Increasing rural electrification through connection campaigns

Blankenship, Brian; Kennedy, Ryan; Mahajan, Aseem; Wong, J.Y.; Urpelainen, Johannes

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111291

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“…Hence, the rural population must have reliable access to electricity to improve its quality of life. However, many of the barriers to achieving this goal are highlighted in [30]. According to Blankenship et al, obstacles such as the limited power generation capacity of utility companies, corruption, geographical remoteness, and the poor economic condition of residents are a few of the barriers preventing the rural parts of India from having reliable electricity [30].…”

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“…However, many of the barriers to achieving this goal are highlighted in [30]. According to Blankenship et al, obstacles such as the limited power generation capacity of utility companies, corruption, geographical remoteness, and the poor economic condition of residents are a few of the barriers preventing the rural parts of India from having reliable electricity [30]. Though the obstacles exist, lessons can be learned from the way it was tackled across the world.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The system also enabled exporting 1.68 million kWh of electricity to the Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation (GETCO) grid [29]. Besides the studies focusing on India, agrivoltaics were researched and adopted in many countries worldwide, namely Italy, China, France, Germany, the US, and several others [30].…”

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Agrivoltaics: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Approach for Indian Farmers

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Sharma

John

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India is a leader when it comes to agriculture. A significant part of the country’s population depends on agriculture for livelihood. However, many of them face challenges due to using unreliable farming techniques. Sometimes the challenges increase to the extent that they commit suicide. Besides, India is highly populated, and its population is steadily increasing, requiring its government to grow its GDP and increase its energy supply proportionately. This paper reviews integrating solar farming with agriculture, known as Agrivoltaics, as a Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) option for Indian farmers. This study is further supported by the Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis of agrivoltaics. Using the SWOT analysis, this article presents how agrivoltaics can make agriculture sustainable and reliable. This paper identifies rural electrification, water conservation, yield improvement, sustainable income generation, and reduction in the usage of pesticides as the strengths of agrivoltaics. Similarly, the paper presents weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to agrivoltaics in India. The research concludes with the findings that agrivoltaics have the potential of meeting multiple objectives such as meeting global commitments, offering employment, providing economic stability, increasing clean energy production capacity, conserving natural resources, and succeeding in several others. The paper also includes a discussion about the findings, suggestions, and implications of adopting agrivoltaics on a large scale in India.

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Section: Strengths 411 Rural Electrificationmentioning

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Agrivoltaics: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Approach for Indian Farmers

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“…This perspective opens the door to a potential discussion regarding the application of foreign solutions in domestic electromobility development programs, such as incentives or energy infrastructure modernization [47] and national strategies [48,49]. On the other hand, potential drivers of electric vehicles are concerned about the lack of charging stations [50,51], while facilities owners, where stations would be useful, are hesitant to build because of the low number of electric cars [52]. Although there are multiple challenges related to very specific solutions related to the availability of electricity production from different sources or to the energy storage for charging stations, they are not subject of this research.…”

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Charging Stations and Electromobility Development: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

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The Industry 4.0 idea influences the development of both charging stations and electromobility development, due to its emphasis on device communication, cooperation, and proximity. Therefore, in electromobility development, growing attention is paid to chargers’ infrastructure density and automotive electric vehicles’ accessibility. The main goal of this scientific paper was to present the electromobility development represented in the number of charging stations and its infrastructure development calculations. In this study, the sequence of methods was used to indicate and explore the research gap. The first was the Structured Literature Review (SLR) variation method. The second method was the classical tabular comparison of gathered results. The third research method was a cluster analysis based on secondary data with cross-country comparisons of the number of charging stations and electric cars. Therefore, this paper presents a theoretical discussion and practical business implications based on the achieved results of clusters and rankings. The main finding of this paper is that charging stations play a pivotal role in electromobility development in countries with already developed road infrastructure and maritime transportation. The charging stations can support energetic infrastructure, especially in countries with vast geographical distances. The charging stations and electric vehicles statistics presented in ratios and ranks proved similarities in the electromobility development patterns in the analyzed countries. This paper also presents the limitations of the performed study and identifies possible future research avenues.

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“…Unawareness of government welfare and relief programmes is one of the major informational constraint faced by the farmers in adoption of CSA technologies [7]. According to Blankenship et al, [8] obstacles such as the limited power generation capacity of utility companies, corruption, geographical remoteness, and the poor economic condition of residents are a few of the barriers preventing the rural parts of India from having reliable electricity. Credit constraints are significant in adoption of CSA technologies as only 15.00 per cent of the farmers have access to credit according to the findings of Ifeoma et al, [9].…”

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Constraints for Adoption of CSA Technologies and the Suggested Measures

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Asokhan²,

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The adverse effects of climate change can be mitigated through apt interventions like Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA). The adoption of CSA technologies by the farmers is muddled because of the constraints faced by them in different contexts. The motive of the study was to identify the key constraints that inhibit the adoption of CSA technologies by farmers. Suggestions proposed by the farmers for increasing the adoption rates of the CSA technologies were also highlighted in the study. Four blocks with less average rainfall from the climate vulnerable district of Andhra Pradesh were chosen for the study. Two villages from each block were selected based on the highest number of farmers. Multi-stage proportionate random sampling was adopted for the study. Data was collected through open ended questions by personal interview methos. The responses were categorised and subjected to frequency and percentage analysis. The results demonstrated that lack of storage facilities was the major constraint faced by majority (85.71%) of the farmers followed by the uncertain returns and results of the CSA technologies (79.50%) as perceived by the farmers. Government and policy interventions, use of extension approaches in right time might help in overcoming the constraints. Providing trainings on CSA (83.23%) was the most suggested measure as it helps the farmers to increase their knowledge and clear their doubts on the outcomes of CSA. Demonstration of CSA technologies to the farmer improves their knowledge and skill.

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Increasing rural electrification through connection campaigns

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

Agrivoltaics: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Approach for Indian Farmers

Agrivoltaics: A Climate-Smart Agriculture Approach for Indian Farmers

Charging Stations and Electromobility Development: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Constraints for Adoption of CSA Technologies and the Suggested Measures

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