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      The use of liquefied petroleum gas by South African low-income urban households: A case study

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          At the end of 2005 and in 2006, the Western Cape suffered extended blackouts. The cuts came as a shock and customers were loud in their criticism of Eskom and the City of Cape Town's failure to provide a reliable electricity supply. The utility Eskom's responses included the introduction of an aggressive Demand Side Management (DSM) programme with the goal of saving electricity and reducing the need to shed customers. In Khayelitsha, Cape Town, the DSM programme entailed an exchange and subsidy programme: households were encouraged to swop their two-plate electric stoves for Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) stoves. This intervention is the subject of this paper. The results of the study were analysed in terms of the socio-economic characteristics of the sample interviewed, multiple fuel use and transition trends in households in urban areas, changes in behaviour in electricity and LPG use, changing perceptions of LPG and the impact of the intervention. Previous studies in household energy use showed that people perceived LPG to be dangerous saying that it posed a greater danger to the household than paraffin since it might explode. Surprisingly, during the electricity power cuts in 2006, people in low-income communities, readily accepted LPG stoves in great numbers and a year later, up to 89% of the households surveyed, reported still using LPG for cooking.

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          Household energy poverty and paraffin consumption in South Africa: Boiling Point

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                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Journal
                jesa
                Journal of Energy in Southern Africa
                J. energy South. Afr.
                The Research Energy Centre of the University of Cape Town (Cape Town )
                2413-3051
                2009
                : 20
                : 4
                : 3-10
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Human Sciences Research Council
                [2 ] GVEP International
                Article
                S1021-447X2009000300001
                10.17159/2413-3051/2009/v20i4a3306
                49e4f3e6-1607-41f7-acd1-625a3ca206ec

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Self URI (journal page): http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=1021-447X&lng=en
                Categories
                Economics
                Energy & Fuels
                Environmental Sciences
                Nuclear Science & Technology
                Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

                Sociology,General economics,Nuclear chemistry,Batteries & Fuel cells,General environmental science
                electricity blackouts,energy transitions,demand-side management,Eskom,Khayelitsha,liquefied petroleum gas,low-income households,paraffin,South Africa,energy subsidy and exchange programme

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