Sustainable and environment friendly energy source for Rukungiri District
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2011-09
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In Uganda, development is largely pulled back by lack of reliable,
sustainable and environment friendly energy. The thesis entitled “A
sustainable and environment friendly energy source for Rukungiri District
“is presented as a result of the research carried out in Rukungiri District
based on the problem of energy crisis and based the three specific
objectives, namely: to Identify the sources of energy currently available to
the people of Rukungiri District, to determine the costs of energy sources
available to the people of Rukungiri, and to Identify the advantages and
disadvantages of the identified sources of energy available in the district.
The study adopted a descriptive research design by collecting detailed
information energy users,and households randomly as well as selection
method for example Solar home users and those connected to the
national grid. The study selected a total population of 200 households to
be interviewed and questionnaire distributed to them. Using the simple
random sampling procedure, the researcher came out with the sample
size of 133 house hold respondents. The study employed observation and
structured questionnaire approach to get primary data, as well as existing
information as secondary data. The data collected was presented in tables.
The findings showed that all the house hold use firewood as their source
of energy and very small percent connected to the national grid.55perceflt
of the correspondents use Solar energy as a supplement to other sources
of energy used by the households.
It was recommended that the government needs to do more to extend
power to the rural Rukungiri and encourage a forestation. Facilitation
need to be extended from the government and other NGO to the people
of Rukungiri district so that Solar energy can be increasingly used since
there is no monthly bills and is renewable. The study recommends mall
interest loans to be extended to them.
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A Thesis Presented To the School Of Postgraduate Studies and Research Kampala International University Kampala, Uganda In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements For The Degree Of Master Of Project Planning And Management
Keywords
Environment, Rukungiri District, Energy Source