Rose W. Wanjugu

Determinants of Investing in Biogas Technology Among Rural Households: a Case of Lanet Location, Dundori Division, Nakuru County, Kenya Rose W. Wanjugu

Access to energy resources in Africa presents challenges to human health, environmental health, and economic development. With Kenya striving to achieve the millennium development goals of 2015 and Vision 2030 that seek to integrate the principles of sustainable development into the country?s policies and programmes and further reverse loss of environmental resources, there is a need to understand concerns facing the Adoption of Biogas technology in rural households. Ex-post-facto survey research design was used with the target population being drawn from rural households in Lanet Location, Dundori Division of Nakuru North District on a sample size of 324 households. Data was collected through structured questionnaires and analyzed using the SPSS version 17 software. Findings revealed 80.9% of the respondents affirmed that their level of income did influence their decision on investment of Biogas with a skewed distribution of households in favour of households without biogas 246 (75.9 %) in relation to those that had adopted the same 78(24.1%). The costs of setting up a biogas unit was cited as a key impediment to the adoption of the technology