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Increasing rural electrification through connection campaigns

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To reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of universal household electrification by 2030,
developing countries are spending billions of dollars to expand access. India, for example, recently undertook
an audacious expansion plan which aimed to electrify every household by December 2018. However, there is
little academic study of strategies to increase electrification rates. We argue that significant transaction costs
inhibit household applications for connections. As evidence, we report the results of a randomized controlled
trial (in 200 communities and 2000 households) in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with a treatment
consisting of an informational campaign about the costs and procedure of applying. We found that households
exposed to the campaign were three times as likely to apply for a connection. Yet actual connection rates
remained unchanged. The results suggest that transaction costs are an important barrier to electrification, but
limited capacity and incentive to expand connections are equally important.

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EJ20246

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Elsevier Ltd. : ., 2020

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'8 p.

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English

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online resource

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Energy Policy 139 (2020) 111291

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Ejurnal

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