Final Report Project Code 2010DG02 and 2010ST03 Solar Multi Utility Centres in Madhya Pradesh: Baseline and Technology Details Supported by NFA © The Energy and Resources Institute 2013 Suggested format for citation T E R I. 2013 Solar Multi Utility centres in Madhya Pradesh: Baseline and change assessment New Delhi: The Energy and Resources Institute. For more information Project Monitoring Cell T E R I Tel. 2468 2100 or 2468 2111 Darbari Seth Block E-mail [email protected] IHC Complex, Lodhi Road Fax 2468 2144 or 2468 2145 New Delhi – 110 003 Web www.teriin.org India India +91 • Delhi (0)11 ii Table of contents 1. INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY ................................................................................. 1 1.1 Scope of the Report .......................................................................................................... 3 1.2 A Brief Note on Institutional Framework ..................................................................... 3 1.3 Survey Design ................................................................................................................... 4 1.4 Utility of the Report ......................................................................................................... 4 2. SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS: REPORTING OF VILLAGE AND LIVELIHOOD PROFILE ............ 6 2.1 Chikali ................................................................................................................................ 6 2.2 Imaliya ............................................................................................................................... 6 2.3 Inference ........................................................................................................................... 7 2.4 Key Points ......................................................................................................................... 7 3. SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS: REPORTING OF BASELINE .......................................................... 8 3.1 Demography .................................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Livelihood Status .......................................................................................................... 10 3.3 Employment Status ....................................................................................................... 12 3.4 Functional Literacy and Training ............................................................................... 13 3.5 Involvement of Women in Economic Activities ........................................................ 14 3.6 Income Security .............................................................................................................. 14 3.7 Cooking Energy .............................................................................................................. 15 3.8 Household lighting ........................................................................................................ 18 3.9 Fuel usage for livelihood purpose ............................................................................... 20 3.10Educational Level .......................................................................................................... 21 3.11Health ........................................................................................................................... 24 3.12 Ownership of Assets .................................................................................................... 26 3.13 About Operating groups ............................................................................................. 28 3.14 Inference ......................................................................................................................... 28 4. RENEWABLE RESOURCE ASSESSMENT AND TECHNOLOGY DETAILS ............................. 29 4.1 Introduction to Solar Multi Utility (SMU) ................................................................. 30 4.2 Design & Development of an Appropriate SMU ...................................................... 30 4.3 Clean Energy resource Assessment ............................................................................. 33 4.4 Renewable Energy Technology (RET) Assessments ................................................. 37 4.5 Technical Specifications ................................................................................................ 38 4.6 System Technical Details............................................................................................... 40 iii List of tables Table 1: Details regarding Peak load and Energy requirement ..................................................... 2 Table 2: Gender distribution across benefiting operating groups households ........................... 8 Table 3: Distribution by age in absolute terms across the villages ............................................... 9 Table 4: BPL Card holders in absolute and percentage (with base as total households surveyed) ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Table 5: Distribution of households based on primary income source ..................................... 10 Table 6: Distribution of households based on secondary income ............................................... 11 Table 7: Employment status ............................................................................................................. 12 Table 8: Members migrated to other villages/towns for employment ...................................... 12 Table 9: Level of involvement of members (aged 7-14) in income generation activities ......... 13 Table 10: Status of functional literacy and formal training among the adult members ........... 13 Table 11: Distribution of households by women's involvement in Income generation ........... 14 Table 12: Distribution of households by total cash income in the last one year ....................... 15 Table 13: Distribution of households by total cash saving as on February 2012 ...................... 15 Table 14: Distribution of households by primary cooking fuel ................................................... 16 Table 15: Count of households by secondary cooking fuel .......................................................... 16 Table 16: Distribution of households by primary source of firewood collection ...................... 17 Table 17: Distribution of households by members responsible for firewood collection ......... 17 Table 18: Distribution of households by hours spend on fuel collection ................................... 18 Table 19: Distribution of households by electrification status ..................................................... 18 Table 20: Distribution of households by primary device used for lighting during evening hours ............................................................................................................................................ 19 Table 21: Distribution of households by the duration of usage of bulb/tube light/CFL in a day ............................................................................................................................................... 19 Table 22: Distribution of households by usage quantity of kerosene for lighting .................... 20 Table 23: Fuel usage for livelihood purpose .................................................................................. 20 Table 24: Count of children attending primary and secondary school ...................................... 21 Table 25: Reasons for dropping out from school ........................................................................... 22 Table 26: Distribution of households by the average number of hours for which children study ............................................................................................................................................ 23 Table 27: Distribution of households by the average number of hours for which children study at Home ......................................................................................................................... 23 iv Table 28: Distribution of households by accessibility level to computers for children in between 6-17 ............................................................................................................................... 24 Table 29: Distribution of households by health institutions assessed by them ......................... 24 Table 30: Distribution of households by health problems reported by the members in the last 1 year ........................................................................................................................................... 25 Table 31: Distribution of households by primary source of drinking water and distance from the water source ......................................................................................................................... 25 Table 32: Distribution of households by quality of drinking water ............................................ 26 Table 33: Distribution of households by the type of dwelling..................................................... 27 Table 34: Distribution of households by telephone facility available ......................................... 27 Table 35: Distribution of households by selected assets ............................................................... 27 Table 36: Details of livelihood applications based on SPV technology ....................................