Deleterious Emission Abatement through Structured Energy Use Pattern: A North Central Nigeria Perspective

Environmental and Climate Technologies 2016
Ademola Ajayi-Banji, Olayinka Omotosho, Anthony Amori, Damilola Alao, Imoisime Igbode, Olufemi Abimbola

Holistic view of household energy consumption based on greenhouse gas emissions in the North Central cities of Nigeria was examined in this study. Scenarios considered were based on income level of energy users (low and high) and energy metering system (i.e. pre-paid and post-paid energy billing systems). Strong direct nexus was observed between energy use and emissions pattern. Energy utilization by post-paid category had higher weekly average value of 35.09 and 41.70 kWh as against 23.18 and 33.38 kWh for low and high income pre-paid consumers respectively. Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from both classification followed similar trend. Data obtained and analysed in the study show that global warming and acidification potentials could be reduced by 33.94 and 19.95 % for low and high income category consumers when pre-paid meters are in place. Conclusively, energy system users with pre-paid metering system displayed reasonable level of management decisions that reduce energy wastage and consequently environmental negative impacts.

Atslēgas vārdi
Greenhouse gases; climate change; emission pattern; energy use; metering system
DOI
10.1515/rtuect-2016-0007
Hipersaite
https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/rtuect/17/1/article-p76.xml

Ajayi-Banji, A., Omotosho, O., Amori, A., Alao, D., Igbode, I., Abimbola, O. Deleterious Emission Abatement through Structured Energy Use Pattern: A North Central Nigeria Perspective. Environmental and Climate Technologies, 2016, Vol.17, 76.-90.lpp. ISSN 1691-5208. e-ISSN 2255-8837. Pieejams: doi:10.1515/rtuect-2016-0007

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)