Abstract
If Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seven of affordable and clean energy will be achieved, access to clean energy such as solar energy needs dedicated attention. The study assessed respondents' perception of solar energy and identified factors influencing their preference level in urban areas of Southwest Nigeria. Data were obtained from four hundred and eighty (480) solar energy users and four hundred and eighty (480) non- solar energy users leading to total of nine hundred and sixty (960) respondents' through a multi-stage sampling technique. Descriptive statistics, 5-likert scale type and tobit regression model were used to analyze the data collected. The respondents agreed that solar energy is the most appropriate source of energy compared to fossil fuel with mean score of 3.83. Price stability (0.83) attribute of solar energy is one of the reasons that makes it preferred by the respondent. A unit increase in household income will lead to 0.0879592 preference for solar energy in the study area. The study recommends that government at all levels should sensitize the households on the usage of solar energy in Nigeria to achieve the goal seven of SDGs.Keywords: Clean Energy, Solar Energy, Perception, Tobit Regression Model, NigeriaJEL Classifications: Q1, Q2, Q3 P28DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.10001
Highlights
A large proportion of the world’s population mostly the developing countries like Nigeria generate the energy they use from solid fuels and most of these fuels are known to pose a real threat to human health (Perera, 2018)
Sex distribution of the respondents shows that 72.9% (350) of the solar energy users were male and 27.1% (130) of them were female, while 65.0% (312) of the non-users were male and 35.0% (168) of them were female
Drawing inference from the class boundaries of means as shown in Table 2, the respondents agreed that solar energy is the most appropriate source of energy when compared to fossil fuel with mean score of 3.83
Summary
A large proportion of the world’s population mostly the developing countries like Nigeria generate the energy they use from solid fuels and most of these fuels are known to pose a real threat to human health (Perera, 2018). In the developing countries, approximately three billion people are using polluting crude oil, natural gas, solid fuels such as biomass, charcoal and animal waste for their daily purposes (Langbein et al, 2017). These fuels are combusted in poorly designed and inefficiently resulting in emission of noxious gases and products of incomplete combustion especially in the urban areas (Makonese et al, 2017), which are the major human source of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) and spurs climate change by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (Perera, 2018). If the current trajectory continues, 2.3 billion of the global population would remain without access to clean energy in 2030 (Perera, 2018)
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