Abstract
The heavy dependence on traditional biomass and fossil fuel as well as their inefficient utilization for household’s energy is a concern to health and environment in the study area and elsewhere. It is believed that these problems can be prevented by adopting clean, reliable and affordable energy sources and technologies.
This study investigates the current extent of use and the factors that determine household’s decision on adoption of clean technology ethanol stoves in Addis Ababa city administration with the particular emphasis in Gulele sub-city. A quantitative and qualitative survey was conducted using a structured and semi-structured questionnaire with which data was collected and analyzed from a sample of 276 randomly selected households and 9 purposively selected key informants among the residents of the sub-city, respectively. Data from questionnaires were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression while the data from the focus group discussions (FGD) were analyzed through data coding. The result reveals that there is heavy dependence on traditional biomass for backing among both non-adopters (85%) and adopters (62%) households. Besides, kerosene and ethanol were found to be the primary source of cooking for the households of non-adopters (55%) and adopters (100%) respectively. The econometric result shows that household’s income was found to be significantly and positively correlated with ethanol stove adoption. The age, sex, family size and price of ethanol stove were found to be significantly and negatively correlated with ethanol stove adoption decision. Education was not found to be statistically significant to determine household’s ethanol stove adoption decision. On the other hand, the features of the technology such as time and fuel saving (65%), cleanness and free of emission (68%) and safety (76%) of the stove were found to be positively correlated with the adoption of the stove. However, ethanol scarcity, inadequate public awareness (86%) and limited distribution infrastructure were found to be the barrier to ethanol stove adoption. To fill these knowledge gap different strategies should be planned to promote sustainably and create awareness among the community about the benefits of the stoves. Furthermore, establishing processing, modernize the distribution and the development of the ethanol should be the key issue for the government and the stakeholders.
Keywords: Adoption, Household, Ethanol stove, clean cookstove
