Access to Sustainable Energy Off-Grid Options for Rural Areas

Abstract

Energy is widely acknowledged as one of the most important resources for both human and economic progress. There is a significant reciprocal relationship between economic growth and energy use. Energy resources in rural and isolated locations are under significant strain due to the massive growth in demand from the commercial, industrial, residential, and agricultural sectors. Through Niti Aayog and other ministries, India has implemented a number of policies and plans to generate sustainable energy for rural areas. However, in order to achieve sustainability, additional holistic refining is needed. Utilizing renewable energy sources can be viewed as an excellent way to bridge the supply and demand gap in rural areas. In order to create an integrated policy structure in a thorough way, it has been hypothesized that strong descriptive policy aspects for the Rural Renewable Energy System in the Indian context must be identified. This would concretize the key descriptive policy aspects while also reducing complexity to a greater degree.