Impact of energy poverty alleviation actions on energy demand and co2 emission: A case study of SriLanka

This study aims at investigation of impacts from three energy poverty alleviation actions, namely electrification, penetration of efficient technologies and urbanization on residential sector energy demand and CO₂ emission in Sri Lanka. The Long-range Energy Alternative Planning (LEAP) package is used by taking the time horizon as 2009-2030. Five scenarios are modeled; namely i) reference, ii) electrification, iii) penetration, iv) urbanization and the v) combined scenario. Results showed that combined, penetration and urbanization actions reduce the energy demand by 9.25%, 7.5% and 1.54% respectively, while electrification increases the energy demand by 1.35%. Furthermore, in the fuel mix demand for biomass has significantly reduced in the combined and the penetration scenarios while LPG has increased due to all actions. On the other hand, CO₂ emission was increased in the electrification, the urbanization and the combined scenarios where electrification effect has the highest increase with 9.4% while in the penetration scenario it has reduced by 10.8%.