated planning; urbanisation; Africa; developing Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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