Biomass for sustainable development - Lessons for decentralized energy delivery in India – A report by World Bank

The pilot phase of the Village Energy Security Programme has shown several lessons and the need for improvements.

Thus, a decentralized energy program that is focused on performance, backed by greater policy support and a vastly decentralised institutional mechanism for implementation is the way forward.

This report is organized as follows:

• Chapter 1 provides a background of the rural energy scenario in India, describing the unmet energy needs, and the policies and regulatory environment as a rationale for the Village Energy Security Programme.
• Chapter 2 discusses the program design, its key components, and a detailed analysis of its pilot phase performance on institutional, technical, financial, managerial and social aspects, ending with lessons learned.
• The report ends with a chapter on the important lessons with policy and program level recommendations as the way forward for improving the outcomes of decentralized rural energy initiatives in the future.

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