Abstract
Poor quality and unavailability of baseline data on energy consumption seriously affects energy planning and policy related work and environmental protection. A large number of households faced limited, inefficient, and expensive energy options to meet their domestic activities.
The main aim of this study is to investigate the current patterns of household energy consumption and expenditure in Boditi town in terms of major types of available energy sources for domestic use, to identify the determinants of energy consumption and expenditure among households and also to identify the major sources of energy available for household domestic use. Mixed methological approach were used in this study. Multi-stage sampling technique were applied to select the sample households. In the first stage, sample kebeles were selected from the total kebeles randomly by using lottery method. In the second stage, sample households were selected by using sample determination formula of (Yemane, 1967) lastly, sample sizes are given for each kebele by using probability proportion to size (PPS) method. For this study, data were obtained from the randomly selected 358 sampling households. The method used to collect data was a questionnaire. The method used to analyses the data was a descriptive statistics and multivariate regression analysis. The outcome of this study shows that households used different fuel types for different domestic activities. The energy sources used by households include biomass fuels (fuelwood, charcoal and sawdust) and modern fuels (electricity, kerosene, dry cell battery and candle). The findings of this study show that household income and household size are the main variables which determine the amount of energy expenditure and consumption per households. Household size and income are statistically significant parameters with household energy expenditure, both biomass and conventional energy consumption and also gross household energy consumption. The amount of both gross and useful domestic energy consumed increases with the increase in household income.
Keywords: biomass energy, conventional fuels energy expenditure, energy consumption, Household,
