Abstract:
This survey is an attempt to measure the impacts of Solar Rooftop Systems (SRS). After a brief review of previous survey works on SRS’s importance, benefits and prospect, the study mainly focuses on the issues of SRS’s impacts on the consumer’s life. In this context, the literature of SRS related works is reviewed and afterwards, the methods and findings of an impact assessment study of SRSs in Bangladesh are described in detail. This survey study is based on data from a survey of 150 households from three former municipalities in our total unit. There are Narayanganj Municipality, Siddhirganj Municipality and Kadam Rasul Municipality. We survey 16 housholds where 8 household survey by me and 8 my partner. From the research findings, some recommendations for SRS dissemination programmers in Bangladesh are made. The research concludes with the following major findings The utilization of SRS in the area of Bangladesh exhibits clear positive impacts. However, the economic impacts of the SRS are very limited as households lack knowledge and proper training of diversified uses of SRS for income generation activities. On household level, children and women are benefited most as they spent most of their time within household premises using solar electric lighting and household appliances. At the same time, a large number of non-SRS households are being benefited indirectly from TV, radio, mobile phone, laptop and studying facilities from SRS households. Positive environmental impacts are also observed as the substitution of traditional lighting fuels save carbon dioxide emissions.
