Sustainable solar home systems model: Applying lessons from Bangladesh to Myanmar's rural poor

Newcombe, Alex; Ackom, Emmanuel

doi:10.1016/j.esd.2017.03.002

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“…In order to reduce electricity costs and contribute to the deployment of the solar market and create confidence, the quality assurance of SHSs is a crucial factor to be taken into account, especially in rural areas [20][21][22][23][24][62][63][64], where the lack of an effective quality and the application of standards has been a weakness [18,19]. The purchase of an off-grid product or SHSs can represent a large investment for a rural family, which cannot afford to waste money on something that does not work well or will not last [65].…”

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Lessons Learned from Rural Electrification Experiences with Third Generation Solar Home Systems in Latin America: Case Studies in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia

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There are 17 million people without access to electricity services in Latin America. This population lives in small isolated and scattered communities with low incomes where it is difficult to achieve 100% access to electricity by the grid extension. Therefore, it is necessary to create market mechanisms and promote off-grid electrification in which photovoltaic (PV) technology plays a fundamental role. This research assesses successful projects developed in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia, where 3rd Generation Solar Home Systems (3G-SHSs) are being introduced to support off-grid initiatives. To do so, we applied a mixed-methods approach including a comparative case study analysis, an extensive literature review, focus group discussions, and field research. Thereby, the lessons learned reveal that confidence, commitment, and flexibility are the main pillars of rural electrification. Additionally, it is demonstrated that the combination of various business models-an energy service company, fee-for-service, pay-as-you-go, and a microfranchising-with 3G-SHSs is powerfully effective in terms of sustainability. Our findings are useful to policy makers, researchers, promoters, and other stakeholders to rethink intervention strategies in rural areas. Access to electricity must be a state policy to facilitate the participation of new actors, especially of the private sector and communities, and the introduction of innovative business models and high-quality technology.

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“…Even though payment efficiency has been a big challenge in rural electrification [19], according to the cases analyzed, studying market characteristics allows for planning of appropriate payment mechanisms to cover a larger population. Payment management supports money flow and rural electrification sustainability.…”

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Lessons Learned from Rural Electrification Experiences with Third Generation Solar Home Systems in Latin America: Case Studies in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia

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“…However, universal access to electricity is highly unlikely to be achieved if all the electrification is planned through conventional means of extending utility grids to remote areas due to a) limited power generation, transmission and distribution capacity, and b) financing and governance issues. Alternatively, Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are becoming very popular to electrify remote rural areas with either standalone systems [5] or low power DC microgrids [2]. However, low power provisions (light(s), mobile charging and in some cases fans) are not a major success in improving the socio-economic uplift of a country [6][7][8].…”

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Integration and Decentralized Control of Standalone Solar Home Systems for Off-Grid Community Applications

Nasir

Anees

Khan

et al. 2019

IEEE Trans. on Ind. Applicat.

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Photovoltaic solar home systems provide a costeffective solution for the limited electrification of remote off-grid communities. However, due to their standalone nature, the benefit of usage diversity cannot be extracted. In this work, we present the power electronic interface along with the decentralized control scheme for the integration of standalone solar home systems for driving community load applications. Power electronic interface consists of an isolated boost converter capable support DC bus integration, thereby it formulates a DC microgrid through the interconnection of multiple standalone solar home systems. Power aggregation is achieved through decentralized controlled resource sharing based upon the resource availability and installed capacity in the individual solar home system. To ensure cost affordability and to avoid the deployment of any communication infrastructure, modified I-V droop control is designed for the intended application. Thereby, power aggregation through the proposed power electronic interface and its decentralized control allows us to extract the benefit of usage diversity and drive high power community power loads at a village scale. The overall schematic is simulated using MATLAB and scaled down model is implemented on hardware. Results of power aggregation from various resource sharing scenarios are illustrated.

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“…The objectives of this paper are to address two of the challenges that need to be overcome to increase the diffusion of SHS in the camps: (1) a lack of data on energy provision in humanitarian situations which is inhibiting the ability of organisations to provide energy solutions [26,27] and (2) the identification of political, economic, social, technical, legal and environmental barriers and enablers that must be addressed in order to achieve widespread adoption and use of SHS [25,[28][29][30]. For example, although some studies have indicated that SHS are a viable technology for enabling socio-economic development and alleviating poverty [31][32][33] there are also several studies that refute this claim [34][35][36]. Proper alignment of these factors has also been identified by other researchers [39] as an essential component of successful projects.…”

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A PESTLE analysis of solar home systems in refugee camps in Rwanda

Thomas

Sandwell

Williamson

et al. 2021

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Sustainable solar home systems model: Applying lessons from Bangladesh to Myanmar's rural poor

Cited by 32 publications

References 10 publications

Lessons Learned from Rural Electrification Experiences with Third Generation Solar Home Systems in Latin America: Case Studies in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia

Lessons Learned from Rural Electrification Experiences with Third Generation Solar Home Systems in Latin America: Case Studies in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia

Integration and Decentralized Control of Standalone Solar Home Systems for Off-Grid Community Applications

A PESTLE analysis of solar home systems in refugee camps in Rwanda

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