Benefits from a renewable energy village electrification system

Alex Zahnd and Haddix McKay Kimber

Renewable Energy, 2009, vol. 34, issue 2, 362-368

Abstract: More than 100 years after Edison's life changing discovery, 1.6–2 billion people around the globe still live without light, in dark and smoke filled homes. The remote and impoverished Himalayan villages of upper Humla, in north-west Nepal, belong to some of the 2.4 billion people who still depend on the use of traditional biomass for their daily energy services such as cooking, heating and light. These activities on open fireplaces have a direct chronic impact on the health and extremely low life expectancy of the women and children along with devastating deforestation.

Keywords: Poverty; Elementary village electrification; Holistic community development (HCD); Indoor air pollution; Renewable energy; Human development index (HDI) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2008.05.011

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