Household fuel mixes in peri-urban and rural Ecuador: Explaining the context of LPG, patterns of continued firewood use, and the challenges of induction cooking

Carlos F. Gould, Samuel B. Schlesinger, Emilio Molina, M. Lorena Bejarano, Alfredo Valarezo and Darby W. Jack

Energy Policy, 2020, vol. 136, issue C

Abstract: Nationwide transitions from cooking with solid fuels to clean fuels promise substantial health, climate, and environmental benefits. For decades, Ecuador has invested heavily in consumption subsidies for liquified petroleum gas (LPG), a leading clean fuel. With the goal of understanding household energy use in a context where LPG is ubiquitous and cheap, we administered 808 household surveys in peri-urban and rural communities in coastal and Andean Ecuadorian provinces. We assess cooking fuel ownership and use patterns after long-term LPG access and the reach of induction stoves promoted through a recent government program.

Keywords: Energy policy; Fuel subsidy; Clean cooking; Latin America; Biomass cooking; Fuel transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111053

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