100% Rural Electrification in India: Myth or Reality?

Agrawal, Atul; Kumar, Anil; Rao, T. J.

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-9310-5_6

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“…It would be interesting to analyse the welfare effects of moving towards the more desirable Q3. Interestingly, [32] reported financial strain in surveyed households (Uttar Pradesh and Bihar) due to irregular bill collection and the absence (presence) of (faulty) meters.…”

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Reforming Electricity Access and End-Use Efficiency Policies in India – A Social Welfare Perspective

Aditya,

Jaipuria,

Dadabada

et al. 2023

E3S Web Conf.

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Social welfare has been believed to be a trickle-down effect of power sector reform policies, and there have been extensive debates on whether the trickle-down happens in reality. Such perceived benefits are arguably not fully realised in an emerging economy like India, where distribution utilities are at the crossroads of financial instability and social obligations related to ensuring universal access and energy efficiency. Hence, this paper delves into existing empirical literature to identify analytical evidence that links electricity access, end-use efficiency, household welfare, the economics of supply, the environment, and regional endowment. Further, policy documents were examined to map the evolution of such interventions and their intended welfare outcomes. Since the existing studies lack a joint evaluation of the social impacts of access and efficiency interventions, we argue for analysing the nexus of electricity access, energy efficiency, and welfare and thereby bridging these disparate streams of literature. Even though there has been a deluge of electricity access and end-use efficiency policies implemented in India with the expectation of delivering societal welfare, there is a dearth of retrospective research examining analytical evidence on the realisation of such an expectation. This study contributes to the limited literature available on empirically established welfare outcomes of access and efficiency reforms in the Indian power sector and attempts to highlight the need for research on analysing the interdependencies between welfare outcomes of these reforms.

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Reforming Electricity Access and End-Use Efficiency Policies in India – A Social Welfare Perspective

Aditya,

Jaipuria,

Dadabada

et al. 2023

E3S Web Conf.

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“…In recent years a number of bold moves by Prime Minister Modi have started to touch the life of most vulnerable sections of our society. Some examples of these outreach initiatives are 100% rural electrification (Agrawal, Kumar, & Joji, 2020), Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Arora, 2019), open defecation free India (Exum, Gorin, Sadhu, Khanna, & Schwab, 2020;Patwa & Pandit, 2018;Ramani, 2019), Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (Gould & Urpelainen, 2019;Mittal, Mukherjee, & Gelb, 2017), and Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (Kar, 2019). Significance of these Level-A interventions cannot be undermined.…”

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Reorientation of Activities and Self-Environment Integration: A Novel Theory of Activities

Agarwal¹

2020

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Reorientation of activities and self-environment integration: this is a novel theory of activities that emerged from an intervention called multiple activities change intervention. This theory of activities divides activities into restoration, growth, and adjustment related activities. It uses pie-charts to quantify these groups, which are similar to the groupings of needs―and the similarities and differences between activities and needs and their classifications have also been discussed. Pie-charts called activities-circles help us in elucidating the most important principles of the theory: imbalance of activities, reorientation of activities, principal reorientation related activities, and self-environment integration. Personality is considered an offshoot of activities, and the theory of activities seems to have parallels with Big-Two and Biggest-One of Five-Factor framework. The new theory has also been compared with Apter’s reversal theory―and personality “enhancement” with prescription drugs has been analyzed in its perspective. Finally, I have tried to analyse the potential effects of related interventions on society in general and medicine in particular.

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“…Demand, population density, and distance to existing grid infrastructure are crucial factors influencing the cost competitiveness of different solutions. An argument for the use of solar photovoltaics-(PV) based off-grid systems, can be made on cost, system reliability and environmental grounds 10,11 . Off-grid PV systems have become markedly cheaper, benefiting from the increased deployment of PV globally and the mass production of batteries for electric vehicles; capital costs for PV mini-grids fell by 65-85% in the decade up to 2019, and are expected to fall further by 2030 12 .…”

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“…Off-grid PV systems have become markedly cheaper, benefiting from the increased deployment of PV globally and the mass production of batteries for electric vehicles; capital costs for PV mini-grids fell by 65-85% in the decade up to 2019, and are expected to fall further by 2030 12 . Off-grid systems may offer consumers higher reliability and more predictable power than current grid infrastructure in some contexts, which may encourage consumer preferences towards such systems 11,13 . Finally, PV-based off-grid systems can provide equivalent energy services with lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relative to fossil-based alternatives 19 .…”

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How reliability and carbon prices impact pathways to universal electricity access in Africa

Beath

Mittal

Few

et al. 2023

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Off-grid PV systems have been proposed as a panacea for economies with poor electricity access, offering a lower-cost “leapfrog” over grid infrastructure used in higher-income economies. However, reliability and carbon pricing impacts have been omitted from work that examines pathways to electricity access, underplaying the potential of off-grid PV. We perform high-resolution geospatial analysis on universal household electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa that includes these aspects via least-cost pathways at different electricity demand levels. Under our "Tier 3" demand reference scenario, 24% of our study’s 470 million people obtaining electricity access by 2030 do so via off-grid PV. A penalty for unmet demand (0.50 $/kWh) increases this share to 41% and applying a carbon price (around $80/tonne CO2-eq) increases it to 38%. We identify thresholds for policy effectiveness in different regions and highlight the high degree of spatial heterogeneity and the areas where policy intervention may be most effective.

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100% Rural Electrification in India: Myth or Reality?

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

Reforming Electricity Access and End-Use Efficiency Policies in India – A Social Welfare Perspective

Reforming Electricity Access and End-Use Efficiency Policies in India – A Social Welfare Perspective

Reorientation of Activities and Self-Environment Integration: A Novel Theory of Activities

How reliability and carbon prices impact pathways to universal electricity access in Africa

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