Assets power solar and battery uptake in Kenya
利用肯尼亚家庭调查数据，研究发现银行账户、移动货币账户和土地价值等资产是家庭采用太阳能系统的重要驱动因素，而无力承担电网连接费用的家庭采用率较低。
Solar and battery adoption for households offers many benefits that motivate increased understanding of what drives investment. This paper uses microdata from a household survey in Kenya to investigate factors explaining investment in solar home systems, solar lighting systems, solar lanterns, and solar batteries. Key findings highlight the importance of assets for each investment type. Households are more likely to have a solar home system when they have bank or mobile money accounts, and when they own land with large values. Households are less likely to adopt solar systems when they are unable to afford grid connection, compared to households who are far away from electricity grids. Interaction analysis reveals that off-grid households without a mobile money account in key disadvantaged counties have lower solar home system adoption. A key policy implication is that support could be targeted to households with low levels of assets, in addition to existing support for suppliers.