‘Just’ access to electricity: Energy justice in Indonesia’s rural electrification (LISDES) program

Expanding Electricity Access to Remote Areas: Off-Grid Rural Electrification in Developing Countries

Development: The World Bank Group’s mission is to work for a world without poverty. An important part of this mission is expanding access to modern energy services for an estimated two billion people who still lack such services (World Bank 1996, ESMAP 2000c). Expanded access to energy services is inexorably linked to today’s transforming energy sector. Although ongoing reforms are showing succ...

From açaı́ to access: distributed electrification in rural Brazil

Purpose – To rigorously examine success and failure in the use of small scale technologies for rural electrification. Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured primary field interviews plus secondary sources. Findings – Business model differences and influence of institutions important are important for understanding success and failure in rural electrification and the contribution rural el...

Energy access problem of the poor in India: Is rural electrification a remedy?

India accounts for a third of the world’s population without access to electricity and about 40% of those without access to modern energy. Such a situation exists despite several initiatives and policies to support poor households. Alarmed by the gravity of the situation, the government has recently announced an ambitious programme of rural electrification. This paper looks into the energy acce...

Rural Electrification

Distributed Energy Storage for Rural Electrification by Microgrid

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to study how to apply distributed storage into a photovoltaic microgrid for rural villages with electrical network powered by renewable sources and small thermal generators. Using distributed storage helps to reduce Joule losses and voltage drops. This allows reducing the cable’s section or the power source’s size. The main work will focus on optimizing the...