PerspectivesData for development: The case for an Indian energy information administration
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2021, Energy Research and Social ScienceCitation Excerpt :This finding reinforces the need for policymakers to shift attention from physical access to electricity in the form of wires connecting neighborhoods and households, to the quality of electricity supplied to households in order to achieve the goal of 24x7 power for all [[1]1: 40]. One of the policy implications of this shift is the need for timely and appropriate data to inform policymakers, so that they can target investments most effectively [56]. While data from the Government of India show that almost all households are now electrified, the household data that we examine, as well as household data from other surveys, indicate persistent variation in hours of supply.
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2019, Energy PolicyCitation Excerpt :They observe that energy data is currently inconsistently available, comes in varied forms, and is housed in different data sets that may not align with governance structures. Rai et al. (2017), with reference to India, similarly argue that there are gaps in national energy data and that more data, consistency, and national organisation is required, explaining how: “…the world's second most populous and fastest growing large economy does not have a singular central body in charge of maintaining and disseminating India's energy data, let alone analysing it.” (
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2019, Energy Research and Social ScienceCitation Excerpt :Two respondents highlighted real community needs are not appropriately reflected in the policies which might be a result of the absence of a central electricity data repository in the country. A similar finding was discussed in a paper by [73]. Both respondents also mentioned the lack of coordination between projects run by the state and central government agencies [74] and one of these respondents stated:
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