Interfuel substitution and changes in the way households use energy : the case of cooking and lighting behavior in urban Java

Fitzgerald, Kevin B.
Barnes, Douglas
McGranahan, Gordon

1990

F5531
665.538

This paper develops a statistical procedure to analyze interfuel substitution based on the actual behavior of urban households. Applied to data from a recent survey of energy consumption in urban households on Java, the amount of energy that is actually consumed by comparable households using different fuels can be estimated. The analysis of fuel use by urban households on Java provides a sound basis for projecting the substitution potential of kerosene for wood and LPG for kerosene in the cooking end-use...

KEROSENE; GLP; CONSUMO DE ENERGIA; AREAS URBANAS; JAVA;