JAUE2022-100: Future Projections and Control of Residential Energy Consumption in Cambodia

Abstract

Cambodia has been achieving rapid economic growth. According to it, residential energy consumption has been increasing remarkably. As the need to control the rapid increase in the residential sector, energy situation and accurate consumption should be grasped. In this research, a prediction method for the residential energy consumption of Cambodia was developed. Then, residential energy consumption per household and the total of that in Cambodia was projected until 2040. As the result, energy consumption per household in the total area will decrease while that in the urban area will increase in the future. It is because many households in the rural area are using biomass fuels for their cooking at this moment, but this situation would be changed, and people will become to use LPG and electricity for cooking along with the modernization in Cambodia. Finally, we tested the energy-efficiency measures and concluded the most effective measure was introducing an efficient refrigerator.