The North Eastern Region (NER) of India stretches across the eastern foothills of the Himalayan mountain range. Geographically, the region is connected to the other parts of the country through a small...
The development community needs innovative ways to collect systematic and geographically precise data about electrified regions to identify focus areas where collective actions from policymakers and other...
There is no one definition of the smart grid concept. Instead, smart grids are defined differently around the world to reflect local requirements and goals. What is clear, however, is that the grids of...
The control systems of today’s smart power-distribution grids have evolved significantly. Such systems improve system reliability by reducing the frequency and duration of outages. They also optimize asset...
SCADA/EMS and SCADA/DMS systems ensure that power grids are efficient, resilient, and able to adapt to changes in generation, transmission, and distribution. Advancing technology is making SCADA systems...
Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) provides significant benefits to utilities around the world. Although it is entering the mainstream, technical concerns, policy challenges, capacity, and will in...
Since fiscal year 2010 the World Bank has supported 20 smart grid projects in 19 countries and all six Bank regions. Valued at 960 million dollars - a quarter of all Bank support for transmission and distribution...
Simple economic principles tell us that investment begets investment and wealth creates wealth. Investment of money alone, however, is seldom enough to trigger this virtuous cycle, time, effort and substantial...
Big data can sound remote and lacking a human dimension, with few obvious links to development and impacting the lives of the poor. Concepts such as anti-poverty targeting, market access or rural electrification...
SJVN Limited (SJVNL), a mini ratna1 public sector undertaking of the Government of India (GoI), implemented the World Bank funded 412 megawatt (MW) run-of-the-river hydro power project at Rampur in Himachal...
The authors report on a systematic ground-based validation of DMSP-OLS night lights imagery to detect rural electrification in Vietnam. Based on an original survey of village-level units in Vietnam, this...