Kirsten Ulsrud is a postdoc research fellow in human geography at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. Charles Muchunku is an independent renewable energy consultant in Kenya with 15 years of experience in the renewable energy sector in Eastern and Southern Africa. Debajit Palit is an associate director and senior fellow at the Rural Energy and Livelihoods Division at TERI in India, with 20 years of experience working in the field of clean energy access, rural electrification policy and regulation, distributed generation, and solar photovoltaics. Gathu Kirubi is a lecturer at the Department of Environmental Sciences at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a PhD from University of California, Berkeley on off-grid rural electrification in Africa.