Appliance Ownership and Aspirations among Electric Grid and Home Solar Households in Rural Kenya / Kenneth Lee, Edward Miguel, Catherine Wolfram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Kenneth.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Miguel, Edward.

Wolfram, Catherine.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21949.

NBER working paper series no. w21949

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

In Sub-Saharan Africa, there are active debates about whether increases in energy access should be driven by investments in electric grid infrastructure or small-scale "home solar" systems (e.g., solar lanterns and solar home systems). We summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of appliance ownership and aspirations. Our data suggest that home solar is not a substitute for grid power. Furthermore, the environmental advantages of home solar are likely to be relatively small in countries like Kenya, where grid power is primarily derived from non-fossil fuel sources

Notes:

Print version record

January 2016.