... greenhouse gases Haiti refrigeration rural electrification modern energy impact evaluation biomass energy cooking fuels The growing evidence of the socio-economic benefits of electricity, along with the growing acceptance of the importance of alleviating indoor air pollution through clean cooking...

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... University Press (2018). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199487820.003.0003 Bihar’s electricity sector was in a low level equilibrium for many years, with limited rural electrification. Under Lalu Yadav in the 1990s, although Bihar’s power sector deteriorated, newly empowered...

... Morris William women Women’s Institutes identity modernisation architecture Visual cultures British Electrical Development Agency (BEDA) English countryside Networks Rural electrification Rural propaganda Figure 3.1 Wind turbines and pylons, a view from the train window on a journey through...

... The author acknowledges Professor Nigel Bankes’ research question contributions. Alastair Lucas, The Challenges of Rural Electrification in Canada In: Energy Justice and Energy Law. Edited by Íñigo Del Guayo, Lee Godden, Donald N. Zillman, Milton F. Montoya, and José Juan González...

...Chapter 5 examines the capital- and labor-intensive rural electrification project to bring hydroelectricity, indoor plumbing, and clean drinking water to small landowners and landless workers who lived in the Cordillera Central, interior mountains, of the island. This chapter also...

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... Corps, various relief programs, the Works Progress Administration, and rural electrification and the Tennessee Valley Authority were welcomed by residents in western Kentucky. New Deal provisions encouraging labor unions in the coal mines of the region had a profound impact on the coal industry...

... the states, first to stimulate more rural electrification and later to augment generation supplies and interconnect the various state and regional grids. Starting in the early 1990s, as part of a larger turn toward the market, New Delhi created rules to facilitate the entry of private capital into a sector...

...This chapter focuses on Andhra Pradesh. Thanks to colonial-era policies, some parts of Andhra Pradesh started with relatively higher rates of rural electrification than the rest of the country. However, the provision of electricity to the rural sectors made the greatest gains when the political...

... utilities to serve the public good. The industry argued that rural electrification’s cost could not be justified, and it supported that position with numerous studies. Privately owned utilities typically required rural customers to bear upfront the cost of their distribution lines and to pay rates higher...

...This chapter deals with broad aspects related to the implementation of the Electricity Act, 2003. It covers the various policies, namely, National Electricity Policy, Tariff Policy, and Rural Electrification Policy conceived and framed under the provisions of the Act, and also analyses the issues...

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... examines the trends of rural energy programs in India and attempts to capture comprehensively the developments in rural electrification and access to modern cooking energies. The chapter highlights specific challenges on technical, financial, regulatory, and institutional aspects that are hindering rural...

... Press (2018). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199487820.003.0010 Odisha in the mid-1990s was a poor state with limited rural electrification but plentiful vast coal and ample hydro supply. Enabled by a cross-party consensus that the state should become the “powerhouse...

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