When academia meets rural India: Lessons learnt from a MicroGrid implementation

Robert, Fabien Chidanand; Ramanathan, Ullas; Mukundan,; Durga, P; Mohan, Renjith

doi:10.1109/ghtc.2016.7857274

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“…The Live-in-Labs® program has been involved with the community since 2014 (Robert et al , 2016; Ragula et al , 2016). The most pressing need of the community was to diversify their income source.…”

Section: Experiences From the Field: Case Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability education and community development in higher education using participatory and case based approaches in India

Cornet,

Barpanda,

Guidi

et al. 2024

IJSHE

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Purpose This study aims at understanding how higher education institutions (HEIs) can contribute to sustainable development, by designing their programmes for bringing about a transformative impact on communities and students, and also to examine what alternative pedagogical approaches could be used for that. In the past decades, HEIs have increasingly created social innovation (SI) programmes, as a way to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. These community-oriented and field-based programmes are difficult to ally with conventional classroom education. This study explores how these programmes could integrate the participatory approach and what would be the benefits. It also investigates the effectiveness of the experiential learning approach for teaching sustainability. Design/methodology/approach A case study method is used to document SI projects initiated by an HEI programme in rural India. Findings It was found that the participatory approach contributes to empowering communities and also benefits the students in terms of academic, professional and personal growth. Empirical findings show that experiential learning is an efficient method to teach sustainability. Ultimately, both pedagogical approaches are found to be mutually beneficial. Originality/value This study fills a gap in the literature, by providing empirical evidence on how HEI can implement innovative educational strategies such as participatory approach and experiential learning in their programmes towards teaching sustainability. A conceptual model for HEI interested in developing similar programmes is also proposed. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is one of the first studies focusing on the context of Indian HEI.

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Section: Experiences From the Field: Case Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability education and community development in higher education using participatory and case based approaches in India

Cornet,

Barpanda,

Guidi

et al. 2024

IJSHE

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“…P2P energy trading platforms could be used as part of these initiatives to raise awareness and to incentivise local users to support them. The P2P energy trading pilot projects currently underway are focused on OECD power systems, but another potential application could be incentivising the formation of rural microgrids in developing countries [56].…”

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Using peer-to-peer energy-trading platforms to incentivize prosumers to form federated power plants

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Power networks are undergoing a fundamental transition, with traditionally passive consumers becoming 'prosumers' -proactive consumers with distributed energy resources, actively managing their consumption, production and storage of energy. A key question that remains unresolved is, how can we incentivise coordination between vast numbers of distributed energy resources, each with different owners and characteristics? Virtual power plants and peer-to-peer energy trading offer different sources of value to prosumers and the power network and have been proposed as different potential structures for future prosumer electricity markets. In this Perspective, we argue they can be combined to capture the benefits of both. We thus propose the concept of the federated power plant, a virtual power plant formed through peer-to-peer transactions between self-organising prosumers. This addresses social, institutional and economic issues faced by top-down strategies for coordinating virtual power plants, while unlocking additional value for peer-to-peer energy trading.

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“…Outdoor light contributes to establishing a general sense of safety. Outdoor light can also keep wild animals away from habitations [6]. Other key usages are solar pumping to provide access to water [7] and income generating activities.…”

Section: Defining Rural Electrification Goals For the Communitymentioning

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“…Partnering with an NGO, more than 1000 students, faculty and staff, from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University) have already had the opportunity to serve these villages, living among villagers and experiencing their life. Among the many students' feedbacks, three points are to be highlighted [6]:…”

Section: The Opportunity To Involve Youth and Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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When academia meets rural India: Lessons learnt from a MicroGrid implementation

Cited by 14 publications

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Sustainability education and community development in higher education using participatory and case based approaches in India

Sustainability education and community development in higher education using participatory and case based approaches in India

Using peer-to-peer energy-trading platforms to incentivize prosumers to form federated power plants

Flexible Demand for Optimzed Microgrid Design and Cost

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