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Energy use in the life

( Update: 03/10/2014 )

Fuel use in daily family activities is one of the signs to get to know the rich poor. The wealthier households often use clean fuels such as electricity, gas, ... The poor often use solid fuels such as wood, charcoal, coal or biomass such as agricultural straw, animal dung ... The large poor population using solid fuels in sub-Saharan Africa (accounting for over 80%), in India and other Asian countries (BD 1.1 and B 1.1). By 2030, about 3 billion people around the world still use solid fuels for cooking and heating, in which 2.5 billion people use traditional biomass such as wood, charcoal, agricultural wastes, cattle dung ..., and about 400 million users of coal (B 1.2).
 
One of the strategies to improve the quality of life for the poor is to clean energy in daily life.
People of Asian countries daily cooking also uses solid fuel can mention Laos: 97, 5%, Myanmar: 92.6%, Cambodia: 92.4%, mainly firewood and charcoal. Water use animal dung for cooking and heating are Afghanistan: 27%, Mongolia: 23.3% and India: 10.6% (B 1.1). For only source of fuel for lighting, Sub-Saharan Africa, the total population of around 850 million people, the majority of people are poor, 41.7% had to use kerosene for lighting, followed by a candle used : 20.85%, electricity and other energy sources are used quite low (BD 1.2).
In developing countries, more than 50% of the energy used to cook, the average rural household income using 20% or more to buy firewood or charcoal for cooking. The developed countries, households consume more fuel, usually electricity and clean energy sources. However, in Europe, the continent still grow more than 10% average is not enough fuel for heating, in which 35% of households in Portugal can not afford to pay for heating fuel, followed by Bulgaria
For decades, many developing countries are trying to develop power and clean fuel sources to meet people's lives. However, by 2009, the number of people with access to electricity to use is still limited. Worldwide, 1.4 billion people do not have access to electricity and 85% of the rural population does not have electricity. Asia Pacific countries have 100% of households have access to electricity, Korea, Maldives, Malaysia, Thailand, China, and Vietnam nearly 90% (B BD 1.3 and 1.4). Forecasts to 2040 the number of households in the world will increase, the number and structure of fuels used in the home will change much. However, oil and gas as well as two leading fuel, accounting for about 60% of world demand
 

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