RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY USE AND THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY OPTIONS IN PAKISTAN

Rising demands for electricity, stresses on generating systems, and co ncerns over environmental quality have led to increased interest in th e potential benefits of energy efficiency options in a number of devel oping countries. In an effort to analyze electricity consumption patte rns and the potential for conservation, the World Bank has managed the Pakistan Household Energy Strategy Study. One component of that study , the first of its kind in a developing country, has involved the coll ection of household metering and survey data to support the estimation of hourly demand regression equations and the development of energy e fficiency simulation software, This manuscript summarizes the methods and results. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.