Poverty of Energy and Its Impact on Living Standards in Ethiopia

Elias Mandefro Getie

doi:10.1155/2020/7502583

Abstract

Energy is the backbone of the economic development of a country. Ethiopia has bulk energy resource potential, and the effect of energy poverty on well-being, physical health, agriculture automation, education system, industries, and ability to prosper is valuable. A large proportion of the population living in Ethiopia has no electricity access. Among more than 110 million people living in Ethiopia, 46% only use electric energy for day-to-day activities like food preparation and other tasks. In the rural area of the country, where 80% of the population lives, people have no sustainable energy supply. The rural electrification needs special mechanisms to enhance the living standards of the people by opening opportunities for electric power infrastructures. The sustainable development of the country will be achieved when citizens are enabled to live up to the standard of living as humans. This paper investigates energy poverty in Ethiopia and its impact on the living standards of the people, like human resource development, health of individuals, and automation of agriculture, for the purpose of upgrading individual’s lifestyle in the country.

Highlights

Is paper investigates energy poverty in Ethiopia and its impact on the living standards of the people, like human resource development, health of individuals, and automation of agriculture, for the purpose of upgrading individual’s lifestyle in the country
Most children living in the rural part of Ethiopia are unable to attend the courses delivered in the live TV programs, which has great impact on quality of education due to energy poverty. e development of a country is measured by the human resource development, but in Ethiopia most infrastructures ignore the major part of its population whose contribution for the country is invaluable
Funding policy should be established, and funding should be obtained from international organizations through submitting outstanding project proposals in the area of rural electrification using renewable energy resources. e resources available in the country and areas of installation should be clearly addressed to funding organizations through expert teams

Summary

Assessing Poverty of Energy and Its Impact

Poverty of energy is a multidimensional concept which includes life expectancy, quality of housing, literacy, calorific intake, and energy access from other factors. e lack of electricity access and dependence on traditional cooking fuels, i.e., wood, charcoal, and animal dung, can express poverty of energy in the society [12]. e complex causes of poverty of energy may be lack of installation income, identifying the available energy resources in the rural area of the country, awareness of the significance of using electric energy, and the high cost of energy to be paid for the utility. It focuses on materials and services given to people and the resources they have It includes different factors such as poverty rate, income, affordability and quality of housing, inflation rate, affordable access to healthcare, availability and quality of education, and life expectancy [14]. In the selected 10,368 householders from the rural area, whose data were collected from the central statistical agency, the major energy sources were as follows: 85% firewood, 22% charcoal and animal dung, and 14% gas for lighting. Health centers in rural Ethiopia are unable to use modern health instruments due to unavailability of electric energy sources, so most

Energy Poverty Implications for Living Standard

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