Identifying Economic and Clean Strategies to Provide Electricity in Remote Rural Areas: Main-Grid Extension vs. Distributed Electricity Generation
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renewable; energy access; distributed generation; microgrid; emissions; capacity expansion planning; rural electricity; solar PV; wind power; batteries;All these keywords.
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