Abstract
Energy-saving behaviors are defined as the daily and habitual practices of households that focus on specific reductions in energy use. The main objective of this research was to estimate the impact of the energy-saving behavior of individuals on energy demand and to estimate the impact of factors affections the adoption of energy-saving techniques. The study is based on primary data which is collected through questionnaires. The data were collected from rural and urban households in four tehsils of district Sargodha, Pakistan. The Ordinary Least Square technique was to describe the relationship between electricity consumption and different explanatory variables such as gender, age, region, family members, dwelling area, income, energy consumption awareness, external influencing factors, and household saving behavior. Job status is negative and significant, qualification variable in this study is insignificant, marital status is negatively associated with energy consumption and significant, size of a household has a significant effect on the model. The monthly income of the household head has a positive and significant effect. Energy consumption awareness is significantly negative. External influencing factors are insignificant. Saving behavior in electronic appliances is significantly negative to energy consumption. Government should put efforts to aware the public about energy-saving measures through an awareness campaign using electronic media like mobile and email. Energy-saving appliances should be a sale at cheap prices. The household should have to change its habitual behavior.
Highlights
Pakistan is the most important country of south Asia which depended on natural gases, electricity, and wood to fulfill its energy requirements
The individual behavior is observed through direct interviews and questionnaires. While in the latter approach data is collected by any institution may be public or private and can be used in different researches. The former approach such as the questionnaire technique is used to collect data because proper data related to household energy consumption and their behavior towards consumption is unavailable from secondary sources
Structured questionnaires are distributed into three sets: first, the family features and geographic area of households; second, household energy user behavior which is divided into three subparts: energy consumption awareness, external influencing factors, and household saving behavior; third, household electricity consumption 2018-19
Summary
Pakistan is the most important country of south Asia which depended on natural gases, electricity, and wood to fulfill its energy requirements. Today energy is a very hot topic from all over the world especially in Pakistan energy is going to be shorter. Household energy consumption has become the first largest consumption sector in Pakistan. Pakistan is facing energy crises for the last two decades. Pakistan is one of the Asian countries that have natural resources but still facing energy crises. A day most important problem in Pakistan is the gap between the supply and demand of electricity. Pakistan is facing a 350MW (GOP, 2019) energy shortfall. Energy is ostensibly one of the most significant contributions for financial development to support modern and business exercises
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