Socially Constructed Design in Context of Small-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Home System

Dhiman, Brajesh; Chaudhury, Mrinal Krishna; Mahapatra, Santanu; Chakrabarti, Dilip K.

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-5974-3_34

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“…Fadaeenejad et al (2014) emphasized on the use of ICT to ensure transition from the use of fossil fuels to RE alternatives within the rural energy systems in Malaysia. Dhiman et al (2019) identified ICT as a credible means of enhancing access to solar electricity amidst the rural population residing in the Northeastern states of India. Besides, Droege (2011) concluded that the application of ICT can promote production and supply of electricity from RE resources using wireless communications technologies especially across the rural areas.…”

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An empirical analysis of the non-linear impacts of ICT-trade openness on renewable energy transition, energy efficiency, clean cooking fuel access and environmental sustainability in South Asia

Murshed

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Energy security and environmental sustainability have become an integral policy agenda worldwide whereby the global economic growth policies are being restructured to ensure the reliability of energy supply and safeguard environmental well-being as well. However, technological inefficiency is one of the major hindrances in attaining these over-arching goals. Hence, this paper probed into the non-linear impacts of ICT trade on the prospects of undergoing renewable energy transition, improving energy use efficiencies, enhancing access to cleaner cooking fuels, and mitigating carbon dioxide emissions across selected South Asian economies: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Maldives. The results from the econometric analyses reveal that ICT trade directly increases renewable energy consumption, enhances renewable energy shares, reduces intensity of energy use, facilitates adoption of cleaner cooking fuels, and reduces carbon-dioxide emissions. Moreover, ICT trade also indirectly mitigates carbon-dioxide emissions through boosting renewable energy consumption levels, improving energy efficiencies, and enhancing cleaner cooking fuel access. Hence, these results, in a nutshell, portray the significance of reducing the barriers to ICT trade with respect to ensuring energy security and environmental sustainability across South Asia. Therefore, it is ideal for the government to gradually lessen the trade barriers to boost the volumes of cross-border flows of green ICT commodities. Besides, it is also recommended to attract foreign direct investments for the potential development of the respective ICT sectors of the South Asian economies.

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Section: The Literature On Ict and Retmentioning

confidence: 99%

An empirical analysis of the non-linear impacts of ICT-trade openness on renewable energy transition, energy efficiency, clean cooking fuel access and environmental sustainability in South Asia

Murshed

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

336

107

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Study of small scale photovoltaic applications in rural Indian household context

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In India, approximately 240 million people do not have access to electricity. Many suburban and rural parts of the country are either not connected to the grid or are served with an intermittent power supply. In such cases, a dependable source is required to avail the electricity primarily for subsistence. Small-scale solar photovoltaic applications become the most reliable and dependable option to provide electricity, and it could be a solution to compensate electricity for households where the national grid is unreliable, or the population density is too sparse. In this context, a case study is performed in order to investigate the feasibility and usefulness of decentralized small-scale solar photovoltaic applications in the context of Indian rural households. The methodology involves field observations conducted in Sonitpur district of Assam, India. Additionally, a Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is conducted using ‘GaBi’ educational software to assess the embodied energy and energy payback time (EPBT). The socio-cultural relationship of such small-scale solar photovoltaic applications is studied in the human development context of remote villages in Assam state, India. Two different types of decentralized solar photovoltaic distribution models are considered – Solar photovoltaic home system (SPVHS) model and decentralized DC microgrid distribution model. Context-specific benefits are observed for the DC microgrid model over the SPVHS model. Furthermore, the socio-cultural dimensions and issues identified in ownership and maintenance point towards the acceptance of such systems. To fulfil the energy demand by considering affordability and usefulness of design, the DC microgrid distribution model ensured an optimal design based on the rural user requirements. Hence, such systems would address the subsistent energy needs of Indian villages and propel them towards energy self-sufficiency.

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Socially Constructed Design in Context of Small-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Home System

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An empirical analysis of the non-linear impacts of ICT-trade openness on renewable energy transition, energy efficiency, clean cooking fuel access and environmental sustainability in South Asia

An empirical analysis of the non-linear impacts of ICT-trade openness on renewable energy transition, energy efficiency, clean cooking fuel access and environmental sustainability in South Asia

Study of small scale photovoltaic applications in rural Indian household context

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