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Closing the Circuit - Stimulated End-Use Demand for Rural Electrification
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| Publisher:
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Rocky Mountain Institute
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| Author:
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Margaret Mccall & Scarlett Santana
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| Published in:
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October 2018
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| Abstract:
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Electrification’s ultimate measure of success in developing nations—and its real contribution—is to
both meet basic humanitarian needs and underpin economic development. But most electrification
programs focus on expanding supply with limited investment devoted to enabling end uses that drive
productivity improvements and meet critical needs. For example, from 2000 to 2008, supply expansion
represented almost half of the nearly $4 billion the World Bank approved for investment in energy
access, whereas investment in productive use represented 0.7%.i In Africa, all investment in
productive use financed technical assistance (TA); no such financing was directed to implement
productive use investment projects.
In this report, the case is made for a greatly increased focus on supporting demand, outline the key barriers hampering increased use of electricity, and provide a succinct set of recommendations on actions that can be taken to complement the current focus on supply-side solutions.
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