Households’ valuation of power outages in major cities of Ethiopia: An application of stated preference methods

In many developing countries, electricity consumers experience frequent supply interruptions, leading to high coping costs and stifled investment that contribute to energy poverty. In 2019 the authors implemented stated preference experiments – both contingent valuation studies and discrete choice experiments – to estimate households’ preferences for improved electricity supply in a nationally representative sample of urban households covering 42 cities in Ethiopia, and examined the role of energy poverty in shaping these preferences.