Early electrification and the quality of service: Evidence from rural India

Thomas, Daniel Robert; Urpelainen, Johannes

doi:10.1016/j.esd.2018.02.004

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“…Enterprises also sought new markets in response to policy change. In 2017 the JNNSM programme that supported solar home systems (SHS) with subsidies and loans was cancelled (Patil, M., 2017;Thomas and Urpelainen, 2018;MNRE, 2017). At that time, ENT10 turned away from off grid areas to also areas with relatively more grid connectivity.…”

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New and renewable energy social enterprises accessing government support: Findings from India

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In a world that increasingly invites private actors to address social needs, there has been a rise of social enterprises in a variety of sectors, including new and renewable energy. As of yet, little research has focused on how these enterprises interact with government policy in low-and middle-income countries. This research specifically explores how social enterprises operating in rural India with decentralized renewable energy solutions seek to access government support, and what strategies they adopt to engage with the government. An inductive theory-building approach was adopted to explore this and advance current knowledge in the boundaries of social entrepreneurship and policy. We propose 'Engagement' and 'Disengagement' as the two strategies used by social enterprises in this context in accessing government support and policy. 'Engagement' is a strategy comprising of the tactics: (a) Leveraging Policy, (b) Building and Leveraging Relationships, (c) Lobbying, and (d) Monitoring. 'Disengagement' is a strategy comprising of the tactics: (a)

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“…Timing of outages The timing of power outages has been qualitatively asserted as important to the experience of reliability (Tait 2017, Thomas and Urpelainen 2018, Dunn et al 2019, Zemo et al 2019, however empirical investigations of outage patterns or predictability are rare. The examples that do exist are sparce in details.…”

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Measuring the reliability of SDG 7: the reasons, timing, and fairness of outage distribution for household electricity access solutions

Ferrall

Callaway

Kammen

2022

Environ. Res. Commun.

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The United Nations identifies ensuring “access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all” as one of its Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. This article focuses on the comparatively under-investigated question of reliability within the broader goal. We empirically study experienced household electricity reliability using common frameworks in key countries such as Tanzania, Kenya, and India. Datasets represent a diverse set of technologies including solar home systems (SHS), solar pico-grids, and national electricity grids. First, the prevailing reliability metrics - SAIDI and SAIFI – are measured for all datasets. Informed by critical assessments, this article then proposes a suite of new metrics that facilitate improved reliability comparisons by considering the reasons, timing, and fairness of outage distribution. Analyses using our proposed metrics reveal key policy implications for addressing energy poverty in the Global South. Acknowledging that the systems studied provide different capacity, affordability, and carbon footprints, we find that on average, SHS provided comparable hours of lighting to local grid connections, however SHS outages were less equally distributed than those from other sources. In addition, calculations of grid reliability were highly sensitive to measurement techniques and assumptions used, necessitating high resolution data for policy decisions. Finally, economically driven outages conspicuous in pre-paid SHS systems (i.e., disconnections for non-payment) composed a significant portion of experienced unreliability. These findings quantify the important contribution of demand-side affordability to experienced household reliability, thereby allowing for a comprehensive understanding of the reliability of SDG 7.

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“…Further, United States, for instance, the largest energy consumer in the world is also one of the countries with high human development achievements (HDI is 0.924 in 2017). Extant literature also shows plenty of evidences about the enabling influence of energy access on the socioeconomic progress of the people (see, for e.g., Pachauri et al, 2004;Sovacool, 2013;Lacroix and Chaton, 2015;Szakonyi andUrpelainen, 2015 andThomas andUrpelainen, 2018). Thus, it is a fact that access to modern and affordable energy services is indispensable to improve the standard of living and enhance human development (Martinez and Ebenhack, 2008).…”

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Access to Modern Energy Services and Human Development in India: Has Government Policies Paid Off?

Sadath

Acharya

2021

IJEEP

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In this paper we investigate the relationship between access to modern energy services and human development in India over a decade. We estimate an index of human development, multidimensional energy poverty index, and confidence index. Empirical result shows that energy poverty is quite widespread in most of the states in spite of the progress made in reducing the same during the study period. States with higher level of human development are having lower level of energy poverty implying a strong negative correlation between energy poverty and human development. Further, the strength of negative relationship between energy poverty and human development has strengthened during the study period. Among the components of human development, energy poverty has highest impact on GSDP percapita index followed by education index and life expectancy index. The study also finds that confidence index has positive relationship with human development index, whereas negative relationship with energy poverty.

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Early electrification and the quality of service: Evidence from rural India

Cited by 27 publications

References 18 publications

New and renewable energy social enterprises accessing government support: Findings from India

New and renewable energy social enterprises accessing government support: Findings from India

Measuring the reliability of SDG 7: the reasons, timing, and fairness of outage distribution for household electricity access solutions

Access to Modern Energy Services and Human Development in India: Has Government Policies Paid Off?

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