Renewable Energy Enterprises in Emerging Markets Strategic and Operational Challenges

This book highlights the challenges faced by renewable energy enterprises (REEs) in emerging markets, by reflecting on the enterprises own stories and experiences.Research into REEs has focused largely on successful businesses and business models, and developed markets. With significant opportunities for renewable energy enterprise in emerging markets, this book presents a unique business-level perspective. It highlights the key barriers and outlines the strategic and operational solutions for success articulated by the entrepreneurs themselves. The research draws on interviews with entrepreneurs in twenty-eight emerging markets, including Barbados, Cambodia, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, India, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. The book concludes by summarising the key solutions for success and illustrating how successful REEs put them into practice.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of renewable energy, sustainable business and the sustainability agenda in emerging markets.

PrefacePART I. INTRODUCTIONSustainability and the Renewable Energy EnterpriseStudy I (2012-2016)Study II (2017-2018)Chapter 1. Renewable Energy Enterprises in Emerging MarketsOverview of Renewable Energy Sources, Technologies and EnterpriseRenewable Energy Enterprises in Emerging Markets are DifferentChapter 2. A Typology of Renewable Energy EnterprisesFour Types of Renewable Energy Enterprise: A Business Model TypologyA Regional Perspective of the Four Types of Renewable Energy EnterprisesInclusive Business ModelsPART II. THE CHALLENGES OF SELLING RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCTWhat is a Strategic Challenge?What is an Operational Challenge?What, exactly, is a Business Model in this Context?Chapter 3. Logistical Growing PainsGetting Renewable Energy Products to End-UsersStories from the Supply Chain for Renewable Energy ProductsSuccess in the Supply Chain for Renewable Energy ProductsChapter 4. How Renewable Energy Enterprises CompeteWhat it means to CompeteCompeting in the Renewable Energy Industry in Emerging MarketsMarket Niches for Renewable Energy Enterprise in Emerging MarketsChapter 5. The Aid-Centric Business ModelWhat is Aid?How Individual Enterprises Receive and Use AidIs Aid Good for Business?The Aid-Centric Business ModelA Proposed Aid-Independent Logic of Value CreationChapter 6. Defining and Measuring SuccessDefining SuccessAll about the MetricsThe Successful Renewable Energy Enterprise in Emerging MarketsPART III. CASE STUDIESCase Study 1. Power Providers, TanzaniaCase Study 2. A-Wing, IndonesiaAppendicesIndex

Dr Cle-Anne Gabriel is a researcher at The University of Queensland (UQ) Business School in Australia. She is UQ Business School's Director for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (UN PRME), and a Director of the North American Case Research Association (NACRA). She has worked on sustainable development projects and assignments funded by Australian Aid (AusAID), the European Union (EU), the Japanese Ministry for Environment and New Zealand's Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).