Energy Poverty

Rationale/Causes

• Lack of Energy Infrastructure: Energy poverty results from the absence of modern energy infrastructure such as power plants, transmission lines, and underground pipes to distribute energy supplies like natural gas and petroleum to rural areas. They have relied extensively on conventional biomass, such burning wood, charcoal, crop residue, and wood pellets.
• Lack of Affordability: Families with lower incomes and levels of development are typically at the bottom of the energy food chain, utilising inexpensive, locally accessible fuel that is neither very efficient nor clean.
• Energy Inefficiency: One of the main causes of energy poverty is the disproportionately large waste of ....