Development of web based decision making tool for off-grid power projects for South Asian countries
Student name: Mr Piyush Sohani
Guide: Dr V V N Kishore
Year of completion: 2013
Host Organisation: TERI University
Abstract: Around 600 million people in South Asia do not have access to electricity. South Asia
accounts for one fifth of the world population and comprises of developing nations like India,
Nepal, Bangladesh, Srilanka, Bhutan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Maldives. Despite of having
rich renewable energy resources, region is unable to tap its resources and unable to supply
electricity for rural areas. Decentralized off-grid electrification is one possible way to provide
electricity to rural areas, which requires extensive assessment of demand pattern, available
renewable energy resources and their long term availability, technical feasibility and
economic viability. It is very important to have enough information for the developer to
study various parameters properly before taking important decisions for off-grid projects. We
understood this need, and we have tried to develop an online tool “DMT – OASYS†which
would be able to provide necessary data to the user. This tool provides district level
information of demography and geography, electricity access at household level, local
economic situation, renewable energy resources, technologies and policies and financing
options for four South Asian countries like India, Nepal, Srilanka and Bangladesh. This tool
also contain a user friendly excel based tool to compare off-grid technologies.
Keywords: DMT – OASYS, Off-grid electricity, Techno-economic, Decentralized
