Impact of Solar Energy Usage on Organizations’ Energy Needs: Evidence from Private Banks in Yemen

أثر استخدام الطاقة الشمسية على احتياجات الطاقة لدى المؤسسات: أدلة من البنوك الخاصة في اليمن

Ayman Abduh Alsabry, Hamzah Ali Qasem, Mogeeb Mosleh

International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research · 2021 · Vol. 4 · No. 12

IEEE

Abstract

Republic of Yemen is a developing country. It depends on oil for the life needs. Regarding the availability of renewable energy resources, the country has huge solar resources. Due to crises and civil wars, most organizations turned to alternative energy sources, including solar energy. The research objective is to examine the impact of solar utilization and solar usage barriers on satisfying energy needs for the organizations. Self-administered structured questionnaire is utilized to conduct a survey of 250 private bank employees in Sana’a. A simple random sampling is used to distribute the questionnaires. A correlational study is applied using quantitative method and the path coefficients analysis is used to test proposed hypotheses. The main findings of the study are three-fold. Firstly, there is negative significance impact of usage barriers on the solar energy usage and satisfying organization’s needs. Secondly, the effect of usage barriers on the overall solar usage satisfaction is insignificant. Finally, solar energy usage has a positive significance effect on satisfying organizational needs and overall solar usage satisfaction.

Keywords

Organization’s need Overall Satisfaction Renewable Energy Resources Solar Energy Structural equation modeling