The Multiplier Effect of Energy Access
Published: Jul 31, 2017
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Access to energy resources empowers women, ensures food production, water supply and helps perform many other enabling activities as opposed to debilitating conditions of the energy deprived in Chopta, Uttarakhand.
Abstract: The impact of providing energy access to basic needs such as food, infrastructure and overall development is a no-brainer, but can this interrelationship be institutionalised to measure the multiplier effect of energy access on the needs of societies?
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