Development of Renewable Energy and Sustainability for Off-Grid Rural Communities of Developing Countries and Energy Efficiency

Developing Countries, (DCs), generally suffer from, sometimes extreme shortage and unavailability of both commercial fuel and non commercial fuel for their energy need. Those off-grid residential houses and community clinics are primarily affected. The main reason can be linked to the ever increasing price of commercial fuel. Since majority of the people living in far distant locations to the electric grid are highly dispersed and have relatively poor access road, the price of any commercial fuel delivered to these places is unfairly increased. The other reason is the absence of Renewable Energy, (RE), technology in these places mostly for the relatively poor economy of the community. On the other hand, there are failed projects of RE technology introduced in some parts of DCs due to several reasons. The failure may be attributed to lack of interest, unawareness of the benefits and spirit of developing and keeping up the technology, to mention a few. Creating awareness of the RE technology and facilitating ownership opportunities through promotional activities and engaging the community in the dissemination process of the technology is essential. This paper, therefore, presents a way to address the energy problem of off grid locations of DCs with a concept of incentive driven approach. This method favorably motivates the locals and initiates government participation in the RE resource development process. The concept of energy efficiency is also addressed by promotion of efficient use of energy, by means of replacing the traditionally used wasteful technology with introduction of energy efficient methodologies and hardware equipments.