By Subhes C. Bhattacharyya, Debajit Palit

In attractiveness of the truth that billions of individuals within the constructing international don't have entry to scrub energies, the United international locations introduced the Sustainable power for All Initiative to accomplish common power entry by means of 2030. even though electrical energy grid extension continues to be the main commonly used approach of offering entry, it really is now famous that the imperative grid is not going to arrive many distant components within the close to destiny. while, person suggestions like sun domestic structures are likely to supply very restricted companies to shoppers. Mini-grids supply an alternate by way of combining the advantages of a grid-based answer with the potential of harnessing renewable energies on the neighborhood point. the aim of this ebook is to supply in-depth assurance of using mini-grids for rural electrification in constructing nations, making an allowance for the technical, fiscal, environmental and governance dimensions and featuring case reviews from South Asia.

This ebook reviews on study conducted by means of a consortium of British and Indian researchers on off-grid electrification in South Asia. It offers state-of-the paintings technical wisdom on mini-grids and micro-grids together with renewable power integration (or eco-friendly mini-grids), clever structures for integration with the important grid, and standardization of platforms. It additionally provides crucial analytical frameworks and ways that may be used to investigate the mini-grids comprehensively together with their techno-economic points, monetary viability and regulatory concerns. The case stories drawn from South Asia reveal the appliance of the framework and show off a number of winning efforts to advertise mini-grids within the area. It additionally experiences at the layout and implementation of an indication undertaking conducted by way of the group in a cluster of villages in Odisha (India).

The book’s multi-disciplinary method allows figuring out of the proper useful dimensions of mini-grid structures, comparable to call for construction (through interventions in livelihood new release and cost chain development), financing, legislation, and shrewdpermanent method layout. Its state-of-the artwork wisdom, built-in methodological framework, simulation workouts and real-life case research will permit the reader to research and have fun with the mini-grid-related actions of their entirety. The booklet may be of curiosity to researchers, graduate scholars, practitioners and coverage makers operating within the zone of rural electrification in constructing countries.

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Evidently, regulation of the business activity will not be an easy process and would require significant amounts of training and capacity building both at the regulatory level and the service provider level. 1 Methodology For the sustainability analysis of energy access programmes, an adaptation of a framework suggested by Ilskog [12] is used. Ilskog [12] considered five sustainability dimensions—technical, economic, social/ethical, environmental and institutional sustainability. Each dimension was represented by a number of indicators and each indicator was scored on a scale of 1–7.

1 Regulation of Individual Solutions In the case of individual solutions which are delivered through sale or renting of products, electricity supply activity does not take place and hence it does not involve any distribution or transmission networks. The issue of natural monopoly does not arise accordingly. g. SHS and mini generators). The law of the land may require consent/approval for such installations from competent authorities (such as local authorities and even electricity authorities or departments) but being a standard package solution that can be offered by multiple manufacturers, the basic need for economic regulation does not arise.

International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC. nsf/Content/ Publications_LOE_SellingSolar 12. Ilskog E (2008) Indicators for assessment of rural electrification—an approach for comparison apples and pears. Energy Policy 36:2665–2673 13. Kaundinya DP, Balachandra P, Ravindranath NH (2009) Grid-connected versus stand-along energy systems for decentralized power—a review of literature. Renew Sustain Energy Rev 13:2041–2050 14. Kishore VVN, Dattakiran J, Nand Gopal E (2013) Technology choices for off-grid electrification, chapter 3.

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