The book provides comprehensive understanding of energy poverty. The central focus of this book is towards understanding ‘demands realism vis a vis demand side management’ in diverse spaces and cultures of energy consumption, which define the rural energy landscape of India. The other focus lies on empirical evidence collection for an incisive understanding of energy poverty.  The text also unravels the trajectory of various Centralized Rural Electrification policies to understand the rural electrification process (its conception, design and execution). Another outstanding feature of the book is the connect between the text and the context via assessment of renewable energy resource potential for solar and biogas across regions.  weiterlesen