Electrification of end-uses and the growth of solar and wind is changing how electricity systems operate on all time scales. This report analyses how seasonal variations in both demand and supply affect electricity system operations to 2050 – in Europe, India, Indonesia and Korea – and what sources will be …
In India 73,000 villages are not connected to the grid. The national solar mission can easily become a model for supplying power to rural areas and poor homes, said Ranjit Deshmukh of Mumbai non-profit Prayas Energy Group. He has pegged hopes on small solar power plants away from the grid. …
SAMBALPUR: Despite housing the Hirakud dam project which also generates electricity, hundreds of villages in the district continue to be in dark without power. As many as 473 villages in Sambalpur district await electrification even though schemes like Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyuti Karan Yojana (RGGVY) and Biju Gram Jyoti Yojana …
PESHAWAR (June 05 2010): The village electrification plan and extension of existing distribution system is smoothly moving ahead and so far 168 schemes have been completed out of total 700 schemes, costing Rs 1.147 million. This was disclosed during a presentation given to Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Owais Ahmed Ghani at …
All Sri Lankans would have electricity by the end of 2012, assured Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka. Under the Programme `Electricity for All by 2012,
Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdulla called on Chief Minister Nishank at the Bijapur State guest house on Tuesday and held discussions on the possibilities of non-conventional energy production in the State. The CM requested for the special cooperation of the Union Government in providing the 18,000 …
This paper studies welfare impacts of household energy use & estimates household minimum energy requirement that could be used as a basis for an energy poverty line. Finds that 58 % of rural households in Bangladesh are energy poor, compared with 45 percent that are income poor and suggests that …
This study highlights the central role of capacity development for scaling up rural energy service delivery and to catalyze private financing for achieving universal energy access and the MDGs. Although it takes considerable upfront public investment to kick-start capacity development, once these investments have been made they can attract substantial …
SHILLONG: Five villages under Elaka Rymbai and Narpuh in Jaintia Hills have been deprived of electrification due to interference by the Forest department. The villages which have been deprived of electrification include Borsara, Leigri, Lahalein, Huroi and Hingiria under the jurisdiction of the Khliehriat Sub division in Jaintia Hills district. …
THE INDIAN ELECTRICITY ACT, 2003, INITIALly envisaged that the appropriate governments shall endeavour to supply electricity to all areas including villages and hamlets (Section 6), thus placing the responsibility for ensuring rural electricity supply on state governments. The UPA-I government amended this section to read as follows after detailed deliberations …
Solar-Gem, a Sydney-based company providing affordable solutions based on clean solar power systems, would now provide electricity to Elephanta Island near Mumbai. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) with support from Pune-based Science and Technology Park (STP) has collaborated with Solar-Gem to initially provide green-power in one village
Depicting a grim scenario on funding for the power sector during the entire 11th Five Year Plan period, a sub-committee of the Group of Ministers (GoM) has made a slew of recommendations for better targeting of beneficiaries. These include transferring the funds mobilised through disinvestments in the power Central public …
In Nepal, lost in the chaos of political upheavals, a silent revolution is afoot. In remote villages of this mountainous and energy-starved country people are demanding their right to electricity. They say electricity is a national good; everyone must have a right to it. This is not to say Nepal …
Across Nepal, close to 420 electricity user groups, cooperatives and committees are working to extend the grid into villages. They are taking charge of electricity distribution, maintenance and ‘customer service’. Together they have electrified 176,000 rural households according to nea; another 90,000 are in the pipeline. These numbers are significant …
Away from the grid, villages have been generating their own electricity for decades in Nepal. The country is the developing world’s petri dish for experiments on small-scale renewables. Generous international donors have supported biomass (biogas, improved cooking stoves and biofuels); mini- and micro-hydro power; improved water mills; solar (photovoltaic and …
Meticulously planned off-grid systems of power generation face the greatest threat from haphazard extension of the grid. “The subsidy is disbursed, plants are built, and then mothballed as soon as the grid reaches,” Ratna Sansar Shrestha, water and energy policy analyst, said. Despite the long and frequent power cuts, many …
A Consumer movement is catching on in Nepal.Communities are extending the grid to villages.This threatens to undo the effort put in small-scale off-grid power generation to fight poverty. How can Nepal harmonize the two initiatives ? Read More - http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/when-villages-plug
Even as Delhi and NCR reel under power cuts, solar energy is beginning to light up villages just a few miles into the countryside. The sun no longer sets on Nakshandabad. It continues to light up this small village in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh well past dusk. Even as …
AMIDST WIDESPREAD DISBELIEF, HARIPUR, THE SITE FOR THE INDO-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, IS RIPE FOR ANOTHER CIVIL WAR, SAYS PARTHA DASGUPTA RAMPRASAD BAR, a bespectacled man in his mid-50s, was stitching a blue fishnet under a palm-tree when he saw this correspondent and his camera-wielding colleague. One could immediately see …
