Decentralized Rural Electrification: the Critical Success Factors
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This review of recent practice draws on ITDG’s twenty years experience of supporting off-grid solutions in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Zimbabwe and Peru in particular, and on work by other organisations in other countries, such as Indonesia, Kenya, Vietnam, South Africa.
This review of recent practice draws on ITDG’s twenty years experience of supporting off-grid solutions in Sri
Lanka, Nepal, Zimbabwe and Peru in particular, and on work by other organisations in other countries, such as
Indonesia, Kenya, Vietnam, South Africa. It draws out the generic issues which are likely to be important in any
country, but we also include others which are more context-specific on:
- Financing
- Institutional support
- Ownership
- Management
- Local Participation
- Energy Management
- Standards
- Market