Abstract
The overdependence on using traditional fuels for lighting purposes is closely associated to indoor air pollution, environmental humiliation and high opportunity cost for women and children and consequently affect household well-being, the social economic welfare of deprived population in developing nations to be improved there should consider the adoption and usage of modern lighting services as very important. This paper identifies the determining control factors that influence the fuel energy choice for lighting purposes in Rwanda by applying the Multinomial logit regression to the national representative survey at household level data. The study revealed that the households with higher income are adopting to use the cleaner and modern fuel energy source, confirming the hypothesis for energy ladder. Not only household income exerting impact on the fuel energy choice for lighting, the other fuel choices significant determining variables in Rwanda are: number of the rooms occupied by household, type of dwelling for household, age of the household head, whether the household head has formal education level, the household size, type of the habitant for the household and the location of the household. This paper suggests deployment and utilization of solar potentiality for supplying the cleaner and modern fuel energy for lighting purposes in the remote area of Rwanda.
Highlights
The socio-economic welfare of underprivileged population in developing country to be improved there should be taking consideration of modern lighting services as very crucial
From the table 1 above reports for the sample used in this study, only household living in the urban area are averaged at 16 percent as the household location was taken as dummy and urban location was taken as 1 and the age of household was averaged at 45 years while household head with formal basic education were averaged at 39 percent as formal education was considered as dummy and if the household with formal education was taken as 1
Clean and modern lighting services are essential for improving the socio-economic wellbeing of deprived people in developing countries, so it is important to have an advanced understanding of driving control factors which influence household’s lighting fuel energy choice trough advancement of the fuel energy transition
Summary
The socio-economic welfare of underprivileged population in developing country to be improved there should be taking consideration of modern lighting services as very crucial. The forecasted data shows that the population without access to clean and modern fuels and rely on the traditional biomass the number is likely to rise to 2.7 billion of the vulnerable population by 2030 resulting to depleting the forest and degradation of the environment that might be unavoidable if there is no timely and well formulated policy measures [11] Due to this critical issue, the advancement in clean and modern fuel energy technologies is crucial for easy transition of fuel energy in order to improve the accessibility and adaptation to use the clean, modern energy services to lessen the energy dispossession [19]. The prosperous uptake of clean and modern fuel energy technologies is largely associated to the consumer preferences and demand typically from the household level
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
