Peri-Urban Electricity Consumers--A Forgotten but Important Group : What Can We Do to Electrify Them?

Peri-Urban Electricity Consumers--A Forgotten but Important Group : What Can We Do to Electrify Them?

The insufficient, and unsustainable supplies of energy, constitute what may be called an "energy poverty" or "resource poverty", affecting some forty percent of people in the developing world, which impedes development by inhibi...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	ESMAP Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCELERATOR EFFECT ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY ACCESS TO MODERN ENERGY AIR POLLUTANTS BULK SUPPLY CAPITAL COSTS CAR BATTERIES CLEAN ENERGY CONSUMER PROTECTION CONSUMERS CONSUMPTION LEVELS DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES DISTRIBUTION COMPANY DISTRIBUTION FRANCHISE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS ECONOMIC GROWTH ELECTRIC LIGHTING ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY BILLS ELECTRICITY COMPANY ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION ELECTRICITY SUPPLY EMISSIONS ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ENERGY PRACTICES ENERGY PRICES ENERGY SECTOR MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE ENGINEERS FITTINGS FLEXIBILITY FLUORESCENT LAMPS FRICTION FUEL FUELS GASES GENERATION GREENHOUSE GRID SUPPLY GROWTH RATE HOUSEHOLD SECTOR ILLEGAL CONNECTIONS INCOME INCOME GROUPS KEROSENE LIFELINE RATE LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS LIVING CONDITIONS LOW-INCOME AREAS LOW-INCOME CONSUMERS LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS LOW-INCOME URBAN HOUSEHOLDS METER READERS METER READING MONOPOLIES MONTHLY CONSUMPTION MOTION NATIONAL BUDGET NUMBER OF KILOWATT-HOURS OVERHEAD COSTS PETROLEUM PETROLEUM GAS POWER COMPANIES POWER DEMAND POWER SECTOR POWER SECTOR REFORMS POWER SYSTEMS PUBLIC SAFETY ROADS RURAL CONSUMERS RURAL ELECTRIFICATION RURAL HOUSEHOLDS SAFETY SANITATION SAVINGS STRUCTURES SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TAX TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELEVISION TEMPERATURE TRANSITION ECONOMIES TRANSMISSION TRANSPORT TREASURY URBAN POPULATION USE OF ELECTRICITY UTILITIES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/10/1675552/peri-urban-electricity-consumers-forgotten-important-group-can-electrify http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20286

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Summary:	The insufficient, and unsustainable supplies of energy, constitute what may be called an "energy poverty" or "resource poverty", affecting some forty percent of people in the developing world, which impedes development by inhibiting investment in productive activities, wastes human resources, further reducing the productivity of current activities, and, threatens the environment through greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollutants. This paper concentrates only on the peri-urban population, because this group needs to be our priority target if we want to rapidly improve electrification in poor households. This is for several reasons: about forty percent of the world's poor live in peri-urban areas, while households in those areas are easier, and less expensive to electrify than un-served rural households, i.e., urban areas are densely populated, and located on, or close to the grid, thus generation transmission, and distribution costs are much lower than isolated rural areas. Moreover, promoting peri-urban electrification could be a win-win solution for utilities, and poor consumers, by preventing illegal connections through a well-planned electrification scheme, that will create a sound environment for a profitable, and expanding business, since peri-urban households are the potential future consumers of the utilities.