Factors Influencing Household Adoption Of Solar Home System In Baso Liben District East Gojjam Zone Ethiopia

Solar energy, which is abundant and accessible with low price and minimumrnecological and environmental hazard, is a significant one to bring a desired human’srnlife improvement. Because of limitation of using this opportunity, the majority of f thernrural population of Ethiopia is still suffered with lack of electricity access. This studyrntried to investigate the major factors influencing households’ adoption of solar homernsystem in Baso Liben district east Gojjam zone, Ethiopia. Descriptive cross sectionalrnstudy design was employed with both qualitative and quantitative data collectionrnapproaches. 371 sample household respondents were selected randomly, of which 228rnand 143 households were from adopted and non adopted sides respectively from fourrnpurposively selected kebeles of the district based on infrastructural accessibility, highrnadoption intensity, time and other physical factors. The quantitative data wererncollected through structured questionnaires whereas the qualitative data wererncollected through interview with key informants in addition to questionnaires. Binaryrnlogistic regression model was employed to estimate the effects of determinants onrnhouseholds’ decision to adopt solar. The result indicated that income found to have arnpositive effect on solar home system adoption at a statistically significant levelrn(P

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