Estimation of households' and businesses' willingness to pay for improved reliability of electricity supply in Nepal

Niroomand, Naghmeh; Jenkins, Glenn P.

doi:10.1016/j.esd.2020.02.006

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dc.contributor.author	Niroomand, Naghmeh	-
dc.contributor.author	Jenkins, Glenn P.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-08T10:13:14Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-09-08T10:13:14Z	-
dc.date.issued	2020	-
dc.identifier.issn	0973-0826	de_CH
dc.identifier.issn	2352-4669	de_CH
dc.identifier.uri	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/25600	-
dc.description.abstract	For the decade prior to 2016 Nepal suffered fromtheworst electricity shortages in South Asia. During this period load shedding occurred for up to 18 h a day when hydropower generation is low. This research uses parametric and non-parametric models to estimate households' and businesses' willingness to pay (WTP) for improved reliability of electricity services in Nepal. A contingent valuation (CV) survey was completed by 1800 households and 590 businesses. The parametric models are estimated using Logit regressions. The non- parametric estimations include the median, Turnbull and the Kriström mean estimations that are estimated directly from the survey results. In all estimations of theWTP the households and businesses arewilling to pay more to get froma 50% reduction to a complete elimination of outages than they arewilling to pay to get fromtheir current situation to a 50% reduction in outages. This difference in the estimates of theWTP for these two options is even more important in the case of businesses than for households. In the cost- benefit analysis that uses these results the annual benefit in 2017 from improving the reliability of the electricity service would be approximately US$ 324 million with a present value over 20 years of between US$ 2 and 3.8 billion.	de_CH
dc.language.iso	en	de_CH
dc.publisher	Elsevier	de_CH
dc.relation.ispartof	Energy for Sustainable Development	de_CH
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	de_CH
dc.subject	Contingent valuation	de_CH
dc.subject	Electricity	de_CH
dc.subject	Logit model	de_CH
dc.subject	Non-parametric method	de_CH
dc.subject	Willingness to pay	de_CH
dc.subject.ddc	333.79: Energie	de_CH
dc.title	Estimation of households' and businesses' willingness to pay for improved reliability of electricity supply in Nepal	de_CH
dc.type	Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift	de_CH
dcterms.type	Text	de_CH
zhaw.departement	School of Management and Law	de_CH
zhaw.organisationalunit	Zentrum für Arbeitsmärkte, Digitalisierung und Regionalökonomie (CLDR)	de_CH
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.esd.2020.02.006	de_CH
dc.identifier.doi	10.21256/zhaw-25600	-
zhaw.funding.eu	No	de_CH
zhaw.originated.zhaw	No	de_CH
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zhaw.pages.start	201	de_CH
zhaw.publication.status	acceptedVersion	de_CH
zhaw.volume	55	de_CH
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Niroomand, N., & Jenkins, G. P. (2020). Estimation of households’ and businesses’ willingness to pay for improved reliability of electricity supply in Nepal. Energy for Sustainable Development, 55, 201–209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2020.02.006

Niroomand, N. and Jenkins, G.P. (2020) ‘Estimation of households” and businesses” willingness to pay for improved reliability of electricity supply in Nepal’, Energy for Sustainable Development, 55, pp. 201–209. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2020.02.006.

N. Niroomand and G. P. Jenkins, “Estimation of households’ and businesses’ willingness to pay for improved reliability of electricity supply in Nepal,” Energy for Sustainable Development, vol. 55, pp. 201–209, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.esd.2020.02.006.

NIROOMAND, Naghmeh und Glenn P. JENKINS, 2020. Estimation of households‘ and businesses‘ willingness to pay for improved reliability of electricity supply in Nepal. Energy for Sustainable Development. 2020. Bd. 55, S. 201–209. DOI 10.1016/j.esd.2020.02.006

Niroomand, Naghmeh, and Glenn P. Jenkins. 2020. “Estimation of Households’ and Businesses’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Reliability of Electricity Supply in Nepal.” Energy for Sustainable Development 55: 201–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2020.02.006.

Niroomand, Naghmeh, and Glenn P. Jenkins. “Estimation of Households’ and Businesses’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Reliability of Electricity Supply in Nepal.” Energy for Sustainable Development, vol. 55, 2020, pp. 201–9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2020.02.006.