Description: Lighting Rural India : Load Segregation Eexperience in Selected States

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Lighting Rural India : Load Segregation Eexperience in Selected States

Socioeconomic development of the rural populace is critical to India achieving its stated objective of inclusive growth. It is widely accepted that access to a reliable and sufficient power supply is a key enabler of rural economic growth. Tradit...

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Main Authors:	Khanna, Ashish, Mukherjee, Mohua, Banerjee, Sudeshna Ghosh, Saraswat, Kavita, Khurana, Mani
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY ACCOUNT ACCOUNTING ACCOUNTS ACQUISITION AGRICULTURE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PROGRAM AMOUNT OF POWER APPROACH AUDITED ACCOUNTS AUDITING AVAILABILITY AVERAGE COST OF SUPPLY BALANCE BASE YEAR BILLING CONSUMERS COST BENEFIT COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS COST OF ENERGY COST OF ENERGY SUPPLY DECISION MAKING DEMAND MANAGEMENT DIESEL DIESEL GENERATORS DISTRIBUTION LOSSES DISTRIBUTION NETWORK ELECTRIC POWER ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ELECTRICITY TARIFFS ENERGY AUDIT ENERGY CONSUMPTION ENERGY COSTS ENERGY INPUT EXPENDITURE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FOSSIL FOSSIL FUELS FUEL FUEL CONSUMPTION GDP GENERATION GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES INCOME KILOWATT HOUR LOAD FACTOR OVERHEAD PEAK DEMAND PEAK LOAD PER CAPITA INCOME POWER POWER CONSUMPTION POWER DISTRIBUTION POWER SECTOR POWER SYSTEM PROCUREMENT QUALITY ASSURANCE RELIABILITY OF SUPPLY REPORTING RESIDENTIAL CONSUMERS RURAL ELECTRIFICATION SALES TRANSPARENCY UTILITIES VOLTAGE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/02/19784515/lighting-rural-india-load-segregation-experience-selected-states http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20063

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Summary:	Socioeconomic development of the rural populace is critical to India achieving its stated objective of inclusive growth. It is widely accepted that access to a reliable and sufficient power supply is a key enabler of rural economic growth. Traditionally, India's rural power supply has been restricted by having feeders to villages serve both agriculture and household loads. Because agriculture power supply is rationed by the distribution utilities, residential consumers often suffer from inadequate service. The study findings reveal that segregated systems can be used to manage peak demand, identify and reduce losses previously hidden in agricultural consumption, improve power supply to rural domestic consumers, and bolster socioeconomic development. Enabling the segregated system with information technology (IT) can further improve monitoring and control and bring about transparency and efficiency: Agricultural consumption on which the subsidy is based can be exactly determined, even without consumer metering, and data collected from the system can be used for strategic decision making and operational improvement.