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Adoption of solar photovoltaic lighting in rural India: Role of localization strategy
Abstract Around 300 million (mostly rural poor) people in India have no or extremely limited access to electricity. Low rung of fuel such as kerosene is their main source of lighting, which has pernicious impact on public and environmental health. Also, poor quality of light from kerosene is a consistent challenge for school-going children to study at home after sunset. Attempts to introduce off-grid solar photovoltaic technology in poor communities have experienced three key challenges of affordability, adequate repair and maintenance, and multilevel partnerships of different stakeholders. Funded by the Government of India, we implemented the Million Solar Urja (Energy) program to disseminate one million solar study lamps to rural poor households in 72 sub-districts of India. We adopted a localization strategy, wherein we focused on capacity building of local communities to foster adoption of solar lamps. By drawing cues from this program, we outline a short communication to demonstrate that localization strategy has a purchase to address challenges of affordability, repair and maintenance, and development of multilevel partnerships. Based on the lessons learnt from this program, we are currently implementing another program supported by the Government of India to disseminate 7 million solar lamps in rural poor communities of India.
Adoption of solar photovoltaic lighting in rural India: Role of localization strategy
Abstract Around 300 million (mostly rural poor) people in India have no or extremely limited access to electricity. Low rung of fuel such as kerosene is their main source of lighting, which has pernicious impact on public and environmental health. Also, poor quality of light from kerosene is a consistent challenge for school-going children to study at home after sunset. Attempts to introduce off-grid solar photovoltaic technology in poor communities have experienced three key challenges of affordability, adequate repair and maintenance, and multilevel partnerships of different stakeholders. Funded by the Government of India, we implemented the Million Solar Urja (Energy) program to disseminate one million solar study lamps to rural poor households in 72 sub-districts of India. We adopted a localization strategy, wherein we focused on capacity building of local communities to foster adoption of solar lamps. By drawing cues from this program, we outline a short communication to demonstrate that localization strategy has a purchase to address challenges of affordability, repair and maintenance, and development of multilevel partnerships. Based on the lessons learnt from this program, we are currently implementing another program supported by the Government of India to disseminate 7 million solar lamps in rural poor communities of India.
Adoption of solar photovoltaic lighting in rural India: Role of localization strategy
Joshi, Lalita (author) / Narayanan, NC (author) / Venkateswaran, Jayendran (author) / Solanki, Chetan S. (author) / Kumar, Praveen (author)
Energy and Buildings ; 202
2019-08-11
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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