Abstract
Financing rural electrification projects successfully requires the understanding and implementation of certain factors connected wholly or partly to the make-up and functionality of the project. Among these factors are aspects related to project affordability, reliability, sustainability, and present as well as future development. In this paper, a variety of basic financing aspects have been discussed and examined, regardless of the original aim(s) and objective(s) of the project, e. g. whether for the purpose of establishing off-grid electricity supply (in the form of renewable energy system) and/or to extend the supply from the national grid to the town or the village concerned. For these reasons, a number of financial aspects, as well as financial institutes/organisations with their resources and structures, have been examined and discussed. The purpose behind the discussion is simply to provide a window to the world of finance, in particular where rural electrification is concerned. This kind of approach is part of a wider mechanism to help in speeding-up rural electrification in the countryside of the developing countries, in general, and South Asia, in particular.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2012 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR FINANCIAL ENGINEERING & ECONOMICS (CIFER) |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
| Pages | 277-284 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4673-1803-7 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Event | IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics (CIFEr) - New York Duration: 29 Mar 2012 → 30 Mar 2012 |
Conference
| Conference | IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics (CIFEr) |
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| City | New York |
| Period | 29/03/12 → 30/03/12 |
