World Future Energy Summit Features for May 2017

World Future Energy Summit Features Archive

Research Focus: how education, wealth, and other factors determine whether households in a struggling country use electricity for light and cooking Research Focus: how education, wealth, and other factors determine whether households in a struggling country use electricity for light and cooking

The study, using statistical evidence from Bhutan, and aimed at Policymakers, International Development Experts and people from developing countries, expands on the concept of an energy ladder - a hypothesis developed by Leach in 1992 - used to describe the way in which households will move to more sophisticated fuels as their economic status (incomes) improves...