TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Kenneth
AU  - Miguel,Edward
AU  - Wolfram,Catherine
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Appliance Ownership and Aspirations among Electric Grid and Home Solar Households in Rural Kenya
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - January 2016; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - In Sub-Saharan Africa, there are active debates about whether increases in energy access should be driven by investments in electric grid infrastructure or small-scale "home solar" systems (e.g., solar lanterns and solar home systems). We summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of appliance ownership and aspirations. Our data suggest that home solar is not a substitute for grid power. Furthermore, the environmental advantages of home solar are likely to be relatively small in countries like Kenya, where grid power is primarily derived from non-fossil fuel sources
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w21949
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w21949
ER  -