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Decentralized Energy Access and the Millennium Development Goals - An analysis of the development benefits of micro hydropower in rural Nepal (Paperback, New)
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Decentralized Energy Access and the Millennium Development Goals - An analysis of the development benefits of micro hydropower in rural Nepal (Paperback, New)
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Decentralized, off-grid power supplies such as micro-hydropower can
be perceived as expensive investments by poor countries like Nepal.
Can these investments be justified by the benefits that electricity
brings to villages in remote mountainous regions? This book
describes research into the development gains brought to such
villages, measured in terms of progress towards achieving the
millennium development goals. Indicators relating to income,
education, gender equality, maternal and child health and
environmental impact were measured in villages benefiting from
micro-hydropower, compared with neighboring villages without an
electricity supply.The cumulative development advantages were found
to far outweigh the investment costs of a micro-hydropower system.
The household income benefits and cost savings associated with an
electricity supply were found to be considerable, and to outweigh
the investment costs of micro-hydropower over the lifetime of an
installation. Where businesses that exploited the new energy supply
had been started, the income gains were even more marked. In
addition, there were other significant development benefits in
terms of education, gender equality and health."Decentralized
Energy Access and the Millennium Development Goals" provides
conclusive evidence of these transformative benefits and recommends
that Nepal, and countries like it, scale up investments in its
micro-hydropower program.
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