Factors Inuencing Household Adoption of Solar Home System in Baso Liben District, Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia Asmare Mossie Zeru (
[email protected] ) Federal technical and vocational education and training agency https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0883- 7097 Dawit Diriba Guta Center for environment and development studies, college of development studies, Addis Ababa university Original article Keywords: Solar home system, Adoption, Factors, Household, Rural Posted Date: February 9th, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-60920/v2 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License Factors Influencing Household Adoption of Solar Home System in Baso Liben District, Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia Asmare Mossie Zerua, Dawit Diriba Guta b a Federal Technical and Vocational Education and Training Agency, email:
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[email protected] 1 Abstract Background: Although solar energy is abundant, accessible, affordable, and ecologically and environmentally friendly, in rural Ethiopia the majority of households are still using pollutant kerosene for lighting. It is important to understand the demand and supply-side factors affecting adoption of technology. For this purpose, this study investigates the factors influencing household adoption of the solar home system (SHS). Methodology: The data used for the econometric model was collected from randomly selected 228 solar home system adopter and 143 non- adopter households in Baso Liben district, Amhara regional state of Ethiopia. The logistic regression model was applied to examine the factors affecting households’ willingness to adopt SHS.