Volume 20 No 20 (2022)
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Energy consumption of rural Households in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu
S. Velmurugan, Dr. A. Antony Joseph,
Abstract
Energy is the universal measure of all kinds of work, and its consumption has been increasing worldwide. It has become a basic requirement of today’s life. It is the backbone of present-day civilization. Thus, with an increase in the living standard of human beings, the energy consumption is also accelerated. The availability of energy is an important determinant of the quality of life in human settlements. An exploratory study was carried out on household level to find out the energy consumption pattern and consumer Energy is one of the fundamental factors in the functioning of any civilized society needed to improve better life style and socio-economic development of the country. More than half of the world’s population live in rural areas, who depend mostly on biomass for their energy supply, and have no access to modern form of energy. In many developing countries in Asia like India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Nepal and Bangladesh, the rural household energy consumption constitutes over 70% to the national energy use of Households are the foremost end user of biomass and commercial energy, which varies between rural and urban populations, between low and high-income groups within a country.
Keywords
Consumption Pattern, Consumer Energy, Economic Development, Rural areas.
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