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The UN Millennium Development Goals have in recent years understood and emphasized the critical connection between rural poverty and health issues, and lack of any or proper electrification. Although Indian village electrification has been a priority for the government for a number of years, it is a huge task given the millions of households residi...
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... The upper Dewgain is occupied by the Horros, the middle by the Hindus and the lower by the Das family. Based on the previous studies conducted by researchers from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a cluster map of the village was developed, which depicts the 3 clusters of the village [16]. The houses in the village were predominantly made of mud and aggregate, with curved clay tiles as the roof (Fig. 2). ...
... The Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development required all new residential communities in northern China to implement household heat metering since 2010. To fulfill the requirement, residential heating needs to be commercialized, and controlled and measured on a household basis [16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. In other words, each user should be enabled to adjust the heat, and the heating fee should be charged as per the amount of heat consumed. ...
One of the greatest challenges in today’s world is to satisfy the energy needs of a growing population, in a sustainable way. In Developing countries, actual electrification of rural areas is hindered by high costs and unreliability of service, which often discourage rural communities to avail energy services even when they are available. This study aimed at better understanding the energy struggle of Indian rural communities, and propose efficient technological solutions to address it. Taking the case of a community located in the Himalaya region, a field based, participatory and bottom-up approach is taken to assess the community needs, expectations, and actual resources. A prototype of solar panel using machine learning-assisted automatic sun tracker system is proposed to provide sustainable and affordable electricity to the community.KeywordsRural electrificationSustainable developmentRural IndiaLive-in-Labs®
