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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111291
	Increasing rural electrification through connection campaigns
	Blankenship B.; Kennedy R.; Mahajan A.; Wong J.C.Y.; Urpelainen J.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0301-4215
卷号	139
英文摘要	To reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of universal household electrification by 2030, developing countries are spending billions of dollars to expand access. India, for example, recently undertook an audacious expansion plan which aimed to electrify every household by December 2018. However, there is little academic study of strategies to increase electrification rates. We argue that significant transaction costs inhibit household applications for connections. As evidence, we report the results of a randomized controlled trial (in 200 communities and 2000 households) in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with a treatment consisting of an informational campaign about the costs and procedure of applying. We found that households exposed to the campaign were three times as likely to apply for a connection. Yet actual connection rates remained unchanged. The results suggest that transaction costs are an important barrier to electrification, but limited capacity and incentive to expand connections are equally important. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Electrification; Energy; India; Public services
学科领域	Costs; Developing countries; Rural areas; Actual connections; Electrification; Energy; Household applications; India; Public services; Randomized controlled trial; Rural electrification; Electric utilities; energy planning; incentive; public service; rural electrification; rural energy; transaction cost; India; Uttar Pradesh
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Costs; Developing countries; Rural areas; Actual connections; Electrification; Energy; Household applications; India; Public services; Randomized controlled trial; Rural electrification; Electric utilities; energy planning; incentive; public service; rural electrification; rural energy; transaction cost; India; Uttar Pradesh
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/118100
作者单位	University of Miami, 1300 Campo Sano Ave., Office 140E, Coral Gables, FL 33146, United States; University of Houston, 3551 Cullen Boulevard, Room 447, Houston, TX 77204, United States; Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, K229, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States; London School of Economics, Department of Geography and Environment, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, Ireland; Johns Hopkins SAIS, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Blankenship B.,Kennedy R.,Mahajan A.,et al. Increasing rural electrification through connection campaigns[J],2020,139.
APA	Blankenship B.,Kennedy R.,Mahajan A.,Wong J.C.Y.,&Urpelainen J..(2020).Increasing rural electrification through connection campaigns.Energy Policy,139.
MLA	Blankenship B.,et al."Increasing rural electrification through connection campaigns".Energy Policy 139(2020).