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Since its establishment in 1996, the nonprofit company Grameen Shakti (GS) has installed almost half a million solar home systems (SHS), 132,000 cookstoves, and 13,300 biogas plants among 3.1 million beneficiaries. They plan to ramp up their expansion so that by 2015, more than 1.5 million SHS are in place along with 100,000 biogas units and 5 million improved cookstoves. This article describes GS's current activities, the contours of its programs, and likely reasons for its success. It also explores the remaining challenges facing GS and distils common lessons for other energy development assistance projects and programs around the world. After detailing research methods consisting primarily of research interviews and site visits, the article briefly explores the history of GS and summarizes its three most prominent programs. The article then identifies six distinct benefits to their programsdexpansion of energy access, less deforestation and fewer greenhouse gas emissions, price savings, direct employment and income generation, improved public health, and better technologydbefore discussing challenges related to staff retention and organizational growth, living standards, technic

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Author

Benjamin K. Sovacool; Ira Martina Drupady

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Thomas Telford; Elsevier ; Thomas Telford Ltd.; Elsevier Ltd.; ICE Publishing Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1751-4223)

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)