
Setu PelzInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis | IIASA · Energy Program
Setu Pelz
Doctor of Philosophy
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Equity is a cornerstone of global climate policy, yet differing perspectives mean that international agreement on how to allocate mitigation efforts remains elusive. A rich literature informs this question, but a gap remains in approaches that appropriately consider non-CO2 emissions and their warming contributions. In this study, we address this g...
Fairness considerations have long been central to the international climate change mitigation discourse, generating numerous scientific and philosophical debates. Yet, there remains a pressing need for practical guidance on developing assertions of fairness in national mitigation contributions. The Paris Agreement mandates that subsequent nationall...
Projections of future income distributions at subnational levels are becoming increasingly important for a variety of analyses and evaluations. However, relevant datasets are currently limited. This study presents a methodological framework that introduces machine learning algorithms to a top-down approach used for generating income distribution da...
In this work, we explore how locally led innovations can advance sustainable energy access in low-income regions of Africa. Given the emphasis of the Sustainable Development Goals on the importance of affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy, we critically assess how local innovations can address the unique challenges of regions characterized b...
Fairness considerations have been central to the international climate change mitigation discourse, generating numerous theoretical and philosophical debates. In this article, we address the pressing need for practical guidance on navigating this landscape in assessing relative mitigation efforts. The Paris Agreement mandates that updates to Nation...
Current emissions trends are likely to deplete a 1.5°C consistent carbon budget soon after the year 2030, resulting in a period of overshoot. To navigate responsibilities for and during this period we contrast ‘fair’ allocations of a remaining carbon budget with projected carbon emissions trends until net-zero. We term this measure the ‘net-zero ca...
Equity is a cornerstone of global climate policy, yet no international agreement has managed to agree on how to allocate mitigation efforts across countries. While a rich literature informs these deliberations, there remains a gap in approaches that appropriately consider non-CO 2 emissions and their warming contributions. In this study, we define...
We welcome the analysis of Semieniuk et al. (1) as an additional sensitivity to illustrate a more extreme distribution of regional contributions to climate mitigation investments that supports our main conclusion regarding the North-South divide in mitigation investment capabilities. In response to Semieniuk et al. we would like to first point out...
We present a household and enterprise energy survey dataset collected within the framework of the PeopleSuN project in Nigeria in 2021. Across three Nigerian geopolitical zones, a total of 3,599 households and 1,122 small and medium-sized enterprises were surveyed. The sample is designed to be representative of rural and peri-urban grid-electrified...
Empirical evaluation of the household-level economic effects of electricity access in rural regions has challenged researchers due to data scarcity issues and identification challenges. Previous studies provide mixed evidence depending on the context and the empirical approach adopted. Continued efforts towards a robust understanding of this linkag...
Improving access to energy services among the underserved requires understanding the status quo in energy access and estimating future energy requirements of energy service provision. In this paper, we present a novel survey dataset collected in 2021 within the framework of the PeopleSuN project. Across three Nigerian geopolitical zones, a total of...
Current mitigation finance flows are inadequate and unfair
Household energy consumption modeling often focusses on fuel and technology, without taking into account the purposes of using energy. In this study, we examine factors associated with household energy service and home appliance choices from the perspective of energy-related well-being. Using a choice model specification and a microdata for China's...
Productive electricity use is one channel by which improvements in electricity supply contribute to economic development. Literature in this context focusses typically on larger more established firms. Here we describe electricity supply, use and preferences among micro- and small-enterprises (MSEs), which are important providers of livelihoods in...
The reported effects of electrification on rural entrepreneurship are mixed, with recent studies describing heterogeneity in outcomes and methodological challenges in attributing causal effects. Furthermore, the debate largely focuses on performance outcomes, rather than supply- and demand-side barriers to productive electricity use itself. In this...
Global progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 7.1: ‘By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services’ continues to be measured by mere access to energy carriers, using binary indicators that inadequately reflect the multi-dimensional nature of the goal. In this work, we describe and apply an alternative fra...
It is estimated that one in three off-grid households globally will use off-grid solar by 2020; however, the off-grid system still suffers from problems, the main ones being capacity limitation and ensuring energy efficiency (EE) amid operation and maintenance or user errors, a topic that in the past has often been overlooked. This study proposes a...
Rural energy access in India has improved steadily over the last decade. This progress is attributed to national energy reforms that aim to not only expand access to grid electricity and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) but also to improve quality of access. Considering the historical caste-based energy access disparities unique to the Indian context,...
Equitable energy supply planning is nearly impossible in regions with limited data availability. Lack of representation among marginalised populations can perpetuate existing structural and socio-cultural inequities, despite aggregate improvements to energy supply. In Nepal, this represents an acute challenge for the 460 rural municipalities recent...
Household electrification aims to provide populations with access to a wide range of energy services for social and economic development, ranging from lighting to electric cooking. Electrification policy has historically focused on grid connections, however, rather than household capabilities to satisfy energy service needs. We explore a representa...
Electrification efforts have long been a centralized, politicized and bureaucratic process heavily dependent on central grid extension. However, grid connection may not guarantee reliable supply and even grid-connected households can remain in lower tiers of electrification. By promoting the integration of solar home systems (SHS) in electrificatio...
The achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is heavily influenced by access to data: Data is necessary to assess the current status quo as well as to measure progress and to find opportune contextualized solutions for development challenges. Specifically, the lack of energy access (as defined in SDG7) is an immense bo...
Recent efforts to measure energy poverty more comprehensively attempt to redress the shortcomings of binary metrics that remain in common use. However, significant challenges remain both with the construction of the new measurement frameworks and their application. The paper presents an analysis of recent multidimensional measurement approaches and...
The global off-grid energy and policy landscape has undergone a profound transformation on different levels during the last decade, leading to new empirical problems and research challenges for the emerging academic community working on access to energy. In this paper, the research group Microenergy Systems outlines and discusses avenues for future...
This paper introduces a new, transformative energy research agenda. A group of researchers has developed a novel approach to tackle the particularities of energy access development in the Global South from a nexus perspective. An interdisciplinary team will use a set of common and specific action-oriented methodologies in order to find sustainable,...