How can we promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in Central Africa? A Cameroon case study

Kenfack, Joseph; Bossou, Olivier Videme; Tchaptchet, Eric Rostand Njike

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2016.11.108

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“…In order to produce adequate, inexpensive, and environmentally-friendly energy and establish alternative combinations and existing renewables sources of energy, the relevant necessary steps require implementation. Numerous authors have suggested that developing and developed countries should use renewable energy sources such as alternative and sustainable energy over conventional energy sources [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51].…”

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Investigating the Linkage between Economic Growth, Electricity Access, Energy Use, and Population Growth in Pakistan

Rehman

Zhang

2018

Applied Sciences

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Electricity is a versatile form of energy that plays a vital role in fulfilling the daily requirements of human life. The primary aim of this study was to investigate and explore the link between economic growth, electricity access, energy use, and population growth in Pakistan for the period 1990–2016. An autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration was applied to investigate the causality link between the study variables. These tests shed light on the long-run connection among the variables; further, the results revealed that the electricity access to the total population, electricity access to the urban population, energy usage, population growth, and urban population growth had a significant impact on economic growth, while the electricity access to the rural population and rural population growth had a negative impact on the economic growth in Pakistan. According to these findings, this study recommends that the government of Pakistan pay further attention to increasing its electricity production from different sources, including hydroelectric, solar, oil, and gas, and nuclear in order to fulfill the country’s demands.

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Investigating the Linkage between Economic Growth, Electricity Access, Energy Use, and Population Growth in Pakistan

Rehman

Zhang

2018

Applied Sciences

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“…Sharing the cause of failed projects will help avoid repeating errors and make operators successful and ensure the correct promotion of renewable energy [17]. The system should be designed to be simple but also robust and easy to repair.…”

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Overcoming local constraints when developing renewable energy systems for the electrification of remote areas in Africa

Kenfack

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Ekam

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Renew. Energy Environ. Sustain.

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Sub Saharan Africa has a great renewable energy potential. Rural areas are suffering from poor energy access. Some systems designed to address this issue are still faced with some difficulties. Appropriate approaches and energy plant development will help remote areas to address the issue of electricity access. The current development of some micro hydro and micro solar energy plants is of poor quality and maintenance, sometimes resulting in failures. There are also some common mistakes made when promoting (designing) an energy system in an African environment. Identifying issues from local constraints and lessons learned will contribute to determining the appropriate sizing, technology and tools to correctly develop micro hydro and micro solar energy plants.

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“…Furthermore, it has been argued that the agricultural sector holds the key to achieving the SDGs including mitigation agendas in fragile regions (England et al, 2018). Thirdly, the sub-region's energy sector has great potentials for hydropower development in the continent with an overall potential of 133 GW (Kenfack et al, 2017).…”

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Mainstreaming climate adaptation into sectoral policies in Central Africa: Insights from Cameroun

Nkiaka

Lovett

2018

Environmental Science & Policy

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While considerable advances have been made in mainstreaming climate adaptation into sectoral policies in most regions across Africa, little is known about Central Africa (CA) even though the sub-region has enormous potentials to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions through the Congo basin forest. This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the progress made in mainstreaming climate adaptation into sectoral policies in CA based on insights from Cameroun. To achieve this, 30 strategic policy documents published by the government of Cameroun covering different aspects of climate adaptation were exploited. Additional information was obtained from interviews with 27 stakeholders working in relevant government ministries/institutions and international organizations. Results show that significant progress has been made to mainstream climate adaptation into the forestry and energy sectors. This has been facilitated by the putting in place of national policies that consider climate change impacts and mitigation/adaptation in these sectors. Meanwhile, little progress has been recorded in the water and agricultural. The lack of progress in these sectors can be attributed to the absence of national policies that take into account climate change impacts in these sectors. Overall results show that the National Adaptation Plan of Action has played a key role in enhancing the mainstreaming of climate adaptation into sectoral policies in Cameroun. Notwithstanding the progress recorded, many obstacles such as the lack of human and financial resources still exist. Stakeholders proposed a series of potentially useful solutions to tackling obstacles hindering cross-sectoral mainstreaming initiatives. This paper contributes to contemporary debates on the extent to which adaptation mainstreaming is happening at national level in sub-Saharan Africa, and reveals the obstacles that need to be addressed in order to sustain this initiative in CA and other regions of the continent.

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How can we promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in Central Africa? A Cameroon case study

Cited by 33 publications

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Investigating the Linkage between Economic Growth, Electricity Access, Energy Use, and Population Growth in Pakistan

Investigating the Linkage between Economic Growth, Electricity Access, Energy Use, and Population Growth in Pakistan

Overcoming local constraints when developing renewable energy systems for the electrification of remote areas in Africa

Mainstreaming climate adaptation into sectoral policies in Central Africa: Insights from Cameroun

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