An empirical analysis of rural and urban populations’ access to electricity: evidence from Pakistan

Rehman, Abdul; Zhang, Deyuan; Chandio, Abbas Ali; Hussain, Imran

doi:10.1186/s13705-018-0183-y

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“…Therefore, it can be said that "relation/ guanxi" is the key indicator of the stakeholders' satisfaction in any project setting, including REPs. The importance of stakeholders' satisfaction has also been observed in the literature of REPs [42,[52][53][54][55][56].…”

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Stakeholders’ satisfaction as a key determinant of critical success factors in renewable energy projects

2020

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Renewable energy projects (REPs) are critical to providing a clean and sustainable environmental perspective alongside the economic prosperity of any country. Unfortunately, recent trends in renewable energy projects (REPs) are not positive enough regarding their successful completion within the budgeted cost, planned time, proposed quality, and other necessary constraints. Although the pertinent literature has discussed the critical success factors (CSFs) for such projects, their influencing mechanism with respect to the role of key stakeholders is still overlooked. This study recognizes several critical success factors (CSFs) and their influencing mechanisms onto renewable energy projects (REPs) in order to evaluate direct influences onto project success as well as indirect influences through stakeholders' satisfaction (SS) as mediation on the project success of small and medium-sized renewable energy projects (REPs) in Pakistan's energy sector. A sample of about 272 respondents working with renewable energy projects (REPs), including key stakeholders, has been collected to perform data analysis and draw inferences. A structural equation modeling (SEM) approach was used for data analysis and inference drawing. The results show that though there is a positive and direct association between critical success factors (CSFs) and project success, a partial mediating role of stakeholders' satisfaction (SS) between CSFs and project success was still determined. Hence, it was found that CSFs significantly contribute to renewable energy projects (REPs) through mediating influences of stakeholders' satisfaction (SS). The findings confirmed that stakeholders' satisfaction (SS) is a key determinant for critical success factors (CSFs) in renewable energy projects (REPs). Moreover, stakeholders' satisfaction (SS) emerged to be a crucial element for the completion of such projects. The empirical findings of this study might have a useful effect on academicians and the practitioners engaged with renewable energy projects (REPs).

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Section: Stakeholders' Influence In Constructing Successful Renewablementioning

confidence: 75%

Stakeholders’ satisfaction as a key determinant of critical success factors in renewable energy projects

2020

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“…All country panels, i.e., 15 EU countries, have lower elasticities of about 0.12 while the BRIC countries have higher elasticities of about 0.37. Weak substitutability relations between capital and energy determined for all groups were found, excluding the East EU and BRIC countries, demonstrating reverse relations [24]. W. Liu and Ayres [9,25] studied the link of economic performance with energy, and Lean and Smyth [26] with energy usage while Ahmad and Zhao [27] analyzed the link of economic performance to energy investment.…”

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Analyzing long-term empirical interactions between renewable energy generation, energy use, human capital, and economic performance in Pakistan

Fatima

Ahmad

et al. 2019

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background: The current research attempts to systematically investigate the causal interactions between renewable energy generation, aggregated energy use, human capital, and economic performance in Pakistan both in a short-term and long-term test for the period of 1990-2016. Methods: As a primary step, a unit root analysis was conducted employing, among others, an augmented Dickey-Fuller-generalized least squares (ADF-GLS) test. Based on the order of integration I(1), the Johansen and Juselius (JJ) co-integration testing was employed to confirm a long-term causality analysis, which was followed by a vector error correction model (VECM) to calculate the short-run Granger causality analysis. Furthermore, the vector autoregressive (VAR)-based Cholesky test allowed the standard deviation impulse response functions to be generated to explain the responses of variables to arbitrary shocks in the data series under analysis. Results: The empirical findings unearthed the bilateral causal connection between aggregated energy use and economic performance, renewable energy generation and economic performance, and human capital and economic performance. Thus, it confirmed the existence of feedback effects for aggregated energy use, renewable energy generation, and human capital in their relation to economic performance. Likewise, a unilateral positive causal connection was revealed running from renewable energy generation and human capital to aggregated energy use, and from human capital to renewable energy generation in both a long-term and short-term test. Additionally, the causal association running from aggregated energy use and renewable energy generation to economic performance was exposed in a long-term as well as short-term test, hence supporting the growth hypothesis. Conclusions: The findings signified the importance of an enhanced generation of renewable energy along with the promotion of an aggregated energy use for the economic performance in Pakistan.

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“…Electricity is a major source of energy and it is a prime policy issue for sustainable expansion. The accessibility of electricity helps meet household and domestic needs, stimulates export potentials of the country to create employment, reduces poverty, and, ultimately, improves socio-economic development [4,[30][31][32]. Electricity, therefore, plays a key role for the economic progression of a country, which brings much more assistance to all dynamic sectors of an economy [2,33].…”

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“…Their results revealed that usage of electricity leads to economic progression without feedback. Assessing the electricity access impact on economic progress for Pakistan, Reference [30] suggested the long-run positive association among variables. Furthermore, the growth-enhancing impact of electricity access has been confirmed for the urban population.…”

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“…Currently, in Pakistan, the demand of households for electricity consumption is rapidly increasing in parallel with the growth of the country's population. The production of electricity from several sources upholds and develops new approaches, which also covers the improvement of renewable energy technology [30]. Rafique and Rehman [72] reported that, for future prospects, the renewable energy has grown in Pakistan with a totally renewable energy potential of about 167.7 GW, which is more than enough to meet the demand of the country for total electricity consumption.…”

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Empirical Insights into the Long-Run Linkage between Households Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: Macro-Level Empirical Evidence from Pakistan

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This study is a maiden empirical attempt to examine the long-run linkage between households’ usage of energy and economic progression in Pakistan from the period of 1972–2017. The Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) bounds testing method to co-integrate is employed to expose the causality dynamics between the variables such as households’ electricity consumption, households’ gas consumption, population growth, and per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Pakistan. The study adopted three renowned unit root approaches through the use of the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF), the Phillips-Perron (P-P), and Zivot-Andrews (Z&A) tests to check the stationarity of the variables, while the Johansen cointegration technique is also employed to assess the robustness of the long-run association. The validity of outcomes is also checked with casualty and variance decomposition. The estimated results reveal that, in both the short and long run, households’ electricity and gas usage positively affect economic growth, while population growth in the long-run has a negative impact, but the short-run analysis has a positive impact on economic growth in Pakistan. Additionally, the Granger causality and variance decomposition confirm the robustness of outcomes and suggesting a long run association among the variables, and a unidirectional causal link running from three variables to economic growth of Pakistan in the short run.

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An empirical analysis of rural and urban populations’ access to electricity: evidence from Pakistan

Cited by 35 publications

References 36 publications

Stakeholders’ satisfaction as a key determinant of critical success factors in renewable energy projects

Stakeholders’ satisfaction as a key determinant of critical success factors in renewable energy projects

Analyzing long-term empirical interactions between renewable energy generation, energy use, human capital, and economic performance in Pakistan

Empirical Insights into the Long-Run Linkage between Households Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: Macro-Level Empirical Evidence from Pakistan

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