Gers gone wired: Lessons from the Renewable Energy and Rural Electricity Access Project (REAP) in Mongolia

Energy for Sustainable Development

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-40

  Sovacool, Benjamin K ^a   D'Agostino, Anthony L ^a   Bambawale, Malavika Jain ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Energy poverty; Rural energy use; Solar home systems (SHS)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; RURAL AREAS; SOLAR BUILDINGS; WIND TURBINES;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRICITY SERVICE; ENERGY POVERTIES; METHODS OF DATA COLLECTIONS; RURAL ELECTRIFICATION; RURAL ENERGY; SMALL SCALE WIND TURBINES; SOLAR HOME SYSTEM;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; POVERTY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RURAL ELECTRIFICATION; RURAL ENERGY; SOLAR POWER;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 79952314827     PISSN: 09730826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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