An Open-door Immature Policy for Rural Electrification:  A Case Study of Afghanistan

Mir Sayed Shah Danish; Najib Rahman Sabory; Sayed Mir Shah Danish; Gul Ahmad Ludin; Atsushi Yona; Tomonobu Senjyu

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An Open-door Immature Policy for Rural Electrification: A Case Study of Afghanistan

Mir Sayed Shah Danish, Najib Rahman Sabory, Sayed Mir Shah Danish, Gul Ahmad Ludin, Atsushi Yona, Tomonobu Senjyu

Published in International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy (Volume 6, Issue 3-1)

Received: 9 June 2016 Accepted: 16 June 2016 Published: 22 November 2016

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Electricity policy as a tool for enhancing the persistent of energy resources' appropriate exploitation and deployment are known essential. Conversely, an open-door immature energy policy can lead a nation to an irrecoverable consequences. In this paper, electrification policy-related gaps and their worst-case scenarios and reasons behind the dominant increasing trend for decentralized PV system application are addressed in form of a case study. Over the last 13 years, numbers of PV rooftop projects have been inaugurated around the country but due to immature energy policy for ensuring the PV project life-span; excluding few, all the PV systems in medium and large scales villages are failed due to poor maintenance and operation. In the present approach, techno-economic analysis of customary implementation of PV systems are developed. The methodology is first conducted to develop cost-effective centralized PV system. Then, a comparative analysis of techno-economical approach of both centralized and decentralized PV systems are discussed, which is associated with systems' advantages, disadvantages, practicability studies, and barriers.

Published in	International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy (Volume 6, Issue 3-1) This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Energy Design and Exploitation
DOI	10.11648/j.ijrse.s.2017060301.12
Page(s)	8-13
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Electricity Policy, PV Systems, Rural Electrification, Techno-economic Analysis

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Mir Sayed Shah Danish, Najib Rahman Sabory, Sayed Mir Shah Danish, Gul Ahmad Ludin, Atsushi Yona, et al. (2016). An Open-door Immature Policy for Rural Electrification: A Case Study of Afghanistan. International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy, 6(3-1), 8-13. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijrse.s.2017060301.12

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Mir Sayed Shah Danish; Najib Rahman Sabory; Sayed Mir Shah Danish; Gul Ahmad Ludin; Atsushi Yona, et al. An Open-door Immature Policy for Rural Electrification: A Case Study of Afghanistan. Int. J. Sustain. Green Energy 2016, 6(3-1), 8-13. doi: 10.11648/j.ijrse.s.2017060301.12

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Mir Sayed Shah Danish, Najib Rahman Sabory, Sayed Mir Shah Danish, Gul Ahmad Ludin, Atsushi Yona, et al. An Open-door Immature Policy for Rural Electrification: A Case Study of Afghanistan. Int J Sustain Green Energy. 2016;6(3-1):8-13. doi: 10.11648/j.ijrse.s.2017060301.12

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Mir Sayed Shah Danish

Energy Engineering Department, Kabul University, Kabul, Afghanistan
Najib Rahman Sabory

Energy Engineering Department, Kabul University, Kabul, Afghanistan
Sayed Mir Shah Danish

Electrical Department, Technical Teachers Training Academy (TTTA), Kabul, Afghanistan
Gul Ahmad Ludin

Electrical and Electronics Department, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
Atsushi Yona

Electrical and Electronics Department, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
Tomonobu Senjyu

Electrical and Electronics Department, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

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Mir Sayed Shah Danish; Najib Rahman Sabory; Sayed Mir Shah Danish; Gul Ahmad Ludin; Atsushi Yona, et al. An Open-door Immature Policy for Rural Electrification: A Case Study of Afghanistan. Int. J. Sustain. Green Energy 2016, 6(3-1), 8-13. doi: 10.11648/j.ijrse.s.2017060301.12

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Mir Sayed Shah Danish, Najib Rahman Sabory, Sayed Mir Shah Danish, Gul Ahmad Ludin, Atsushi Yona, et al. An Open-door Immature Policy for Rural Electrification: A Case Study of Afghanistan. Int J Sustain Green Energy. 2016;6(3-1):8-13. doi: 10.11648/j.ijrse.s.2017060301.12

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