India is shinning globally as reports indicates the country to have promising results in terms of renewable energy market. However, in the midst of all this, one should not forget the core aim of the issue that needs to be solved and the main reason for initiating this forum - to achieve the goal of providing lasting, reliable and afforadable energy access to the rural areas.
Even now, despite official declarations of 100% electrification in villages, there have been a lot of houses left unconnected with the grid. The definition of considering a village to be electrified needs to be re-evaluated as discussed in the article. Deeming a village to be electrified just because 10% of the homes and public buildings have access to reliable and affordable energy is not an apt energy index measure. Efforts made by the governemnt are promising and ambitious, however the country and its officials should ensure that the clean energy revolution benefits those categories of individuals that need it the most and the end goal should be to ensure all houses in the rural areas are connected with the grid. The project started for this purpose and should only stop when this has been achieved!
Source
Chugh, N. (2019, March). India's Clean Energy Revolution Needs To Start And End With Rural Consumers. Forbes Media LLC.
Nishtha Chugh, "India's Clean Energy Revolution Needs To Start And End With Rural Consumers", contributed by Namitha Sunny, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 28 May 2020, accessed 24 April 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/indias-clean-energy-revolution-needs-start-and-end-rural-consumers
Critical Commentary
India is shinning globally as reports indicates the country to have promising results in terms of renewable energy market. However, in the midst of all this, one should not forget the core aim of the issue that needs to be solved and the main reason for initiating this forum - to achieve the goal of providing lasting, reliable and afforadable energy access to the rural areas.
Even now, despite official declarations of 100% electrification in villages, there have been a lot of houses left unconnected with the grid. The definition of considering a village to be electrified needs to be re-evaluated as discussed in the article. Deeming a village to be electrified just because 10% of the homes and public buildings have access to reliable and affordable energy is not an apt energy index measure. Efforts made by the governemnt are promising and ambitious, however the country and its officials should ensure that the clean energy revolution benefits those categories of individuals that need it the most and the end goal should be to ensure all houses in the rural areas are connected with the grid. The project started for this purpose and should only stop when this has been achieved!