Metropolitan areas in developing countries have become centres for concentrated electricity demand. We present here an analysis of the relation between weather variables and peak loads in the Delhi system. A methodology for forecasting peak loads using this model is outlined.

We analyse the potentials of selected efficient appliances (EAs) for air pollutant mitigation and reducing the need for rapidly escalating power generation in India from the national, utility and user perspectives. The study shows that about 10.1% of total cumulative generation and about 7.4,...

User surveys alone do not accurately measure the actual use of improved cookstoves in the field. We present the results of comparing survey-reported and sensor-recorded cooking events, or durations of use, of improved cookstoves in two monitoring studies, in rural Maharashtra, India. The first...

Three billion people cook using traditional fires, and exposure to smoke from cooking remains a persistent and significant environmental health risk factor: household air pollution is estimated to cause 3-4 million premature deaths per year. "Improved cookstoves" could reduce the health risks...

Strong long-term international partnership in science, technology, finance and policy is critical for sustainable field experiments leading to successful commercial deployment of novel technology at community-scale. Although technologies already exist that can remediate arsenic in groundwater,...