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electrification committees that will handle the
day-to-day running of the micro-grid. The
village electrification committees will be the
interface between the operators and the residents. The committee
members will not only decide on the demand of electricity and the
usage but also collection of tariffs.
A broken and dilapidated structure of what used to functional electricity poles and wires.
These structures have not been revived in years ©Subrata Biswas/greenpeace
How is it a bottom-up approach?
Generally, we have seen that in the centralised electricity production
system, the electricity load calculation forecast is based on the
capacity of the power plant, which is in turn based on coal supply
and the transmission and distribution losses. But in decentralised
electricity system – in this case the micro-grid – the electricity load
calculation totally depends on the requirement of one cluster or
the load survey in one cluster. The micro-grid is a 100 kW system
right now that can be scaled up as per the
demand and requirement of the residents.
So instead of a fixed capacity that can cater
to only certain requirements, the capacity of
the micro-grid can be increased as per the
demand. So it is one of the best case studies
for the bottom-up approach.
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