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Organizational reform in Gujarat?s electricity utility: lessons for revitalizing a bureaucratic service delivery agency by Shah, Tushaar, Mehta, M., Sankar, G., Mondal, S.

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Indian and Gujarat state governments rolling out national solar irrigation investment program based on results of WLE and CCAFS-supported pilot study. Farmers will be able to sell surplus power to electric utility by CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

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A revolution in solar-powered Irrigation: Solar Power as Remunerative Crop (SPaRC) model is being scaled out nationwide in India (WLE-IWMI) by CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems

“…In the model, cooperatives manage a small solar-powered grid for irrigation pumps that sell surplus power to the electric utility.…”
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Metering of agricultural power supply in West Bengal, India: who gains and who loses? by Mukherji, Aditi, Das, B., Majumdar, N., Nayak, N.C., Sethi, R.R., Sharma, Bharat R.

“…At current tariff rates, the electricity utilities are likely to earn less revenue than before. …”
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Time-varying pricing may increase total electricity consumption: Evidence from Costa Rica by Capitán, Tabaré, Alpízar, Francisco, Madrigal-Ballestero, Róger, . Pattanayak, Subhrendu K.

“…We study the implementation of a time-varying pricing (TVP) program by a major electricity utility in Costa Rica. Because of particular features of the data, we use recently developed understanding ofthe two-way fixed effects differences-in-differences estimator along with event-study specifications to interpret our results. …”
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Metering of agricultural power supply in West Bengal, India: who gains and who loses? by Mukherji, Aditi, Das, B., Majumdar, N., Nayak, N.C., Sethi, R.R., Sharma, Bharat R., Banerjee, Partha Sarathi

“…At current tariff rates, the electricity utilities are likely to earn less revenue than before. …”
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Deploying solar pumps at scale in South Asia: opportunities for solarizing agriculture in South Asia by Verma, Shilp, Patel, Kalpana, Neupane, Nilhari, Shrestha, Shisher

“…Driven largely by private investments from millions of small and poor farmers, this infrastructure underpins regional food security for 1.6 billion people, yet it also contributes to severe groundwater depletion, rising greenhouse gas emissions, and chronic financial distress among electricity utilities. Across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, rising energy demand, expanding rural electrification, and abundant solar resources create a strong case for accelerating the transition to solar-powered irrigation. …”
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Groundwater governance through electricity supply management: assessing an innovative intervention in Gujarat, western India by Shah, Tushaar, Bhatt, S., Shah, R.K., Talati, J.

“…A perverse link between energy subsidies and groundwater overdraft has left the state with a bankrupt electricity utility and depleted aquifers, especially since the late 1980s. …”
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Innovations in managing the agriculture, energy and groundwater nexus: evidence from two states in India. by Mukherji, Aditi

“…This in turn brought its own share of problems such as difficulty in accounting for agricultural electricity consumption mounting losses of electricity utilities and deterioration of quality of supply to farmers over the years. …”
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