Data Used for EDeMOS (Electricity Demand Mapping from Open-Source Data): Kenya Case Study

The information in this repository pertains to the Kenya case study for EDeMOS. EDeMOS is an innovative, open-source methodology designed for analyzing electricity consumption at a spatially detailed level in any geography. 

References.

A high-resolution gridded dataset to assess electrification in sub-Saharan Africa

Falchetta, G., Pachauri, S., Parkinson, S. et al. A high-resolution gridded dataset to assess electrification in sub-Saharan Africa. Sci Data 6, 110 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0122-6.

Gridded global Gross Domestic Product and Human Development Index datasets over 1990–2015

Kummu, M., Taka, M. & Guillaume, J. Gridded global datasets for Gross Domestic Product and Human Development Index over 1990–2015. Sci Data 5, 180004 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.4

High-Resolution Electricity Access. set_lightscore_sy_xxxx.tif: Predicted likelihood that a settlement is electrified (0 to 1)

Brian Min, Zachary P. O'Keeffe, Babatunde Abidoye, Kwawu Mensan Gaba, Trevor Monroe, Benjamin P. Stewart, Kim Baugh, Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño, “Lost in the Dark: A Survey of Energy Poverty from Space,” Joule (2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2024.05.001. 

Relative Wealth Index (RWI) 

Samapriya Roy, Swetnam, T., & Saah, A. (2025). samapriya/awesome-gee-community-datasets: Community Catalog (3.2.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14757583. 

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). DHS

ICF. Kenya: Standard DHS, 2022 Dataset. The DHS Program website. Funded by USAID. http://www.dhsprogram.com. [Accessed 01, 31, 2025].

other

Kenya Population and Housing Census 2019. KNBS, 2019.