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Rural Electrification in India: Economic and Institutional aspects of Renewables

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  • James Cust

    (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge)

  • Anoop Singh

    (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)

  • Karsten Neuhoff

    (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge)

Abstract

The paper assesses the demand for rural electricity services and contrasts it with the technology options available for rural electrification. Decentralised Distributed Generation can be economically viable as reflected by case studies reported in literature and analysed in our field study. Project success is driven by economically viable technology choice; however it is largely contingent on organisational leadership and appropriate institutional structures. While individual leadership can compensate for deployment barriers, we argue that a large scale roll out of rural electrification requires an alignment of economic incentives and institutional structures to implement, operate and maintain the scheme. This is demonstrated with the help of seven case studies of projects across north India.
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  • James Cust & Anoop Singh & Karsten Neuhoff, 2007. "Rural Electrification in India: Economic and Institutional aspects of Renewables," Working Papers EPRG 0730, Energy Policy Research Group, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
    • Handle: RePEc:enp:wpaper:eprg0730
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    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
    • L94 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Electric Utilities
    • Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources

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