ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents an overview of some closing thoughts on key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book articulates the enormity of the energy access problem in Sub-Saharan Africa and calling for new scholarly thinking that matches the ambitions of contemporary policy commitments like SE4All. It demonstrates why the case of off-grid solar photovoltaic (PV) in Kenya cannot easily be dismissed as a 'unique and isolated exception'. Through detailed historical analysis of the Kenyan off-grid PV market, the book describes how socio-technical innovation systems might be understood to represent the kind of enabling environment within which sustainable technologies become more widely available and supplied in ways that are better attuned to the social practices and needs of potential users. The book focuses on explicitly pro-poor green transformations. It discusses that such transformations evolve through interventions at a systemic level, facilitating the development of appropriate capabilities around targeted technologies and specific social practices.
