A systematic review of household energy transition in low and middle income countries

Electric cookstove adoption and energy attitudes in rural Namibia: The role of youth and sustainability education in advancing household energy

“…While the index was developed for e cient cookstoves, its exibility was leveraged to calculate adoption indices for each stove used in a residence, including traditional cookstoves. At present, little attention is given to the factors that encourage a household to suspend or reduce solid fuel use 44 and there is no recommended metric for understanding a traditional cookstove's importance in relation to other devices in the household. As such, all cookstoves in the household were treated equally, and index scores were viewed as an indication of the household's commitment to each device.…”

Determinants of non-primary, primary, and exclusive use of liquefied petroleum gas vary significantly in a nationally representative survey in Ghana

“…First, the literature includes contradictory findings on whether a given factor is a significant driver or barrier to the transition away from solid fuels. Recent systematic reviews-see (Guta et al, 2022;Lewis & Pattanayak, 2012;Puzzolo et al, 2020;Vigolo et al, 2018) -have identified a diverse set of factors or determinants which includes technological characteristics, demographic, socioeconomic conditions, the market economy, institutional capacity, supply chain infrastructure, etc. However, the comparative influence of factors and even the direction of influence (driver or barrier) is unclear.…”

“…However, the comparative influence of factors and even the direction of influence (driver or barrier) is unclear. For example, there is mixed evidence on how the size of the household (small or large) or the gender of the household head (male or female) impact clean cooking choice (Guta et al, 2022;Lewis & Pattanayak, 2012). While theorizing the impact of an independent variable on the dependent variable (of clean fuel adoption), if the role of income is negative, positive (statistically insignificant), or, positive (statistically significant) across studies (Lewis & Pattanayak, 2012), what generalized conclusion can be drawn to prescribe policy action?…”

“…Some studies have used terms like "primary adoption" (Kypridemos et al, 2020), or "sustained adoption" (Kumar & Mehta, 2016) to imply the energy dimension or time dimension of fuel choice. As a result, tallying of individual study results, such as Figure 2 in (Lewis & Pattanayak, 2012) or, Figure 5 in (Guta et al, 2022) while useful as a snapshot can be misleading without careful attention. Improved understanding of how the magnitude and direction of influence of the determinants are driven by which specific aspect of transition (e.g., uptake vs. sustained use) is being studied can be useful from a policy perspective.…”

“…Limited progress in the clean cooking energy transition is not just a Ghanaspecific challenge. Despite several multi-institution, multi-country efforts over the last two decades, progress in the clean cooking energy transition in developing economies, particularly in rural communities, has been modest (ESMAP, 2020;Guta et al, 2022;Quinn et al, 2018). Improvements in the local availability of LPG on-demand as well as the initial uptake of LPG have been more widespread.…”