Sustainability of a Residential CFL Distribution Program : Evidence from Ethiopia

Energy-efficient products generally offer a win-win proposition, because they pay for themselves. End users can reduce their energy costs, and power utilities can avoid costly investments in extra generation capacity. Moreover, energy efficiency ca...

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Main Authors: Diaw, Issa, Elahi, Raihan, Iimi, Atsushi
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
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spelling okr-10986-250552021-04-23T14:04:28Z Sustainability of a Residential CFL Distribution Program : Evidence from Ethiopia Diaw, Issa Elahi, Raihan Iimi, Atsushi energy efficiency random-effects least-squares fixed-effects least-squares instrumental variable regression Energy-efficient products generally offer a win-win proposition, because they pay for themselves. End users can reduce their energy costs, and power utilities can avoid costly investments in extra generation capacity. Moreover, energy efficiency can contribute to mitigating global warming. This paper casts light on the sustainability of the residential use of compact fluorescent lamps after the free compact fluorescent lamp distribution program in Ethiopia. It is found that the direct program effect has been sustained for at least four years after the program. The effect of the distributed compact fluorescent lamps may taper off, if some of the program beneficiaries reinstall relatively cheap incandescent bulbs when the compact fluorescent lamps are burned out. However, many households replaced burned out compact fluorescent lamps with new compact fluorescent lamps. This effect is found to be statistically significant, particularly among relatively low-income households, whose demand is more price-elastic. All the indications are that program participants were generally convinced that compact fluorescent lamp bulbs are more cost-effective in the long run and the program effect is sustained over time. 2016-09-13T15:08:28Z 2016-09-13T15:08:28Z 2016-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26744576/sustainability-residential-cfl-distribution-program-evidence-ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25055 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7811 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Ethiopia
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topic energy efficiency
random-effects least-squares
fixed-effects least-squares
instrumental variable regression
spellingShingle energy efficiency
random-effects least-squares
fixed-effects least-squares
instrumental variable regression
Diaw, Issa
Elahi, Raihan
Iimi, Atsushi
Sustainability of a Residential CFL Distribution Program : Evidence from Ethiopia
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Ethiopia
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7811
description Energy-efficient products generally offer a win-win proposition, because they pay for themselves. End users can reduce their energy costs, and power utilities can avoid costly investments in extra generation capacity. Moreover, energy efficiency can contribute to mitigating global warming. This paper casts light on the sustainability of the residential use of compact fluorescent lamps after the free compact fluorescent lamp distribution program in Ethiopia. It is found that the direct program effect has been sustained for at least four years after the program. The effect of the distributed compact fluorescent lamps may taper off, if some of the program beneficiaries reinstall relatively cheap incandescent bulbs when the compact fluorescent lamps are burned out. However, many households replaced burned out compact fluorescent lamps with new compact fluorescent lamps. This effect is found to be statistically significant, particularly among relatively low-income households, whose demand is more price-elastic. All the indications are that program participants were generally convinced that compact fluorescent lamp bulbs are more cost-effective in the long run and the program effect is sustained over time.
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author Diaw, Issa
Elahi, Raihan
Iimi, Atsushi
author_facet Diaw, Issa
Elahi, Raihan
Iimi, Atsushi
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title Sustainability of a Residential CFL Distribution Program : Evidence from Ethiopia
title_short Sustainability of a Residential CFL Distribution Program : Evidence from Ethiopia
title_full Sustainability of a Residential CFL Distribution Program : Evidence from Ethiopia
title_fullStr Sustainability of a Residential CFL Distribution Program : Evidence from Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability of a Residential CFL Distribution Program : Evidence from Ethiopia
title_sort sustainability of a residential cfl distribution program : evidence from ethiopia
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2016
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26744576/sustainability-residential-cfl-distribution-program-evidence-ethiopia
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