Access to Electricity in Afghanistan : A Review of Recent Data and Recommendations to Improve Utility Operations
It is generally believed that Afghanistan has one of the lowest levels of access to electricity in the world; the figure of 6 percent access on the national level is often cited. While it is certainly true that overall access to electricity is low...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/556611468194994923/Access-to-electricity-in-Afghanistan-a-review-of-recent-data-and-recommendations-to-improve-utility-operations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37381 |
| Summary: | It is generally believed that
Afghanistan has one of the lowest levels of access to
electricity in the world; the figure of 6 percent access on
the national level is often cited. While it is certainly
true that overall access to electricity is low in this
overwhelmingly rural and poor country, a review of recent
household survey data and updated national utility data
suggests that the access to electricity is somewhat higher
than has generally been supposed, particularly in urban
Afghanistan. This note presents the new data and examines
the implications of higher levels of access for policy
makers and the managers of the power system in Afghanistan,
particularly in Kabul. Recommendations to improve the
quality of the utility's knowledge of the power system
in Kabul follow the analysis of the survey data. The
analysis of the Kabul Household Energy and Water Survey
(KHEWS) data also considered the possibility that so-called
'minor consumers' might account for the
discrepancy between the estimates of access to electricity
more accurately reflect the actual level of access to
electricity in Afghanistan and particularly in Kabul. At the
very least, it would seem reasonable to conclude that the
estimate based on Breshna data represents the minimum
boundary of the estimate of access to electricity, while the
survey data represent the maximum boundary, with the actual
level somewhere in between and likely closer to the survey results. |
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