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| Title: | Authors |
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| Authors: | G. Y. Obeng; H. -d. Evers; F. O. Akuffo; I. Braimah; A Principal; Component Analysis; A. Brew-hammond |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://vg06.met.vgwort.de/na/b5a9ec98e231e17be8dbd4293c9bbe?l=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zef.de%2Ffileadmin%2Fwebfiles%2Fdownloads%2Fzef_wp%2FWP25_Obeng-et-al.pdf. |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: | Assessment in Ghana; A Principal Component Analysis |
| Description: | The relationship between solar photovoltaic (PV) rural electrification and energy poverty was assessed using social, economic and environmental indicator-based questionnaires in 96 solar-electrified and 113 nonelectrified households in rural Ghana. The purpose was to assess energy-poverty status of households with and without solar PV systems, and to determine the factors that explain energy-poverty in off-grid rural households. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to construct energy-poverty index scores (EPIS). On the basis of the results of the EPIS, about 80 % of the non-electrified households were assessed as relatively energy poor compared with only 10 % of the solar-electrified households. Three significant indicators increased linearly with increasing EPIS and therefore explained the variation in EPIS. They are monthly savings on lighting (r 2 =0.214), number of children who can sit around lighting (r 2 =0.388) and amount paid to obtain lighting/electricity system (r 2 =0.261). On the contrary, EPIS decreased linearly with increasing monthly costs of kerosene, candles and dry-cell batteries. This indicates that increasing expenditure on kerosene, candles and dry-cell batteries is likely to affect household |
| Document Type: | text |
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| Language: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.170.1096 |
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| Accession Number: | edsbas.2654AFEF |
| Database: | BASE |