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Bridging the divide
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Sunil Puri, Refocus correspondent in India, highlights the ground-level scenarios, key roadblocks in country-wide rural electrification initiatives, and the government strategies to overcome these roadblocks as discussed by the authors.About:
This article is published in Refocus.The article was published on 2006-07-01. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rural electrification.read more
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Review of barriers to the dissemination of decentralized renewable energy systems
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the available literature dealing with the barriers to the dissemination of decentralized renewable energy systems is presented, which includes technical, economic, institutional, socio-cultural and environmental barriers.
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Biomass energy experiments in rural India : insights from learning-based development approaches and lessons for strategic niche management
TL;DR: In this paper, the suitability and limitations of the Strategic Niche Management framework in the context of emerging economies of South and East Asia is investigated and several learning-based approaches to development projects that are part of the academic and practitioner field of development studies are explored.
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Comparing the cost of electricity sourced from a fuel cell-based renewable energy system and the national grid to electrify a rural health centre in India: A case study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the costs of a decentralised renewable energy system and providing electricity from a grid source and determined the critical or break-even distance that makes electricity from such a system cost effective over that from a conventional grid source.
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Energy for rural India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how rural electrification could be achieved in India using different energy sources and what the effects for climate change mitigation could be, and concluded that diesel systems tend to have the highest CO2 emissions, followed by grid systems.
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