Low-Cost Electrification: Affordable Electricity Installation for Low-Income Households in Developing Countries - Couverture souple

Smith, Nigel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853394548 ISBN 13 : 9781853394546

Editeur : Practical Action Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

Electricity is highly desired by low-income households, but it is all too often only obtained by the richer people in developing countries. The tremendous sacrifices and high payments that low-income households are often prepared to make to obtain even small amounts indicate the importance that they attach to electricity. Low-cost Electrification looks at why, in most developing countries, efforts to provide electricity to poor households have had only limited success and recommends some appropriate solutions. This Working Paper draws on the experience of experts involved in low-cost electrification snd evidence collected from six developing countries. The paper contains a complete review of the problems faced by poor users which include high connection costs, high costs of house wiring, and houses failing to meet standard requirements, as well as a review of the constraints faced by power utilities such as high capital costs and high revenue-collection costs. The paper suggests a number of new and practical approaches, and ways to implement them, which can make electirifcation more economic for the utility, and spread the benefits of electrification more equitably across the social spectrum. Low-cost Electrification is part of the Intermediate Technology Working Papers series which is designed to make the information that Intermediate Technology is generating about technology and development accessible to a brader readership across the development sector.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Nigel Smith is an independent engineering consultant with experience in low-cost electrification in developing countries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Practical Action Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853394548
• ISBN 13: 9781853394546
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 48
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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