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    People's participation in rural electrification -A successful case
    (2008) Kamalapur, G.D.; Yaragatti, R.Y.; Karajgi, S.B.
    Rural electrification is an integral component of poverty alleviation and rural growth of a nation. A developing nation, like India has 72.2 percent people living in rural areas. Still, electricity has not played an effective role in the socioeconomic growth of villages .The Government of India has an ambitious target of providing electricity to all villages by 2008 and all rural households by 2012. Steps are already initiated with Rural Electric Corporation, Rural Electricity Supply Technology Mission, State Electricity Boards led reforms, Reforms in Power Sector, Electricity Act 2003,etc. An attempt has been made in this paper to assess the present status of rural electrification in India and the major factors contributing to rural electrical distribution. Steps initiated by the Government of India through Rural Electric Corporation (REC) and a successful case study of the people's participation model is presented. © 2008 IEEE.
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    Electrification in rural areas of India and consideration of SHS
    (2010) Kamalapur, G.D.; Yaragatti, U.R.
    Rural electrification is an integral component of poverty alleviation and rural growth of a nation. In India, electricity has not played effective role in the socio-economic growth of village. Government of India has ambitious target of providing electricity to all villages by 2008 and all rural households by 2012. Steps are initiated with Rural Electric Corporation, State Electricity Boards, Reforms in Power sector. Ever increasing demand of electrical energy is causing a large gap in generation and load demand. All the requirement of energy cannot be fully met with conventional grid supply so, an alternative energy source has to be found out for this purpose. Therefore it has become necessary to explore the applications of distributed energy sources which are inevitable to meet the energy requirements. An attempt has been made in this paper to assess the features of rural electrification in India and a simple cost comparison of Solar Home Systems (SHS) with grid supply in deep rural areas. ©2010 IEEE.
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    Human Muscle Energy Harvesting: Models and Application for Low Power Loads
    (IEEE Computer Society help@computer.org, 2018) Shenoy, B.B.; Laxminidhi, L.; Shripathi Acharya, U.S.; Mitra, J.
    This paper presents models for human muscle power which can be harvested and utilized for low power applications. The low power application considered in this paper is the case of off-grid rural electrification, where a person in a rural area uses a bicycle-based human power generating system to charge a battery for the purpose of lighting his home with a few low-wattage LED lamps during periods of necessity. In this regard, two methods to convert energy from human muscle activity into useful electricity by utilizing the commonly available bicycle are proposed and presented with hardware results. The presented hardware results prove that power of the order of 50 W can be successfully generated using these methods. Another important feature is that, the methodology involved in generating useful electricity is carbon-free and power can be generated at any given point of time regardless of location or the associated climatic condition. © 2018 IEEE.
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    Sustainable Off-Grid Electricity Generation System for Low Power Lighting in Remote Locations
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020) Shenoy, B.B.; Mitra, J.; Shripathi Acharya, U.; Laxminidhi, T.
    This paper proposes an environmental friendly and sustainable approach to generate electricity for small lighting applications in rural and remote locations. In the proposed system, human muscle energy, abundantly available in rural and remote locations, has been converted into electrical energy to be stored in an alternative energy storage device, e.g. a supercapacitor. The usual bicycle with a minor modification is plugged to a charging platform. The charging platform has a power processing circuit and a Permanent Magnet Direct Current generator. The system has the ability to power up a 1 W white LED lamp for a duration of approximately 60 minutes, when the bicycle is pedaled for 4 minutes. The proposed system is not only eco-friendly, but also effectively caters to the challenges posed by seasonal variations and locational disadvantages and is targeted specifically for locations which are not having access to the power grid. © 2020 IEEE.