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Baker, Lucy and Burton, Jesse (2023). From the minerals–energy complex to a just transition? In: Mohamed, Seeraj; Ngoma, Amuzweni and Baloyi, Basani eds. The Evolving Structure of South Africa’s Economy: Faultlines and Futures. Johannesburg: Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), pp. 270–296.

Baker, Lucy; Burton, Jesse and Trollip, Hilton (2020). The Energy Politics of South Africa. In: Hancock, Kathleen J. and Allison, Juliann Emmons eds. The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press, pp. 711–729.

Baker, Lucy and Burton, Jesse (2018). The politics of procurement and the low-carbon transition in South Africa. In: Goldthau, Andreas; Keating, Michael F. and Kuzemko, Caroline eds. Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources. Handbooks of Research on International Political Economy series. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 91–106.

Baker, Lucy (2017). Post-Apartheid Electricity Policy and the Emergence of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Sector. In: Arent, Douglas; Arndt, Channing; Miller, Mackay; Tarp, Finn and Zinaman, Owen eds. The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 371–390.

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Baker, L. (2016). Sustainability Transitions and the Politics of Electricity Planning in South Africa. In: Brauch, H. G.; Spring, Ú. O.; Grin, J. and Scheffran, J. eds. Handbook on Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, 10. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 793–809.

Fajardo, A.; Baker, L. H.; Sesan, T.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Kerr, D.; Katyega, M. and Barnett, A. (2025). Business models and access to finance for mini grid development in sub-Saharan Africa. Energy for Sustainable Development, 85, article no. 101666.

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Sesan, Temilade; Fajardo, Adriana; Baker, Lucy; Uduka, Unico; Kausya, Mourice; Kerr, Daniel; Onsongo, Elsie; Ugwu, Okechukwu; Eleri, Ewah and Bhattacharyya, Subhes (2024). Strengthening commercial viability through greater inclusiveness in rural mini-grid deployment: Insights from Nigeria and Kenya. Energy for Sustainable Development, 83, article no. 101584.

Sesan, Temilade; Uduka, Unico; Baker, Lucy; Ugwu, Okechukwu; Eleri, Ewah and Bhattacharyya, Subhes (2024). Exploring the connections between mini-grid market regulation and energy access expansion: The case of Nigeria. Energy Policy, 184, article no. 113891.

Essex, Stephen; Caprotti, Federico; de Groot, Jiska; Phillips, Jon; Baker, Lucy; Wolpe, Peta and Reddy, Yachika (2024). The ‘capability’ of South African energy governance to deliver urban sustainable transitions. Urban Research and Practice, 17(4) pp. 515–542.

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Baker, Lucy (2023). New frontiers of electricity capital: energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. New Political Economy, 28(2) pp. 206–222.

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Baker, Lucy (2022). Procurement, finance and the energy transition: Between global processes and territorial realities. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(4) pp. 1738–1764.

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Baker, Lucy; Hook, Andrew and Sovacool, Benjamin K. (2021). Power struggles: Governing renewable electricity in a time of technological disruption. Geoforum, 118 pp. 93–105.

Caprotti, Federico; Essex, Stephen; Phillips, Jon; de Groot, Jiska and Baker, Lucy (2020). Scales of governance: Translating multiscalar transitional pathways in South Africa's energy landscape. Energy Research and Social Science, 70, article no. 101700.

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Baker, Lucy and Phillips, Jon (2019). Tensions in the transition: The politics of electricity distribution in South Africa. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(1) pp. 177–196.

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Kirshner, Joshua; Baker, Lucy; Smith, Adrian and Bulkeley, Harriet (2019). A regime in the making? Examining the geographies of solar PV electricity in Southern Africa. Geoforum, 103 pp. 114–125.

Baker, Lucy (2018). Of embodied emissions and inequality: Rethinking energy consumption. Energy Research & Social Science, 36 pp. 52–60.

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Baker, Lucy and Sovacool, Benjamin K. (2017). The political economy of technological capabilities and global production networks in South Africa's wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) industries. Political Geography, 60 pp. 1–12.

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Sovacool, Benjamin K.; Burke, Matthew; Baker, Lucy; Kotikalapudi, Chaitanya Kumar and Wlokas, Holle (2017). New frontiers and conceptual frameworks for energy justice. Energy Policy, 105 pp. 677–691.

Baker, Lucy (2017). Commercial-scale renewable energy in South Africa and its progress to date. IDS Bulletin, 48(5-6) pp. 101–118.

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Power, Marcus; Newell, Peter; Baker, Lucy; Bulkeley, Harriet; Kirshner, Joshua and Smith, Adrian (2016). The political economy of energy transitions in Mozambique and South Africa: The role of the Rising Powers. Energy Research and Social Science, 17 pp. 10–19.

Baker, Lucy (2015). The evolving role of finance in South Africa's renewable energy sector. Geoforum, 64 pp. 146–156.

Baker, Lucy; Newell, Peter and Phillips, Jon (2014). The Political Economy of Energy Transitions: The Case of South Africa. New Political Economy, 19(6) pp. 791–818.

Baker, Lucy (2014). Renewable energy in South Africa's minerals-energy complex: a ‘low carbon’ transition? Review of African Political Economy, 42(144) pp. 245–261.

Newell, Peter; Jenner, Nicky and Baker, Lucy (2009). Governing clean development: A framework for analysis. Development Policy Review, 27(6) pp. 717–739.