Addressing Energy Poverty in India: A systems perspective on the role of localization, affordability, and saturation in implementing solar technologies

Venkateswaran, Jayendran; Solanki, Chetan Singh; Werner, Kelsey; Yadama, Gautam N.

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2018.02.011

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“…Solar lanterns are the cheapest and quickest way of providing light in a village. However, solar home systems require well prepared awareness campaigns to be sustainable and successful [25].…”

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Flexible Demand for Optimzed Microgrid Design and Cost

Robert¹

2023

Renewable Energy - Recent Advances

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Although access to energy has been a major enabler for the development of our civilization, more than a billion people remain without access to electricity. Recent improvements in solar technology offer a unique opportunity to achieve global electrification. However, field studies have reported number of project failures. This chapter is dedicated to project developers, engineers, academicians and policymakers, who wish to contribute to rural development. In the first part, it recalls some important features of a well-thought rural electrification project, while proposing to involve students to liaise with local population. In a second part, it presents an original approach for achieving lowest cost solar microgrid design considering the random nature of solar energy and the users’ willingness to be flexible in their consumption. The inconvenience (loss of utility) for users has been modeled and the results suggest that rural users are likely to adapt their consumption to the availability of solar energy to reduce their electricity bill. Such a conclusion is likely to apply to interconnected power grid as renewable energy becomes more and more prominent in the energy mix and energy storage remains a costly challenge.

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Flexible Demand for Optimzed Microgrid Design and Cost

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2023

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“…They do not assess improved employability and income levels (Kapadia 2004), better quality of education (Owoeye 2016), and a better health delivery system (Cahill 2021), but these are important to understand the effects of energy access on communities. In addition, there are technological, financial, social, and institutional hurdles to renewable energy diffusion (Bhattarai and Risal 2009;Doukas and Ballesteros 2015;Venkateswaran et al 2018). Measures taken to address these barriers would help improve the accessibility and uptake of renewable energy solutions and benefits for end users.…”

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Pathways To Impact: Collaborating Toward an Energy Access Framework

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Suresh²,

Chen³

2023

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This guidebook elaborates on the process of developing a campaign-level collaborative framework with IKEA Foundation grantee partners who worked on various projects under the Good Cause Campaign (GCC). This framework is constructed to help explain how energy access interventions can impact developmental outcomes such as poverty reduction, improved educational attainment, better livelihood, and health services. It provides a way to monitor and evaluate the steps along the way to both developmental and humanitarian impacts.

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“…This was also found by Jain et al [15] using primary level data analysis from 6 different states. Energy poverty is high in highly populated states, which points out the population pressure on the energy infrastructure of these states [16]. The methodological differences in the assessment of energy poverty helped in finding different determining factors and consequences of energy poverty in the case of India.…”

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“…On a policy level, enhancement of the current production capacity of the country from different sources and development of supply infrastructure, especially to rural areas is important. The time required and investment outflow to these projects will determine the extent of the energy poverty alleviation drive [16]. In the case of electricity, Ghosh [19] states that higher demand from rural areas should be met with both increasing grid connectivity and the promotion of decentralized renewable energy sources.…”

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The Critical Minimum Effort for Energy Poverty Challenge in India

2021

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The Socio-Economic and Caste Census of 2011 shows the extent of deprivations of rural India. Around 73.4 % of families are residing in rural India, where over 77 million households depend on kerosene for lighting; 1 million use wood and as many as 1.2 million households in India remain completely in the dark. Improvement in - Access, Availability, Adequacy, and Quality of energy can contribute to poverty reduction from various aspects. From a policy-making perspective increasing access to modern energy services require, first, the integration of energy access into national development strategies, and then strong and sustainable financial, institutional, and technology frameworks must be set up. The restatement of the theory of critical minimum effort is to make a plan for the effort that needs to break the environment of inertia of energy poverty. This paper discusses the minimum effort necessary to achieve a steady secular supply of basic energy requirements for people in need. It is alarming fact that today billions of people lack access to the most basic energy services, electricity, and clean cooking facilities, and, worse, this situation is set to change very little over the next 20 years. This paper explains how to set the needed change in the orientation and execution for the service delivery mechanism of energy. Aims: The restatement of the theory of critical minimum effort as a plan to achieve a steady secular supply of basic energy requirements for people in need. Study Design: Descriptive analysis. Place and Duration of Study: Macro-level analysis on India based on Socio-Economic and caste census of 2011. Methodology: Review-driven theoretical analysis. Conclusion: Restates those large-scale actions are needed to take people out of the vicious circle of energy poverty.

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Addressing Energy Poverty in India: A systems perspective on the role of localization, affordability, and saturation in implementing solar technologies

Cited by 34 publications

References 30 publications

Flexible Demand for Optimzed Microgrid Design and Cost

Flexible Demand for Optimzed Microgrid Design and Cost

Pathways To Impact: Collaborating Toward an Energy Access Framework

The Critical Minimum Effort for Energy Poverty Challenge in India

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