Energy poverty in rural Bangladesh

Barnes, Douglas F.; Khandker, Shahidur R.; Samad, Hussain A.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.014

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“…Therefore, for the initial stage of our analysis we use annual household expenditures on coal as the dependent variable. This approach is used by Rehdanz 22 in studies of household energy spending and Barnes et al 25 and Khandker et al 26 in studies of energy poverty. Using coal expenditures instead of coal quantity as the dependent variable does not affect estimation results, with one exception.…”

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“…The authors showed that in Armenia, Moldova, and Kyrgyz Republic, the budget share of heating expenditures of the poor was twice the share of the non-poor. Barnes et al 25 and Khandker et al 26 analyzed household energy demand in Bangladesh and India, respectively. They showed that as household income decreased, energy consumption decreased, but only to a certain minimum level required to maintain a lower bound of welfare.…”

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Household Coal Demand in Rural Kazakhstan: Subsidies, Efficiency, and Alternatives

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Atakhanova

2017

Energy and Policy Research

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In 2012, 32% of Kazakhstan's population nationwide, including 70% of rural households, used coal as a primary source of space heating energy. Equally dramatic is the statistic that the average household annual consumption of coal increased by 44% between 2002 and 2012, from 3.9-5.8 tons to 5.6-8.4 tons depending on the region. This paradoxical increase and the high use of coal in a country with plentiful oil and gas reserves along with coal's negative effects stimulated our interest in investigating the determinants of household coal demand, how subsidies may have shaped its use, and how the government might put its money to better use in providing a cleaner and more sustainable landscape. By estimating two demand models (based on household-level cross-section and household-cohort pseudo-panel data), we demonstrate that energy subsidy reform will reduce coal demand by 30% in the short run and 50% in the long run. In addition, increasing efficiency of all rural houses to that of the houses built after 1990 will decrease coal demand by at least 12%. Finally, we discuss the importance of natural gas and renewable energy sources in enabling the transition of rural households away from coal. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Household Coal Demand in Rural Kazakhstan: Subsidies, Efficiency, and Alternatives

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“…These changes require an explanation. Barnes et al [17] show that 58% of rural households in Bangladesh are energy poor while 45% of them are also income poor. As a result, households have no access to energy if their income is below the threshold level.…”

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“…1 shows that most of the country's commercial energy is sourced from natural gas (about 80%), of which about 41% is used to produce electricity. In fiscal year 2013, about 36,482 Gigawatt hours (GWh) was produced in Bangladesh, of which 29.02% was used in the industrial sector [17]. The domestic sector consumed most of this electricity (47.99%).…”

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Exploring the depth of energy penetration in economic advancement: Perspective of Bangladesh

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Hossain

Hasanuzzaman

2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…Around 45 percent of the rural population is income poor and 58 percent is energy poor which is the demand based measurement of energy poverty [1]. In rural areas of Bangladesh people mostly rely on biomass to meet their cooking energy need.…”

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A Review of Potential Renewable Energy Preference in Rural Area of Bangladesh

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2017

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Abstract:Khulna is located in the south western part of Bangladesh. Khulna is the third largest city of Bangladesh where the livelihood depends on mostly agricultural practices and livestock farming. Thus there might have significant potential for biogas production. From this point of view the present study has been taken into consideration. A structured questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the plenty of livestock resources, their energy consumption pattern, biogas production, and replacement of traditional energy consumption with biogas in 80 households which is selected randomly. Study found that total manure production is 3080125.5 kg/yr and residues production is 102252.34 kg/yr. 94 percent of the households are still using mud stoves as their first priority. Useful cooking energy demand in the case of surveyed area comes out to be 77420 kWh per year. The total biogas demand of the study area to provide cooking gas and electricity is 56981.5 m 3 per year whereas the total potential biogas production is 125838.18 m 3 /yr in the study area. The potential produced biogas will completely fulfill the biogas demand in the study area.

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Energy poverty in rural Bangladesh

Cited by 288 publications

References 10 publications

Household Coal Demand in Rural Kazakhstan: Subsidies, Efficiency, and Alternatives

Household Coal Demand in Rural Kazakhstan: Subsidies, Efficiency, and Alternatives

Exploring the depth of energy penetration in economic advancement: Perspective of Bangladesh

A Review of Potential Renewable Energy Preference in Rural Area of Bangladesh

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