Lighting Rural India : Load Segregation Eexperience in Selected States

Khanna, Ashish ; Mukherjee, Mohua ; Banerjee, Sudeshna Ghosh ; Saraswat, Kavita ; Khurana, Mani

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY;    ACCOUNT;    ACCOUNTING;    ACCOUNTS;    ACQUISITION;   

RP-ID  :  81485

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Socioeconomic development of therural populace is critical to India achieving its statedobjective of inclusive growth.It is widely accepted thataccess to a reliable and sufficient power supply is a keyenabler of rural economic growth.Traditionally,India's rural power supply has been restricted byhaving feeders to villages serve both agriculture andhousehold loads.Because agriculture power supply isrationed by the distribution utilities, residentialconsumers often suffer from inadequate service.The studyfindings reveal that segregated systems can be used tomanage peak demand, identify and reduce losses previouslyhidden in agricultural consumption, improve power supply torural domestic consumers, and bolster socioeconomicdevelopment.Enabling the segregated system withinformation technology (IT) can further improve monitoringand control and bring about transparency and efficiency:Agricultural consumption on which the subsidy is based canbe exactly determined, even without consumer metering, anddata collected from the system can be used for strategicdecision making and operational improvement.