Carbon Dioxide Emission Accounting of Grid-powered Streetlights

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the total carbon dioxide emission of the grid-powered streetlights in a barangay. This study uses both Qualitative and Quantitative Research, following the case study and computational techniques. Based on the collated responses from the semi-structured interview guide sheet and face to face interview, the barangay council have put these grid-powered streetlights for the safety of everyone. Moreover, they knew about the Carbon dioxide emission but not much about it but still they would pursue setting up solar-powered streetlights as their action to mitigate the situation. Results of the computation presents that there were 7.44 Kwh and 223.2 Kwh of electricity consumed for a day and month respectively. From this, the breakdown on the composition of each power source was also identified. Moreover, a total of 297.7 lbs of CO2 was emitted from the total consumed electricity of the grid-powered streetlights for a month. Furthermore, it is recommended that the barangay officials would have to follow the environmental management plan for a sounder community and environment for it prevents from extra wastes and pollution. Most importantly, this study would help the community and environmental sector to track their emissions of carbon dioxide from the different grid-powered inputs.