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There have been various attempts, mostly put into practice through projects, to break the vicious circle of problems in Indian agricultural electrical energy supply. Such projects may be initiated by state governments, foreign development agencies, or are community driven. Projects with high budgets have often focused on large-scale technical interventions, where participation of local stakeholders is not required. In contrast, projects with low budgets have often involved local stakeholders and yielded low-cost technical solutions that can be implemented by farmers. In this chapter, we review recent and ongoing projects and discuss different implementation strategies.

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    An overview of GIZ and KfW projects can be found at http://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/368.html and https://www.kfw.de/International-financing/, respectively.

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    A capacitor is an electrical circuit element that can correct the power factor in an electricity grid. It balances the phase between current and voltage (Dugan 2003; Meier 2006) and can, thus, improve power quality and energy efficiency (see Sect. 4.3).

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  1. Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Berlin, Germany

    Julian Sagebiel

  2. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    Christian Kimmich

  3. Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Malte Müller & Markus Hanisch

  4. cBalance Pvt. Ltd., Pune, Maharashtra, India

    Vivek Gilani

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Sagebiel, J., Kimmich, C., Müller, M., Hanisch, M., Gilani, V. (2016). Strategies and Existing Projects. In: Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Irrigation. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22515-9_3

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