Improving access to energy in sub-Saharan Africa

Prasad, Gisela

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2011.05.003

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“…As Adams et al (2016) strengthened, the energy consumption of the average African in the early 2000s was less than what an average British used in England more than a hundred years ago. Overall, the electricity access rate for SSA has improved from 23% in 2000 to 37% in 2014 with the electrification levels ranging from 3% in Burundi to 100% in Mauritius -the only country in SSA that has achieved 100% electrification (Prasad, 2011). In comparison, more than 99% of the total population of North Africa has access to electricity.…”

Section: Energy and Sustainability In Sub-saharan Africamentioning

confidence: 97%

“…A number of studies have been carried out mentioning the RE potential of SSA countries (Eberhard et al, 2011;Prasad, 2011;Bazilian, et al, 2012;Suberu et al, 2013;IEA, 2014;Mukasa et al, 2015;Adams et al, 2016;Rupf et al, 2016), but there is a lack of in-depth empirical studies carried out to analyse the drivers of RE in these countries. This article aims to bridge that gap by performing an empirical analysis to determine the factors that affect the growth of RE in SSA countries.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Determinants of renewable energy growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from panel ARDL

Silva

Cerqueira

Ogbe

2018

Energy

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Given the importance of renewable energy in the discussion of a reliable and sustainable energy future, it is imperative to understand its main determinants and to draw result implications for energy policy. This study analyses these determinants for Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a panel data technique, namely the panel-ARDL model for a period covering 1990-2014, the results suggest that economic development (per capita GDP) and an increased use of energy aid renewable energy development while population growth impedes it. Furthermore, the study investigates the potentials and current status of renewable energy in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article shows that although the region has great potential for developing renewable energy such as wind, biomass, solar and hydropower, dispersed throughout the continent, this potential has not been fully explored, even though many resources are plentifully available, and evidence good economic potential.

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Section: Energy and Sustainability In Sub-saharan Africamentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Determinants of renewable energy growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from panel ARDL

Silva

Cerqueira

Ogbe

2018

Energy

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“…The positive contribution of infrastructure towards socio-economic growth and development is broadly acknowledged in the academic and policy literature [6][7][8]. Infrastructure investments have contributed more than half to Africa's economic growth in recent years in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) [9]. However, and therefore of major relevance to economic growth and development, Nigeria suffers from obsolete infrastructure [10][11][12].…”

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The Development of an Infrastructure Quality Index for Nigerian Metropolitan Areas Using Multivariate Geo-Statistical Data Fusion

Ojo

Papachristodoulou

Ibeh³

2018

Urban Science

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Nigeria recently witnessed a decade of urban, economic, and social transformation. However, certain features of the Nigerian business environment act as constraints on economic growth. These characteristics also deter investment and exasperate business competitiveness. Inadequate infrastructure is identified as a major constraint to growth and competitiveness. This article summarises the technical development of a City Infrastructure Quality Index (CIQI) aimed at providing a relative measure of performance in urban infrastructure in Nigeria, focusing specifically on factors of production and resources for inclusive economic growth and development. The design of the CIQI adopts quality assurance principles undergirded by a five-stage systematic integration and calibration of spatial statistics derived from secondary data sources. The results have allowed for the piloting of a comparative framework for gauging good practice, excellence and adherence to recognisable standards in the provision of infrastructure across 37 Nigerian urban and metropolitan areas.

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“…At the same time, UN Habitat estimates that up to 1.6 billion people around the world do not have access to electricity and that around 2 billion people rely on biomass fuels for cooking. 6 Urban energy transition in the South thus clearly means something very different from the North, combining issues around governance, access to finance, trade and supply chains with everyday concerns of, amongst other things, very low basic household incomes, availability of cooking fuel and indoor air pollution (Barnes et al, 2005;Prasad, 2011). The scale of any urban energy transition therefore appears monumental, in both the North and South, with pressure on energy resources from population and economic growth likely to be exacerbated in various ways in all urban contexts.…”

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Urban Energy Transitions: Places, Processes and Politics of Socio-technical Change

Rutherford¹,

Coutard²

2014

Urban Studies

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city of British Columbia aspires to become ''the greenest city in the world by 2020'' (City of Vancouver, 2012, pp. ii and 5). Vancouver is already set to bring . community-based greenhouse gas emissions [in 2012] down to 5% below 1990 levels, even as [the City's] population has grown by more than 27 per cent and jobs have increased by over 18% (City of Vancouver, 2012, p. 18).Meanwhile, 1000 kilometres to the northeast, in many parts of the state of Alberta, mining companies are actively extracting as many fossil fuels as the domestic and international markets can bear from the huge provincial reserves of bituminous coal and oil sands, making the latter ''the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada'' according to Greenpeace. 2 Hence, while more and more cities and regions around the world, like Vancouver, boast very ambitious low carbon strategies, pointing to hopeful ''soft energy paths'' of more sustainable and peaceful energy and urban futures, current global economic, geopolitical and indeed geological trends generate quite different tendencies towards a prioritising of industrial profits and national energy autonomy/self-sufficiency.

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Improving access to energy in sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 32 publications

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Determinants of renewable energy growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from panel ARDL

Determinants of renewable energy growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from panel ARDL

The Development of an Infrastructure Quality Index for Nigerian Metropolitan Areas Using Multivariate Geo-Statistical Data Fusion

Urban Energy Transitions: Places, Processes and Politics of Socio-technical Change

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