Publication: The Role of Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Reducing Energy Poverty
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2011-12
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2014-05-13
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Increasing household use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is one of several pathways to meet the goal of universal access to clean cooking and heating solutions by 2030, as stated in the United Nations' Sustainable Energy for All Initiative. This study examined factors affecting household use of LPG, the state of LPG markets in developing countries, and measures to enable more households to shift away from solid fuels to LPG. The study is based on three separate but complementary analyses of factors affecting LPG use in developing countries: (1) econometric analysis of national household expenditure surveys in 10 developing countries that assessed the factors influencing LPG selection and consumption; (2) examination of LPG markets in 20 developing countries, including their regulatory frameworks, pricing and other policies, supply infrastructure, cylinder management, amount of information available to the public, and activities designed to promote household use of LPG; and (3) data from households in 110 developing countries about energy choices related to cooking, with information on energy choice by wealth quintile available in 63 of them.
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“Kojima, Masami. 2011. The Role of Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Reducing Energy Poverty. Extractive industries for development series;no. 25. © http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18293 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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