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Spatio-temporal estimation of electricity consumption in Bolivian municipalities using nighttime lights

Thursday, Apr 16, 2026 by Oana M. Garbasevschi, Andrea Sofia Garcia de León, Lykke E. Andersen, Guillermo Guzmán Prudencio, Michael Wurm and Hannes Taubenböck Geocarto International

This paper combines satellite nighttime-lights data with electricity-meter records to estimate spatio-temporal electricity consumption across Bolivian municipalities, providing a high-resolution proxy for local economic activity where survey data are scarce.

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