In many countries of the Global South, energy infrastructure is holey,
unreliable or simply not existent. This leads to different kinds of
severe problems. Just to name a few: Family members, mostly women, spend
hours every day to collect firewood for cooking. In many cases, they
suffer under pulmonary diseases, because they have no access to clean
cooking facilities. And companies are less productive without access to
electricity. Students of the Joint International Master on Sustainable
Development worked on energy access scale-up projects during their third
semester at Leipzig University. In this semester, students are requested
to work on an "integration project": integrating various aspects of
sustainable development in a particular case study. The class of 2017
approached energy access from the interdisciplinary perspective of
sustainable development, anchored however in the field of Economics and
Management Science to ensure feasibility of their work. This present
edition of Studies in Infrastructure and Resources Management looks at
their work in two different energy access scale-up projects in the
sub-Saharan countries Nigeria and Senegal.