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1Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences [CES], Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
2Faculty of Architecture, Unversity of Melbourne, Australia
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Method

Stratified random survey of households was undertaken during Aug-Dec-2011 through a structured and pre-tested questionnaire in select wards of Greater Bangalore to elicit information related to household energy consumption for cooking, water heating, mobility, etc. Survey has been carried out in 1967  households covering different wards of Bangalore.

Questionnaire was designed to compile data covering various parameters such as satisfaction with overall environment, residential status, building type, kind of facilities near home and energy consumption behavior of households. Energy consumption in the household is the outcome of various household activities depending on the gadgets,  efficiency of the gadgets, kind of fuel used, etc. Carbon emissions  due to electricity consumption  is computed by equation 1.

                        C= βE                                          …1

Where C is carbon dioxide emission β is emission factor (.81 ton/MWh) for carbon dioxide and E is consumption of electricity.

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Citation : Vishnu Bajpai, Gouri Kulkarni, Sun Sheng Han and Ramachandra. T.V, 2012. Carbon Emissions due to Electricity Consumption in the Residential Sector., Proceedings of the LAKE 2012: National Conference on Conservation and Management of Wetland Ecosystems, 06th - 09th November 2012, School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, pp. 1-6.
* Corresponding Author :
Dr. T.V. Ramachandra
Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, India.
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