Technical and economic studies on lighting systems: A case for LED lanterns and CFLs in rural Ghana

C.K.K. Sekyere, F.K. Forson and F.O. Akuffo

Renewable Energy, 2012, vol. 46, issue C, 282-288

Abstract: Studies have shown that 50.1% of Ghana’s 22,900,927 population use kerosene as fuel source for lighting. Statistics further established that 75.6% of Ghana’s rural population and 19.9% of the urban population use kerosene as fuel for lighting. This situation has brought about diverse problems of poor indoor air quality. For instance, a survey conducted among 113 non-electrified households in 16 rural communities, located in six regions in Ghana that use kerosene lanterns established that 69% of the households observed soot particulates in a household member’s nostril in the morning.

Keywords: Lighting systems; Illuminance; Solar powered; LED; CFLs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.02.019

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