Climate and health benefits of a transition from gas to electric cooking.

ABSTRACT: Household electrification is thought to be an important part of a carbon-neutral future and could also have additional benefits to adopting households such as improved air quality. However, the effectiveness of specific electrification policies in reducing total emissions and boosting household livelihoods remains a crucial open question in both developed and developing countries. We investigated a transition of more than 750,000 households from gas to electric cookstoves-one of the most popular residential electrification strategies-in Ecuador following a program that promoted induction stoves and assessed its impacts on electricity consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and health. We estimate that the program resulted in a 5% increase in total residential electricity consumption between

SUBMITTER: Gould CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10450649 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature