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Setu Pelz
Setu Pelz is a Ph.D. candidate at the Reiner Lemoine Institute in Berlin. His Ph.D. research focusses on multidimensional energy poverty assessment, energy access planning, and policy development. He is also a Student Fellow with the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP) at Johns Hopkins SAIS where he works on energy access and just transition in India.
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Energy access for marginalised communities: Evidence from rural India
While overall energy access of Indian households has improved rapidly over the past decade, access to clean fuel is still low as compared to electricity. Besides, social structures and hierarchies continue to substantially influence rural development processes in the country. Using data from a household panel survey conducted in six Indian states during 2015-2018, this article analyses inequities in access to clean fuel and electricity among scheduled castes/tribes.
