drivers behind energy consumption by rural households in shanxi

山西省农户能源消费驱动因素

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Abstract
Biomass is widely used by households for cooking and heating in rural China. Along with rapid economic growth over the last three decades, increasing rural households tend to use less biomass and more commercial energy such as coal and electricity. In this paper, we analyzed the key drivers behind energy consumption and switching by rural households based on survey data of energy consumption by rural households in ten villages of Shanxi province in China. Our econometric results show that income growth can induce less use of biomass and more use of coal and modern fuels. However, no evidence shows that even wealthy households has abandoned biomass use in Shanxi, mainly due to the “free” access to land and agricultural resources in these villages. Previous wealth of a household represented by house value can lead to more time spent on biomass collection. Access to land resources has positive effects on biomass use and collection. Other key variables include education, household size, the number of elderly members, and coal price. We also find huge differences between villages, indicating the importance of access to agricultural resources and markets.
在中国农村，生物质能被广泛用于农户的烹饪和取暖。随着过去三十年经济的快速增长，越来越多的农村家庭倾向于减少生物质能的使用，转而增加煤炭和电力等商品能源的消费。本文基于中国山西省十个村庄的农户能源消费调查数据，分析了农户能源消费与转换背后的关键驱动因素。计量经济学分析结果表明，收入增长会减少生物质能的使用，并促进煤炭和现代燃料的消费。然而，并无证据表明山西即使是富裕家庭也完全放弃了生物质能的使用，这主要是由于农户在这些村庄可以“免费”获取土地和农业资源。以房屋价值所代表的家庭前期财富，会导致用于收集生物质能的时间增加。获取土地资源对生物质能的使用和收集具有正向影响。其他关键变量还包括受教育程度、家庭规模、老年人口数量以及煤炭价格。研究还发现各村庄之间存在显著差异，这表明获取农业资源以及进入市场的能力具有重要意义。
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Authors ;Mette Wik;Taoyuan Wei;Kristine Korneliussen;Rui Zhang;Solveig Glomsrød;Qinghua Shi
Journal Biology
Year 2015
DOI
10.3934/energy.2015.4.576
URL
http://www.aimspress.com/energy/article/458/fulltext.html
Keywords
biomass rural households central stations powerplants

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