Helene Ahlborg

2025

Empowering All: Battling exclusion in energy transitions

2025

Conceptualising energy geographies in East Africa: A research agenda for exploring spatial dimensions of renewable energy transitions

2025

“We don't have time”: How imaginaries of urgent energy system change marginalise locally driven pathways

2025

Insights around energy policy challenges hindering effective energy transition in Rwanda

2024

Household energy choices: New empirical evidence and policy implications for sustainable behaviour

2024

Technological power, complex systems, and boundary objects in global energy transitions

2024

A conceptual analysis of gendered energy care work and epistemic injustice through a case study of Zanzibar’s Solar Mamas

2024

Thirty-five years of research on energy and power: A landscape analysis

Dismantling Power and Bringing Reflexivity into the Eco-modern Home

2023

Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy

2023

Stakeholder-student interactions in engineering education: involving busy experts in project-based courses

Introducing Uncertainty. Community Driven Development and Local Collective Action Capacity

2022

Stimulating competition, diversification, or re-enforcing entrepreneurial barriers? Exploring small-scale electricity systems and gender-inclusive entrepreneurship

2022

A global super-grid: sociotechnical drivers and barriers

Chimeras of Resource Geographies: unbounding ontologies and knowing nature

2021

Progress for On-Grid Renewable Energy Systems: Identification of Sustainability Factors for Small-Scale Hydropower in Rwanda

2020

Report from scoping of innovation hubs across Africa. Profiling best practices to inform establishment of an energy innovation hub at the University of Rwanda

Anchoring innovations in oscillating domestic spaces: Why sanitation service offerings fail in informal settlements

Approach for flexible and adaptive distribution and transformation design in rural electrification and its implications

Entrepreneurial use of context for technological system creation and expansion: The case of blockchain-based peer-to-peer electricity trading

2019

Inclusiveness by design? Reviewing sustainable electricity access and entrepreneurship from a gender perspective

2019

Bringing technology into social-ecological systems research-Motivations for a socio-technical-ecological systems approach

2018

Powering institutions for development - Organizational strategies for decentralized electricity provision

2018

Theorizing power in political ecology: the where of power in resource governance projects

Three electricity futures: Monitoring the emergence of alternative system architectures

Rethinking the sustainability and institutional governance of electricity access and mini-grids: Electricity as a common pool resource

Electricity access and rural development: Review of complex socio-economic dynamics and casual diagrams for more appropriate energy modelling

2018

Changing energy geographies: The political effects of a small-scale electrification project

2017

Institution building in challenging contexts – energy for development in Tanzania

Ecology and sociotechnical systems research – motivations for theoretical and methodological integration across fields

2017

Towards a conceptualization of power in energy transitions

Powering institutions – credibility, enforcement and legitimacy

2016

Flexible distribution design in microgrids for dynamic power demand in low-income communities

2015

Provision of electricity to African households: The importance of democracy and institutional quality

2015

Walking along the lines of power. A systems approach to understanding co-emergence of society, technology and nature in processes of rural electrification

Towards a conceptualization of power and micro-level politics in energy transitions

2015

Small-scale hydropower in Africa: Socio-technical designs for renewable energy in Tanzanian villages

Theorizing power in political ecology: a case study of rural electrification and technology development in Tanzania

2015

Technology and social-ecological change: Scale mismatch, synergy and conflict in poor rural communities

2014

Changing rural economies in Tanzania following small-scale electrification. Opportunities and challenges coming with hydropower development in farmer communities: The Mawengi hydropower scheme. Report from Stakeholder Workshop held in Dar es Salaam, 6 May 2014

Drivers and barriers to rural electrification in Tanzania and Mozambique - grid-extension, off-grid, and renewable energy technologies

2012

Drivers and Barriers to Successful Rural Electrification in Tanzania. Report from Stakeholder Workshop held in Dar es Salaam, 23rd of April 2012

2012

Mismatch Between Scales of Knowledge in Nepalese Forestry: Epistemology, Power, and Policy Implications

2012

Electricity for better lives in rural Tanzania and Mozambique. Understanding and addressing the challenges

Drivers and barriers to diffusion, implementation and management of renewable energy systems in rural Tanzania and Mozambique – interaction between stakeholders

Drivers and barriers to rural electrification in Tanzania and Mozambique – grid extension, off-grid and renewable energy sources

Drivers and barriers to rural electrification in rural Tanzania and Mozambique – interaction between stakeholders

Förnybara energikällors inverkan på de svenska miljömålen

2009

Jämställdhet ger bättre klimat – genusperspektiv nödvändigt för att lösa klimatfrågan

A background on social context and renewable energy sources in Mozambique and Tanzania - An initial report from the STEEP-RES project