- Title
- Household fuelwood use in small electrified towns of the Makana District, Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M, Gambiza, James, Jones, R
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182362
- Identifier
- vital:43823
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.17159/2413-3051/2007/v18i4a3394"
- Description
- Access to secure energy supplies is a key foundation for sustainable development. Consequently local planning and development initiatives must be based on a sound knowledge of the energy use patterns and preferences of local users. This paper reports on such for three small urban settlements in the Eastern Cape Province, with a particular focus on fuelwood use. Despite widespread electrification over a decade ago, and perceptions that the ease of fuelwood collection was declining, most households continued to use fuelwood for cooking and space heating, whereas electricity was favoured for lighting. The most common reason for this was because fuelwood was cheap (or free) compared to electricity. Annual demand was approximately 1 450 kg per household per year. Households that collected their own supplies of fuelwood were significantly poorer than those that either bought their stocks, or those that did not use fuelwood at all. Indigenous species were favoured over exotic species, although fuelwood vendors traded mostly in exotic species, particularly Eucalyptus and wattle. The greater reliance of poorer and unelectrified households on fuelwood requires that local authorities consider this in energy planning, otherwise the poor will be neglected in policies such as the Free Basic Electricity.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (7 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- South African Journal of Science
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, Shackleton, C.M., Gambiza, J. and Jones, R., 2007. Household fuelwood use in small electrified towns of the Makana District, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 18(4), pp.4-10, Journal of Energy in Southern Africa volume 18 number 4 p. 4 2006 2413-3051
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- Rights
- Closed Access
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