Wakjira Toleshi
Salale University, Department of Economics, PO Box 245, Fiche Salale, Ethiopia.
Heliyon. 2022 Aug 18;8(8):e10283. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10283. eCollection 2022 Aug.
The reliable and renewable Electricity services have a substantial contribution to the environment, economy, and social cohesion. Nevertheless, in developing countries like Ethiopia, electricity services are irregular and unreliable. The study aims to analyze households' preference for reliable electricity services using primary data collected from 210 sample households in Hosanna and Durame towns of Southern Ethiopia. The households' preferences were analyzed using the choice experiment valuation technique. The study used both Conditional and Mixed Logit models to estimate the mean and marginal Willingness to Pay (WTP) for the attributes. The result suggests that households are willing to pay 230.84 ETB ($8.34), 229.34 ETB ($8.2), 2230 ETB ($8.3), and 230 ETB ($8.26) per month for improvement scenario one, two, three and four respectively in addition to the current monthly charge. Hence, the government should heavily invest in improving electricity transmission and distribution capacity besides upscaling the generation capacity.
可靠且可再生的电力服务对环境、经济和社会凝聚力有重大贡献。然而，在像埃塞俄比亚这样的发展中国家，电力服务不稳定且不可靠。该研究旨在利用从埃塞俄比亚南部霍桑纳和杜拉梅镇的210个样本家庭收集的原始数据，分析家庭对可靠电力服务的偏好。使用选择实验估值技术分析了家庭的偏好。该研究使用条件逻辑模型和混合逻辑模型来估计属性的平均和边际支付意愿（WTP）。结果表明，除了当前每月的费用外，家庭分别愿意为改善方案一、二、三、四每月支付230.84埃塞俄比亚比尔（8.34美元）、229.34埃塞俄比亚比尔（8.2美元）、2230埃塞俄比亚比尔（8.3美元）和230埃塞俄比亚比尔（8.26美元）。因此，政府除了扩大发电能力外，还应大力投资改善输电和配电能力。
