Abdul-Salam, YakubuPhimister, Euan2017-10-282017-10-282016-09Abdul-Salam, Y & Phimister, E 2016, 'How effective are heuristic solutions for electricity planning in developing countries', Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, vol. 55, pp. 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2016.04.004ORCID: /0000-0002-5784-4576/work/62171584ORCID: /0000-0002-6483-0113/work/79417661http://hdl.handle.net/2164/9521Acknowledgement The first author would like to acknowledge the University of Aberdeen and the Henderson Economics Research Fund for funding his PhD studies in the period 2011-2014 which formed the basis for the research presented in this paper. The first author would also like to acknowledge the Macaulay Development Trust which funds his postdoctoral fellowship with The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland. The authors thank two anonymous referees for valuable comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper. All usual caveats apply11583110engelectricityalgorithmsmixed integer programminggrid/off-gridMonte Carlo simulationParshall et al algorithmHB Economic TheoryHBJournal article10.1016/j.seps.2016.04.00455