Briefing Paper Series on Sustainable Energy and Rural Energy Access

Undertaken By: Ashden India Renewable Energy Collective,    Recent Publication: 2014

Shakti has supported the development of a briefing paper series on decentralized renewable energy (DRE) that capitalizes on practitioner experience to inform new DRE interventions. Rural energy practitioners have systematically identified critical themes relevant to DRE in India. Each theme is presented in the form of a briefing paper. The papers provide DRE practitioners, policy makers, and researchers with practical, for promoting DRE in communities to help meet local energy and sustainability goals.

• Paper 12 – Decentralized Renewable Energy for Rural Development: The Way Forward
• Paper 11 – Regulatory Imperatives for Scaling Up Decentralized Renewable Energy in India
• Paper 10 – Institutional Transitions to Mainstream Decentralized Renewable Energy for Sustainable Energy Access
• Paper 9 – DRE-Based Micro Grids: Motivation for Developing Grid-Interactive Systems
• Paper 8 – Solar Off-Grid Lighting: An Optimistic and Pragmatic View Required
• Paper 7 – Priming the Solar Pump
• Paper 6 – Hybrid Systems in Decentralised Distributed Generation of Electricity: Potential and Challenges
• Paper 5 – Mainstreaming Bio-Energy for Heat and Power: Systematically Tapping Opportunities
• Paper 4 – Decentralized Renewable Energy Financing: Needs-Orientation, Benefits Valuation and Linkage with Performance
• Paper 3 – Clean Cooking Energy for All: Renewed Thinking in Five Key Areas
• Paper 2 – Human Capacities and Capabilities for Decentralized Renewable Energy
• Paper 1 – Sustainable Energy Access: The DRE way