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Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Use and Adoption of Family-Sized Bio-digesters as Renewable Energy Sources in Ngoma District, Rwanda

Danson Musinguzi
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Emmanuel Kayinamura
,
Anne Tumushabe
,
Daniel Omuna
,
Emmaniel Innocent Eniru
,
Oluwole Olusegun Akiyode
,
Hadijjah Katongole
,
Edson Mwebesa
,
Twaha Ali Basamba
,
Dominic Byarugaba
Version 1 : Received: 25 May 2018 / Approved: 25 May 2018 / Online: 25 May 2018 (10:55:58 CEST)

How to cite: Musinguzi, D.; Kayinamura, E.; Tumushabe, A.; Omuna, D.; Eniru, E.I.; Akiyode, O.O.; Katongole, H.; Mwebesa, E.; Basamba, T.A.; Byarugaba, D. Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Use and Adoption of Family-Sized Bio-digesters as Renewable Energy Sources in Ngoma District, Rwanda. Preprints 2018, 2018050361. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201805.0361.v1 Musinguzi, D.; Kayinamura, E.; Tumushabe, A.; Omuna, D.; Eniru, E.I.; Akiyode, O.O.; Katongole, H.; Mwebesa, E.; Basamba, T.A.; Byarugaba, D. Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Use and Adoption of Family-Sized Bio-digesters as Renewable Energy Sources in Ngoma District, Rwanda. Preprints 2018, 2018050361. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201805.0361.v1

Abstract

1) Background: The environmental, financial and social questions in Africa remain unanswered up-to-date, with the rapid increase in human population and the demand for fuel energy, trigger the need to generate data on the socio-economic factors influencing the knowledge of use and adoption of family-sized bio-digesters. The increasing prices of fossil fuels and taxes on energy sources require finding the alternative, clean and economical sources of energy for households in developing countries. Moreover, in Africa, the consumption of firewood and charcoal continues to increase, with wood fuel consumption predicted to increase by 2030 to over 140%. The study objectives were 1) to determine the socio-economic characteristics of the people in Ngoma district, 2) to assess socio-economic factors influencing people to use and adopt family-sized bio-digesters. 2) Methods: Quantitative data collected with semi-structured questionnaires and interviews were analyzed using descriptive statistics. 3) Results: The results show that many households had not realized the potential benefits of biogas use and adoption in Rwanda. The study further found that a number of factors such as household income levels, socio-economic, technological, and institutional influence the household use and adoption of biogas energy. 4) Conclusions: At the end, the study suggests the need for all players such as Government, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) and local communities to work together to provide incentives and favorable environment that can attract individual households to invest in biogas energy production and utilization.

Keywords

bio-digesters; household income levels; renewable energy; socio-economic

Subject

Engineering, Energy and Fuel Technology

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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