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Socio-economic Aspects Influencing Rural Household Adoption of Improved Clean Cook Stoves Case Study: Rwanda
Niyonshuti Emmanuel,
Mushinzimana Isaac
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2021
Pages:
45-50
Received:
18 March 2021
Accepted:
30 March 2021
Published:
23 August 2021
Abstract: The major causes of deforestation worldwide from human activities is the reliance of world population on the biomass fuel for domestic energy consumption through cooking, water boiling, heating and lighting, the usage of biomass in inefficient way increase the fuel demand for the household. Despite of multiple social economic, health and environmental benefit of improved cook stove program, the program failed to capture the recognition worldwide and a set of sociocultural, economic, institutional barriers and cook stove and fuel characteristics contribute to the slow adoption of this program. This paper provides an evidence of household driving factors that play a crucial role in the uptake of improved cook stove empirically in Rwanda. The study was based on fifth integrated household living standards survey (EICV-5) carried by National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda. Using binary logistic regression analysis, the study shows that homeownership, age of household head, household location and household size are the main significant household factors influencing the adoption of improved cook stove while value of cook stove, amount spent on cooking fuel and time spend on cooking fuels are the most significant stove and fuel factors determining the adoption of usage of improved cook stove. The study revealed that for substantially improved rate of adoption they should be consistent and focused cooperation of government and non -governmental organizations to work in parallel for developing energy policy frameworks like dissemination of improved cook stoves.
Abstract: The major causes of deforestation worldwide from human activities is the reliance of world population on the biomass fuel for domestic energy consumption through cooking, water boiling, heating and lighting, the usage of biomass in inefficient way increase the fuel demand for the household. Despite of multiple social economic, health and environmen...
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Review of Energy Storage Technologies for Compressed-Air Energy Storage
Ibrahim Nabil,
Mohamed Mohamed Khairat Dawood,
Tamer Nabil
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2021
Pages:
51-60
Received:
27 April 2021
Accepted:
19 May 2021
Published:
23 August 2021
Abstract: Energy systems play a significant role in harvesting energy from several sources and converting it to the energy forms needed for applications in numerous sectors, e.g., utility, industry, building, and transportation. In the coming years, energy storage will play a key role in an efficient and renewable energy future; more than it does in today’s fossil-based energy economy. There are different strategies for energy storage. Among these strategies, storage of mechanical energy via suitable media is broadly utilized by human beings. Mechanical energy storage systems (MESS) are among the utmost effective and sustainable energy storage systems. There are three main types of mechanical energy storage systems; pumped hydro, flywheel, and compressed air. This review discusses the recent progress in mechanical energy storage systems focusing on compressed air energy storage (CAES). It also discusses the advances and evolution in compressed air energy storage (CAES) technologies which improve the thermal process and incorporate CAES with other subsystems to improve system efficiency and compares these technologies in terms of their performance, capacity, response, and utilizations as well as the challenges facing CAES as emissions that may harm the environment, the consumption of fossil fuels or requiring certain geological formations then modifications and developments to overcome these challenges.
Abstract: Energy systems play a significant role in harvesting energy from several sources and converting it to the energy forms needed for applications in numerous sectors, e.g., utility, industry, building, and transportation. In the coming years, energy storage will play a key role in an efficient and renewable energy future; more than it does in today’s ...
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Modeling Household Cooking Fuel Energy Choice in Rwanda
Mushinzimana Isaac,
Niyonshuti Emmanuel
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2021
Pages:
61-68
Received:
30 March 2021
Accepted:
29 April 2021
Published:
23 August 2021
Abstract: This investigation applies a multinomial logit procedure to demonstrate decisions of fuel for cooking in Rwanda. The decisions considered are five fundamental cooking fuels: wood, charcoal, gas, lamp oil and generator; Using the Integrated Household Living Condition Surveys from 2010 up to 2017 (EICVs 2010-2017) data, the study identifies the driving forces that underpin and support the household's decision of fuel for cooking and investigates the fundamental factors that decide decision of essential cooking fuel choices in Rwanda. The descriptive results showed the higher dependency on biomass cooking fuel among Rwandan households with 84.55 percent for firewood usage and 12 percent for charcoal usage for cooking and the result multinomial logit revealed that location of living arrangement, home possession, household size, type of marriage, household income level, and type of habitant play significant role in explaining the probability of cooking fuel choices within households. Further the results show that clean energy is bound to be utilized in urban families, where household with high income more often use LPG compare to others. The study also showed that main stream of household in Rwanda depend on more on non-clean energy while cooking, and this is more pronounced in rural households.
Abstract: This investigation applies a multinomial logit procedure to demonstrate decisions of fuel for cooking in Rwanda. The decisions considered are five fundamental cooking fuels: wood, charcoal, gas, lamp oil and generator; Using the Integrated Household Living Condition Surveys from 2010 up to 2017 (EICVs 2010-2017) data, the study identifies the drivi...
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Analysis of Household Lighting Fuel Choice in Rwanda: Multinomial Logit Model
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2021
Pages:
69-74
Received:
18 March 2021
Accepted:
29 March 2021
Published:
31 August 2021
Abstract: The overdependence on using traditional fuels for lighting purposes is closely associated to indoor air pollution, environmental humiliation and high opportunity cost for women and children and consequently affect household well-being, the social economic welfare of deprived population in developing nations to be improved there should consider the adoption and usage of modern lighting services as very important. This paper identifies the determining control factors that influence the fuel energy choice for lighting purposes in Rwanda by applying the Multinomial logit regression to the national representative survey at household level data. The study revealed that the households with higher income are adopting to use the cleaner and modern fuel energy source, confirming the hypothesis for energy ladder. Not only household income exerting impact on the fuel energy choice for lighting, the other fuel choices significant determining variables in Rwanda are: number of the rooms occupied by household, type of dwelling for household, age of the household head, whether the household head has formal education level, the household size, type of the habitant for the household and the location of the household. This paper suggests deployment and utilization of solar potentiality for supplying the cleaner and modern fuel energy for lighting purposes in the remote area of Rwanda.
Abstract: The overdependence on using traditional fuels for lighting purposes is closely associated to indoor air pollution, environmental humiliation and high opportunity cost for women and children and consequently affect household well-being, the social economic welfare of deprived population in developing nations to be improved there should consider the ...
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