Analyzing the Effect of Consumer Sustainability Knowledge on Biogas Using in Rural Bangladesh
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14211092Keywords:
biogas, sustainability, natural gas, energy, Rural-BangladeshAbstract
Bangladesh is solely dependent on indigenous natural gas for power generation where it has been misusing for times due to bad monitoring and defective supply-chain system. In this research, the author tries to capture the positivity of biogas system that might be proved as alternative energy system. This research aims to measure the sustainable knowledge index that can affect consumer behavior for biogas production and use. The author takes 200 households data from Rural-Bangladesh who already use biogas in home and use this for generating electricity. In this research, following systematic sampling, the author develops sustainable knowledge index (SKI) with 16 independent variables to measure the impact of these variables on Biogas raw materials collection (BRC) considering as proxy variable for biogas production. The multiple regression shows that Household Income (HI), Household Head Education (HE), Biogas Reserve Area (BR), Cattle Numbers (CN), Domestic Birds (DB), Agricultural Residues (AR) and SKI has positive and significant impact on BRC. Moreover, the author finds that biogas plant area has been divided with 3 groups (small, medium and large) where, households earn profit of US$ 125.13 (13,765 BDT) for small, US$ 150.34 (16,538 BDT) for medium and US$ 144.88 (15,937 BDT) for large plants with annual basis. The government needs to focus some strategical policies to develop consumer mentality to use biogas with large scale.
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