Can photovoltaic technologies help attain sustainable rural development in Bangladesh?

Biswas, Wahidul K.; Diesendorf, Mark; Bryce, Paul

doi:10.1016/s0301-4215(03)00083-1

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“…But, credit markets often do not exist or require collateral and/or a regular income stream poor people often do not possess (Howells et al, 2005;Sengendo, 2001). This lack of access to functioning credit markets explains why lump sum down payments or installation fees for renewable energy technologies (RET) form severe barriers to RET diffusion (Biswas et al, 2004). In Bolivia for instance, a small local grid doubled its number of customers when it started to spread connection cost payment over five years, whereas in Malawi the electricity company demands a full upfront payment of the 30 year cost of line extension, resulting in a RE rate of only 2% (Barnes and Foley, 2001).…”

Section: Affordabilitymentioning

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An integrated framework for rural electrification: Adopting a user-centric approach to business model development

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Rural electrification (RE) has gained prominence over the past two decades as an effective means for improving living conditions. This growth has largely been driven by socio-economic and political imperatives to improve rural livelihood and by technological innovation. Based on a content analysis of 232 scholarly articles, the literature is categorized into four focal lenses: technology, institutional, viability and user-centric. We find that the first two dominate the RE debate. The viability lens has been used less frequently, whilst the user-centric lens began to engage scholars as late as 2007. We provide an overview of the technological, institutional and viability lenses, and elaborate upon the user-centric lens in greater detail. For energy policy and practice, we combine the four lenses to develop a business model framework that policy makers, practitioners and investors could use to assess RE projects or to design future rural electrification strategies.

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Section: Affordabilitymentioning

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An integrated framework for rural electrification: Adopting a user-centric approach to business model development

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“…The literature on rural electrification (RE) has focused mainly on policy issues (for instance, Chaurey et al, 2004;Biswas et al, 2004;Foley, 1992;Ranganathan, 1993;Schramm, 1993). Some case studies of country experiences (for instance, ESMAP, 2005;Yang, 2003) and project appraisal studies of projects financed by international funding agencies are also found.…”

Section: He Progress In Rural Electrification Inmentioning

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Managing risk in a large rural electrification programme in India

Bhattacharya

Subhes

Dey

2007

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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“…The experience with this project indicates that Bangladesh has the technical capacity to carry out solar PV projects. However, the operation of this particular plant has been unsatisfactory due to inadequate maintenance systems and insufficient enforcement of customer payments (Biswas et al, 2004). The increased acceptability and dissemination of renewable technologies in rural areas of Bangladesh hinge mainly on their widespread affordability in the communities, and their being culturally harmonized (Biswas et al, 2001;Siddiqui, 2003).…”

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Advancement of renewables in Bangladesh and Thailand: Policy intervention and institutional settings

Uddin

Taplin

2006

Natural Resources Forum

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This article reviews and analyses the advancement of renewable sources of energy in Bangladesh and Thailand in terms of policy intervention and institutional settings. Since renewable forms of energy emit far smaller amounts of greenhouse gas compared with fossil fuels, their use should mitigate climate change impacts while contributing to the provision of energy services. The article turns first to a review of energy–environment trends and the potential for renewables in these two nations. It then discusses strategies for the advancement of renewables. It is argued that further significant efforts can be made towards the advancement of renewables in Bangladesh and Thailand. These two nations could also learn from the experience in industrialized nations and other developing nations with regard to requisite policy instruments and processes. A number of barriers remain to the advancement of renewables, especially in terms of policy arrangements, institutional settings, financing mechanisms and technologies. Resources, cooperation and learning are required in order to overcome such barriers and to foster the development of necessary policy measures. Implementation of the clean development mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol, and replication and adaptation of effective strategies from other settings are possible avenues for this.

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Can photovoltaic technologies help attain sustainable rural development in Bangladesh?

Cited by 46 publications

References 3 publications

An integrated framework for rural electrification: Adopting a user-centric approach to business model development

An integrated framework for rural electrification: Adopting a user-centric approach to business model development

Managing risk in a large rural electrification programme in India

Advancement of renewables in Bangladesh and Thailand: Policy intervention and institutional settings

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