[Stoves] Energy supply and use in a rural West African village

[George Riegg Gambia]

Hi Mark,

I would appreciate if you could send me a copy of your research.

Cheers
George from the jungle
icecool at qanet.gm

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bryden, Kenneth [M E] 
  To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves 
  Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 4:06 PM
  Subject: [Stoves] Energy supply and use in a rural West African village


  All,

  Nathan Johnson and I would like to bring to your attention our recently published research on energy supply and use in a rural West African village. If you have free access to Energy (an Elsevier journal) the journal article can be downloaded from ENERGY  at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544212003088 .

  If you do not have free access to Energy, I would be happy to email you a pdf of the article (I cannot post the article due to copyright issues but I can provide it to you by email). The article is 590 KB in size.

  The abstract of the article is

  "Over three billion people live in the rural areas of low- and middle-income countries. Often rural households have many unmet energy needs, including cooking, lighting, heating, transportation, and telecommunication. Designing solutions to meet these needs requires an understanding of the human, natural, and engineered systems that drive village energy dynamics. This paper presents the results of a novel study of energy supply and use over a one year period in an isolated rural village of 770 people in Mali. Quantitative data and narrative descriptions from this study portray village energy supply and use. Annual village energy use is 6000 MJ per cap per yr. Domestic energy needs account for 93% of village energy use. Wood is the primary energy source and provides 94% of the village energy supply. Approximately 98% of the wood is used for domestic consumption. The uses of wood in the home are cooking (52.2%), heating water (22.2%), space heating (19.1%), and other activities (6.5%). This paper also reports variations in energy usage over the period of a year for a broad range of domestic, artisan, transport, and public energy uses." 


  Please let me know if you would like a copy of the article. Also let me know if you have any questions or comments on the article.


  Best regards
  Mark




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