Information Communication Technology Access And Use Towards Energy Consumption In Selected Sub Saharan Africa

• Published in: IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2021-03, Vol.665 (1), p.12039
• Main Authors: Ihayere, O., Alege, P., Obindah, G., Ejemeyovwi, J., Daramola, P.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Energy consumption; Integration; Least squares method; Portable computers; Poverty; Renewable energy; Residential energy; Sustainability; Sustainable consumption; Technology
• ISSN: 1755-1307; 1755-1315
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/665/1/012039

Major new opportunities abound from energy integration among regions in Africa with the sole aim of reducing transaction costs and with the role of ICT, it would take energy from where it is easily affordable to places where it is needed. This study takes on a new perspective, that is, employing household energy consumption, to ascertain the use of ICT by household in accessing energy. The study explores the degree to which energy integration among the five regional power pools in Africa can achieve ending energy poverty among regional adherents. The study utilizes the Pooled Ordinary Least Squares technique on data from the SSA economies over the period 2000-2019. The study confirms the viability of the ICT adoption – Energy Consumption hypothesis statistically at five (5) percent level of significance. More specifically, the findings show that a one-unit increase in household mobile technology will lead to an average of 1.4 unit increase in energy consumption. The findings indicate that the adoption of such mobile technology impacts energy consumption, which suggests the need for the acceleration of ICT development in Africa (Sub-Saharan) nations, given the universal communal mission of sustainable energy consumption.