Rural electrification: Optimising the choice between decentralised renewable energy sources and grid extension
By S. Mahapatra, S. Dasappa. 2012
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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Pollution
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Citations in the corpus
- Electrification planning using Network Planner tool: The case of Ghana (2014, background): “In order to extend electricity to rural and other peri-urban communities that currently lack access to electricity, energy agencies spend substantial time to undertake studies to obtain reasonably accurate estimates of electrification cost for these communities (Mahapatra and Dasappa, 2012; Pinheiro”
- Enabling private sector investment in microgrid-based rural electrification in developing countries: A review (2015, background): “Several studies have shown the levelized cost of electricity from renewable energy is frequently lower than the cost of diesel-generated electricity [24,53,54].”
- Techno-economical analysis of stand-alone hybrid renewable power system for Ras Musherib in United Arab Emirates (2014, background): “Electrifying the rural area is more expensive than urban areas because of lower load densities, lower capacity utilization rates and higher electricity line costs [5,6].”