Figure 1. Consumer Surplus for Lighting (Graphic: Doug Barnes) By Doug Barnes The concept of consumer surplus in measuring the benefit...

By Doug Barnes For several years I have been involved in a project to understand why the electricity connection rates in India are not hi...

Click Image for Amazon "Look Inside" I recently published a new book on the impact of rural electrification in develop...

By Doug Barnes  Rural Energy and Development, Published 1996 In 1996 I wrote "It is hard not to be daunted by the scale of p...

 By Doug Barnes India Traditional Stove: Credit C. Carnemark Recently I participated in a very interesting workshop at Yale Un...