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- Rural Electrification Administration (1981): Rural Lines—USA: The Story of Cooperative Rural Electrification
Excerpts from the Preface: This revised edition of Rural Lines—USA is a tribute to the people who helped organize this Nation's rural electric cooperatives. ... Wherever you looked, from Alaska to Florida, from Maine to California, rural communities produced the kind of leaders who could get the job done.
RePEc:ags:usdami:319871 Save to MyIDEAS - Rural Electrification Administration (1939): A Guide for Members of REA Cooperatives
Excerpts from the Report: This booklet will tell you how effective cooperative enterprise can be in rural electrification. ... Aid to cooperative rural electrification projects became a direct concern of the Department of Agriculture on July 1, 1939, when REA was made a unit of the Department. ... Along with our other activities, rural electrification, cooperatively accomplished, will continue to move forward.
RePEc:ags:usdami:319867 Save to MyIDEAS - Yadoo, Annabel & Cruickshank, Heather (2010): The value of cooperatives in rural electrification
However, rural electrification offered little by way of market incentives for profit-seeking private companies and was often neglected. As a consequence, delivery models for rural electrification need to change. This paper will review the experiences of various rural electrification delivery models that have been established in developing countries, including concessionary models, dealership approaches and the strengthening of small and medium-sized energy businesses. ... It is shown that although there is no magic bullet solution to deliver rural electrification, if offered appropriate financial and institutional support, socially orientated cooperative businesses can be a willing, efficient and effective means of extending and managing rural electricity services. It is expected that this paper will be of particular value to policy-makers, donors, project planners and implementers currently working in the field of rural electrification.
RePEc:eee:enepol:v:38:y:2010:i:6:p:2941-2947 Save to MyIDEAS - Rural Electrification Administration (1990): A Brief History of the Rural Electric and Telephone Programs
Excerpts from the report: The Rural Electrification Administration (REA) is a credit agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture which assists rural electric and telephone organizations in obtaining the financing required to provide electric and telephone service in rural areas. ... REA was given its own statutory authorization by the Rural Electrification Act of May 20, 1936. ... Federal support was needed to electrify rural America because most of the established utilities served high density areas and did not extend lines to farmers and other rural residents because such investments were not considered to be feasible. ... Both the rural Telephone and rural Electric programs of REA have been successful in achieving their goals.
RePEc:ags:usdami:319872 Save to MyIDEAS - Rural Electrification Administration (1941): Electricity for the Farm through REA
Excerpts from the Foreword: The Rural Electrification Administration is an agency of the Federal Government. ... The reader who wishes a full understanding of the mechanics and significance of the program can do no better than to visit one of the hundreds of farmer-controlled rural electric power systems that REA has financed.
RePEc:ags:usdami:319869 Save to MyIDEAS - Torero, Maximo (2014): The Impact of Rural Electrification
Rigorous impact evaluation that includes appropriately selected control groups must be a part of rural electrification program designs. ... Large scale rural electrification programs will provide an opportunity to test if the results from small scale impact evaluations translate to other settings. ... They can shed light on what are the most welfare-enhancing policy options when deciding what types of infrastructure to provide in rural areas, and especially to poor rural households. Finally, we reiterate the need to use an objective function that casts a wider net when deciding where to place electrification programs. ... By using the isoprofit and cost minimization framework described, rural electrification programs have the opportunity to reach more poor households and have larger impacts in the lives of the rural poor by providing new opportunities and enhancing the synergies between the agricultural and non-agricultural sector.
RePEc:pra:mprapa:61425 Save to MyIDEAS - Bensch, Gunther & Kluve, Jochen & Peters, Jörg (2011): Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators.
RePEc:zbw:rwirep:284 Save to MyIDEAS - Fetter, T. Robert & Usmani, Faraz (2024): Fracking, farmers, and rural electrification in India
Leveraging population-based discontinuities in the contemporaneous roll-out of India’s national rural electrification scheme, we show that access to electricity increased total employment and non-agricultural employment in villages affected by this exogenous economic shock, but had no impact on labor markets elsewhere. This combination of two natural experiments highlights how complementary economic conditions drive heterogeneity in the labor-market impacts of rural electrification.
RePEc:eee:deveco:v:170:y:2024:i:c:s0304387824000579 Save to MyIDEAS - Javadi, F.S. & Rismanchi, B. & Sarraf, M. & Afshar, O. & Saidur, R. & Ping, H.W. & Rahim, N.A. (2013): Global policy of rural electrification
Energy poverty and lack of electricity in the rural area exacerbate the poverty of the developing countries. ... Currently, Sub-Sahara Africa with only 14.2% of rural electrification has the first rank in the world with lowest access to electricity, in that region around 585 million citizens has almost no access to electricity. The present study focuses on the general global policies to electrify the rural areas. ... In the present work, different technologies for rural electrification are taken into account in two major categories of grid connected and off-grid systems. Furthermore, based on sustainable development with emphasis on environmental consideration, the feasibility of electrification by using different types of renewable energies such as solar, biomass, hydro, wind and wave have been studied.
RePEc:eee:rensus:v:19:y:2013:i:c:p:402-416 Save to MyIDEAS - Borhanazad, H. & Mekhilef, S. & Saidur, R. & Boroumandjazi, G. (2013): Potential application of renewable energy for rural electrification in Malaysia
Energy poverty and lack of electricity in rural areas exacerbate the poverty of the developing countries. In Malaysia, 3.8% of the population lives below the poverty line and most of them are settled in rural areas. ... In this study, the potential for applying renewable sources – solar, wind and hydropower – for rural electrification is investigated, especially in the poorest States. A comparative study on rural electrification policies, in order to have community approval, appropriate siting and financial benefits for the rural community, while considering the three categories of social, institutional and economic issues, is also examined. Finally, the Malaysian policies of rural electrification by applying renewable sources are explained.
RePEc:eee:renene:v:59:y:2013:i:c:p:210-219 Save to MyIDEAS