Using contingent behavior analysis to measure benefits from rural electrification in developing countries: an example from Rwanda

Manning, Dale T.; Means, Peter; Zimmerle, Daniel; Galvin, Kathleen A.; Loomis, John B.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2015.06.032

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“…Understanding the drivers of the WTP for improved domestic and irrigation water can ensure that innovations reach the households and regions where it generates the most value. It is therefore key for the economic and social sustainability of water infrastructure (Manning et al 2015). In addition, it may help to predict the use of water resources and may therefore orientate strategies to ensure the environmental sustainability of these resources.…”

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“…It also allows the examination of the relationship between microgrid electricity use and the mWTP for improved water infrastructure. Learning about the demand for new electricity uses, such as motorized water pumping, is key to sustainably improving energy access and meeting sustainable development goal number 7, related to affordable and clean energy (Manning et al 2015;UN 2018).…”

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Determinants of the marginal willingness to pay for improved domestic water and irrigation in partially electrified Rwandan villages

Meunier

Manning

Quéval

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International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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Access to water for domestic and irrigation uses remains limited across Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in rural areas. While the technical feasibility of implementing innovative technologies to improve water supply has been often evaluated, less is known about the drivers that motivate users to pay for obtaining the inherent benefits of improved water supply. In this article, the determinants of the marginal willingness to pay (mWTP) for improved domestic and irrigation water are investigated. For this purpose, a contingent valuation study is performed in rural Rwanda. This study uses survey data from 316 households situated in 8 villages, in which ~20 % of the households receive electricity thanks to microgrids powered by solar energy. It is found that the mWTP for improved domestic water supply is influenced by the proportion of children in the household, business ownership, and satisfaction with water quantity and quality. The mWTP for irrigation is determined by respondent education, business ownership and crop area planted. This paper contributes to the literature by allowing a comparison of the determinants of the mWTP for improved domestic water supply to the determinants of the mWTP for irrigation. Another contribution is to examine the mWTP for improved water infrastructure in partially electrified villages. Identifying areas with high marginal benefits from water can guide infrastructure investment and electrification efforts while improving well-being and increasing revenues in rural areas.

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Determinants of the marginal willingness to pay for improved domestic water and irrigation in partially electrified Rwandan villages

Meunier

Manning

Quéval

et al. 2019

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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“…Rural electrification is highly interdisciplinary and most of the research has been technology focused [27,30]. One of the key technological and economic challenges in rural electrification are matching generation capacities with electric load [31]. As such it has been widely covered in the rural electrification literature (see [19,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40] for a few examples).…”

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Rural electrification and capacity expansion with an integrated modeling approach

2018

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In developing countries, mini-grids are seen as an important option to improve electrification rates in rural areas. In order to be successful, mini-grids face issues of operation and sizing of generation capacities. Current studies on the optimal sizing of mini-grids do not include capacity expansion feedbacks regarding the operator's or investor's long-term economic performance on growth in electricity usage, e.g. gap between demand and supply impacting the operator's income. Using a System Dynamics model, this paper compares the impact from two capacity expansion strategies on rural mini-grid operator's long-term economic performance. The two capacity expansion strategies are: a strategy with minimized costs and a strategy where only diesel power is allowed. Research shows that a costminimized capacity expansion strategy might not be the most beneficial solution for the operator's long term financial performance. Specifically, the high investment costs prohibit the implementation of the cost-minimized expansion strategy. In addition, the diesel-only expansion strategy suffers from high operational costs, which creates long-term challenges as the share of diesel increase. Therefore, the timeline of the investments and when to implement different strategies is important, creating a benefit for a System Dynamics approach.

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“…With the goal of measuring the potential benefits of rural electrification in Rwanda, a survey was carried out in two villages during the summer of 2014 (see Manning et al , 2015, for details) 2 . Before the survey was implemented, it was tested with rural households in other villages, as well as with community leaders in the selected villages 3 .…”

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Consumer preferences for fixed versus variable quantities of electricity: joint estimation of contingent quantity and valuation methods

Manning

Loomis

2016

Envir. Dev. Econ.

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The structure of stated preference questions to value consumption from public infrastructure can vary depending on the conditions of consumption facing the household. Specifically, a good could be offered as a quasi-public or quasi-private good. This paper demonstrates how consumption from two alternative electricity allocation options can be valued using two types of stated preference questions. Since surveyed households were asked two types of questions, the authors develop a joint model of a contingent valuation question and a contingent quantity behavior response that allows for correlation in error terms across models. In their application to two villages in Rwanda, the authors find higher WTP for electricity consumed as a quasi-private good rather than a quasi-public good, with four hours of electricity per day, only in the evening. They also find correlation in the error terms across the two models, suggesting that their joint estimator is more efficient than estimating each model individually.

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Using contingent behavior analysis to measure benefits from rural electrification in developing countries: an example from Rwanda

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

Determinants of the marginal willingness to pay for improved domestic water and irrigation in partially electrified Rwandan villages

Determinants of the marginal willingness to pay for improved domestic water and irrigation in partially electrified Rwandan villages

Rural electrification and capacity expansion with an integrated modeling approach

Consumer preferences for fixed versus variable quantities of electricity: joint estimation of contingent quantity and valuation methods

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