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  title info:
    title: Rural Electrification
    sub title: Strategies for Distributed Generation
  name:
    name part: Zerriffi, Hisham.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 203 p. online resource.
  abstract: For those in developed nations, suddenly being without electricity is a disaster: power cuts have us fretting over the food stored in the freezer, and even a few hours without lights, televisions, or air conditioning is an ordeal. However, for an estimated 1.6 billion people worldwide, the absence of electricity is their daily experience. An untold number of others live with electricity that is erratic and of poor quality. How can electric power be brought into their lives when the centralized utility models that have evolved in developed nations are not an economically viable option? Poor, rural communities in developing nations cannot simply be ‘plugged in’ to a grid. Small-scale Distributed Generation (DG), ranging from individual solar home systems to village level grids run off diesel generators, could provide the answer, and this book compares around 20 DG enterprises and projects in Brazil, Cambodia and China, each of which is considered to be a "business model" for distributed rural electrification. While large, centralized power projects often rely on big subsidies, this study shows that privately run and localized solutions can be both self-sustaining and replicable. Its three sections provide a general introduction to the issue of electrification and rural development, set out the details of the case studies and compare the models involved, and discuss the important thematic issues of equity, access to capital and cost-recovery. Hisham Zerriffi shows that in each case, it is not simply a matter of matching a particular technology to a particular need. Numerous institutional factors come into play including the regulatory regime, access to financial services, and government/utility support or opposition to the DG alternative. Despite this, in many countries, the question is not whether DG has a role to play. Rather it is a question of how it will play a role. Key themes: Rural Electrification - Distributed Generation - Centralized versus Distributed System…
  table of contents: Part 1. Introduction. 1. Rethinking Rural Electrification -- Part 2. Research design and Results. 2. Distributed Rural Electrification Study Methods -- 3. Distributed Rural Electrification in Brazil -- 4. Distributed Rural Electrification in Cambodia -- 5. Distributed Rural Electrification in China -- 6. Understanding Success and Failure in Distributed Electrification -- Part 3. Moving Beyond Rhetoric and Failure to Electrify the World -- 7. The Dangers of Cheap Universal Service and a Vision for Distributed Electrification -- 8. Paying for the Vision: New Financial Models for Distributed Electrification.
  note: by Hisham Zerriffi.
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Economic geography
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Economic Geography
  classification: HF1021-1027
  classification: 330.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789048195947
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9594-7
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