Opportunities and Challenges for Solar Minigrid Development in Rural Ind
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Empowering rural India the RE way: inspiring success stories
India is home to several innovations and successful examples of providing energy access to the remotest areas of the country. However, the challenge is to ensure that access to modern energy is rapidly scaled up, even while ensuring that access is environmentally, institutionally and financially sustainable. This compendium titled "Empowering rural India the RE way: inspiring success stories" contains live examples from different parts of the country of the zeal to bring about change, a determination to surpass barriers in access to energy, and a drive to adopt and promote renewable energy technologies to suit local requirements....
Results-Based Financing for Off-grid Energy Access in India
This paper was prepared by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water for the World Bank administered Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). ESMAP is a global, multidonor trust fund, which aims to assist low- and middle-income countries to increase know-how and institutional capacity to achieve environmentally sustainable energy solutions for poverty reduction and economic growth....
As the slow recovery in the global economy fails to invigorate labour markets, job creation has come to the forefront of policy debate and countries’ strategic choices. While the potential of renewable energy to create jobs is widely recognised, further analysis is required to understand its full benefits....
