Douglas F. Barnes and his team of development experts provide an
essential guide that can help improve the quality of life of the
estimated 1.3 billion rural people in the world who are without
electricity.
The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are
formidable: Low population densities result in high capital and
operating costs. Consumers are often poor and their electricity
consumption is low. Politicians interfere with the planning and
operations of programs, insisting on favored constituents. Yet, as
Barnes and his contributors demonstrate, many countries have
overcome these obstacles. The Challenge of Rural Electrification
provides lessons from successful programs in Bangladesh, Chile,
China, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, and Tunisia,
as well as Ireland and the United States. These insights are
presented in a format that is accessible to a broad range of policy
makers, development professionals, and community advocates.
Barnes and his contributors do not provide a single formula for
bringing electricity to rural areas. They do not recommend a
specific set of institutional arrangements for the participation of
public sector companies, cooperatives, and private firms. They
argue instead that successful programs follow a flexible but still
well-defined set of principles: a financially viable plan that
clearly accounts for any subsidies; a cooperative relationship
between electricity providers and local communities; and an
operational separation from day-to-day government and politics.
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