Sustainable Lifestyle Factors Influencing Industries’ Electric Consumption Pattern: The Case Of Nigeria

Globally,there is a paradigm shift on how to influence consumption style/patterns beyond policies and institutions.The methods applied in the attempt to minimize electricity consumption waste as result of consumer’s consumption patterns is of crucial concern for government,investors and even consumers.There is a need to identify the potential factors influencing electricity consumption pattern in order to encourage sustainable practices.Much of this work highlights the electric power consumption pattern of Nigerian industries societies’ escalating its unsustainable pattern of consumption.To examine the electricity consumption pattern and their influencing factors,this study applied Fuzzy-DEMATEL model to examine the sustainable lifestyle factors of electricity consumption pattern in Nigeria.Key sustainable lifestyle factors assessed in this study representing the exact economic,cultural,political and social heritage of each society.This research contribution lies in the application of fuzzy logic and DEMATEL to evaluate sustainable lifestyles factors that influence industries electric consumption patterns for the first time in Nigeria.Firstly,24 sustainable lifestyle factors were sourced from literature sources and grouped into 4 clusters of economic,political,environmental and socio-cultural criteria.Two sets of questionnaires were then distributed to 30 experts,which comprises of managers and senior technicians in Nigerian Power Industry.The results show that the critical factors that influence industries electric consumption patterns are corruption,inadequate planning and design,electricity theft,literacy level,population demography and lifestyle attitude.The implication for decision makers is that improving power consumption pattern in the Nigerian industries;emphasis should be placed on the critical sustainable lifestyle factors.Thus,corruption should be minimized,planning and design adequately implemented,theft of electricity curbed while improving literacy level and lifestyles of the masses to improve electric consumption patterns.