Renewable Energy Utilization Scenarios: A Case for Ires in Developing Countries

Ramakumar, R.

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“…Many rural electrification programmes are top-down in approach. Often, huge sums of money are spent to extend grid to selected rural areas without any consideration to the availability of adequate generation capacity (Ramakumar, 2007).…”

Section: Rural Electrification Versus Energisation -A Contextual Accountmentioning

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“…It embraces electrification, and emphasises on the provision of the composite varied energy services, based on the needs of the rural beneficiary communities. Unlike rural electrification, the central theme of energisation focuses on matching the needs of end-users of energy services with available resources (Ramakumar, 2007). Therefore, notwithstanding the approaches (centralised, decentralised, or both) used to supply energy services to beneficiary communities, the existence of such services are usually fulfilling the expressed energy needs of the communities, hence, will have more support from them.…”

Section: Rural Electrification Versus Energisation -A Contextual Accountmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Shifting the Policy Paradigm of Solar Photovoltaic and Other Renewable Energy Technologies Supply in Rural Ghana

Bawakyillenuo

2011

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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Energy, inter alia, other structures, have been sine qua non to socioeconomic development, enhancement of rural production and food security, improvements in healthcare and standards of living in human societies. Currently, while energy can help extricate rural societies in the developing world from poverty and augment development, they can only be realised through the implementation of effective energy policy approaches. Employing instruments from both qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse data gathered from two solar PV projects' sites in Ghana as case studies, the paper explores the interface between the policy approaches that have been used for the supply of electricity to rural Ghana, and the energy needs of these rural communities. The paper concludes that, due to the prevalence of poverty among rural societies in Ghana and other parts of the developing world, energisation and not electrification, is the optimal policy paradigm that will underpin rural socioeconomic development and the adoption of renewable energy technologies (RETs).

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Section: Rural Electrification Versus Energisation -A Contextual Accountmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rural Electrification Versus Energisation -A Contextual Accountmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shifting the Policy Paradigm of Solar Photovoltaic and Other Renewable Energy Technologies Supply in Rural Ghana

Bawakyillenuo

2011

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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Renewable Energy Utilization Scenarios: A Case for Ires in Developing Countries

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Shifting the Policy Paradigm of Solar Photovoltaic and Other Renewable Energy Technologies Supply in Rural Ghana

Shifting the Policy Paradigm of Solar Photovoltaic and Other Renewable Energy Technologies Supply in Rural Ghana

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