Demand of Solar Home System (SHS) among the Consumers of Off-Grid Area

Abstract

Though energy has always been a government sector, but with the rise
of global warming issues and renewable technologies, it is possible for end
consumers to buy devices like Solar-Home-System that provide electricity. This
research focuses on the demand of potential customers of SHS, who live in the
remote off-grid areas of Bangladesh. Two variables- availability of fund and
after sales service, have been tested against their willingness to buy through
binary logit model. The model has not proved to be fit. This fact was justified by
the qualitative research which reveals that, people from off-grid areas are
mostly poor and their priority is earning livelihood, rather than having
electricity. Hence these people cannot be taken as targeted customers of SHS.