**7. Analysis of alternative designs**

Due to the characteristic dispersion of communities, rural electrification projects tend to install individual systems at each point of consumption, as the cases presented in this paper. Alternatively, design of a single point of generation and distribution of electricity with microgrids (Kirubi et al. 2009) has its advantages:


In particular, the electrification with microgrids in Turco and Challapata would have avoided some of the problems identified in the assessment:

