Energy and Sustainable Futures: Proceedings of the 3rd ICESF, 2022 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783031309601
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

19.2 Methodology

The study methodology was in two stages, one, data collection and extraction and two, data analysis. Data collection was through observations, review of documents and in-depth interviews. The population that qualified as subjects for this study included all individuals that have expert knowledge and hold key positions in the energy sector, grid operator, and power generating company. In this case, the study used purposive sampling where subjects are selected based on some characteristic poses that are predetermined before the study [84]. This was also to identify respondents who would provide relevant and critical information that would serve to answer the questions of this study. For in-depth interviews, semi-structured interview guide was used to collect data for the status of NEP. To analyse data, both content and thematic analyses were used. To evaluate the potential risks to infrastructural and institutional resilience, the approaches of [37, 62] were adopted. In view of this, the capacity of the Policy to promote PSR was evaluated by examining diversity, exposure, and efficiency. These are functions of preparation, anticipation, absorption, adaptation and transformation. While the capacity of the Policy to promote infrastructural resilience was assessed by evaluating the level of technical policy implementations and through status of energy supply, institutional resilience’s capacity was determined through legal and capacity building policy implementations. This approach was adopted because effective address of preconditions that cause PS stresses is key to making the PS more resilient [14]. Technical implementations that were considered are energy access, off grid and energy efficiency targets. These targets and the status of electricity supply together entail the level of infrastructure preparedness to mitigate impacts of CC. In addition, these also determine the potential to absorb, adapt or transform under extreme PS stresses. Anticipatory governance and long-term policy vision are critical in the adjustment of current behaviour to address future PS challenges [37]. It is important, therefore, to evaluate legal implementations to address regulatory uncertainties that compromise infrastructure improvement and modernisation. Capacity building enables institutions in moderating future disruptions. It is important to note that this study’s scope was not to evaluate the provision of these variables in the Policy but their implementation to promote grid resilience. This is because preliminary policy review suggested that most of these are provided for. A key issue was to compare the provision against achieved targets (status of the NEP ). If implementation is lagging, then the Policy is failing to promote one of the key functions of resilience. To identify the challenges of the Policy, themes were generated from interview responses following this study’s investigations of the reasons for the implementation challenges. Solutions to the challenges were proposed by suggesting mitigation measures to the identified challenges, in addition to expert feedback. The major limitation of this approach was data scarcity. Some variables could not be extensively evaluated due to data availability challenges.

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