Mini grids and enterprise development: A study of aspirational change and business outcomes among rural enterprise owners in India

The Power of Electricity: How Effective Is It in Promoting Sustainable Development in Rural Off-Grid Islands in the Philippines?

“…However, while electricity access in rural areas is seen to foster socioeconomic growth in the communities, there is an inclination for positive impact to benefit communities with higher average household expenditures and with relatively higher incomes [32]. Moreover, the availability and reliability of the power supply are asserted as crucial parameters in encouraging significant and longer use of electricity among rural consumers [33][34][35]. Rural electrification programs fail not just because of poor design considerations and over-or under-estimation of demand but also because of weak regulatory frameworks and vague policies [36][37][38].…”

How Just and Democratic Is India’s Solar Energy Transition?: An Analysis of State Solar Policies in India

“…However, small quantities of electricity supplied at the household level do little to improve socioeconomic outcomes (Aklin et al 2017). In addition, rural enterprises require several important non-electricity inputs to achieve growth and financial sustainability (Ganguly et al 2020, Willcox et al 2015. Policies seeking to distribute the benefits of electrification more fairly, therefore, need to do more than just focus on electricity supply and should actively seek cross-sectoral integrations.…”

Comprehensive energy solution planning (CESP) framework: an evidence-based approach for sustainable energy access projects in developing countries

“…From the scientific literature, Bengo and Arena [31] provided cases of successful integration of the social dimension, within different BMs for providing energy access. Electricity supply per-se is, indeed, not sufficient for generating effective social impact local business, requiring the adoption of holistic approaches beyond the technical design [32]. A needs-driven and participative planning, as claimed by Herington et al [13], is essential to improve the social sustainability of a specific intervention: community needs to be engaged [33] and decisionmaking power need to be spread across multiple groups (polycentricity, as reported by Sovacool [29]).…”

“…They can also rely on standard parameters and wealth tiers and are usually adopted in large-scale applications [99] or expertbased methods [48]. It is, furthermore, likely that a successful project pushes new residential users, additional services for the community, or new productive activities to flourish and require additional energy or appliances [32,100]. To account for this phenomenon, top-down methods can investigate the correlation of improved access with explanatory variables and forecast their evolution over time [101]; -Bottom-up approaches: these approaches build the load curve by characterizing the energy behavior of every single user and summing up the effects at the community level.…”