Comparative Study of Residential Household Energy Consumption in Ekiti State-Nigeria

This work was carried out in collaboration between all authors. Author AOA conceived and designed the study, while authors OTO, OLR and JFE performed the field works and statistical analyses. Author OTO wrote the first draft of the manuscript as part of his M.Eng thesis under the supervision of author AOA. Author AOA reviewed the work for a journal article. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. ABSTRACT Aims: The paper compares the Results: The result revealed that, the densely populated area remains the larger consumer of energy content of 827,411.20 MJ (63%) against the sparsely populated areas with 486,267.60 MJ (37%), while on the basis of households’ income level; the energy consumed by the low income earners (790,719.30 MJ) is significantly higher than the high income earners (522,959.49 MJ). Conclusion: The study established that, fuel wood was the poor man’s energy source (6.5%) as well as charcoal (11.2%) majorly used in sparsely populated areas with high demand. Kerosene consumption (29.6%) was positively and significantly influenced by income and population in both locations while, LPG (44.9%) and electricity (7.8%) were used mainly in the densely populated areas. However, the results implied that, there was a positive link between income and choice of energy consumption by households that showed the low income earners consumed more energy than the high income earners due to their cooking frequency and unit energy purchase index.