New Renewable Energy Promotion Approach for Rural Electrification in Cameroon

Kenfack, Joseph; Bossou, Olivier Videme; Voufo, Joseph; Djom, Samuel; Crettenand, Nicolas

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18215-5_38

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“…The main climate adaptation policy mainstreamed in the energy sector revolves around the promotion of the use of renewable energy and enhancing energy efficiency in the country; and to also facilitate the use of renewable energy within the context of expanding rural electrification (ARSEL, 2014). Under this policy, several rural electrification projects using renewable energy sources have been executed in the country (Kenfack et al, 2016). Since the 2012 financial year, the importation of solar or wind energy installation and operating equipment are exempted from value added tax (ARSEL 2014).…”

Section: Energy Sectormentioning

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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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Section: Energy Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Nkiaka

Lovett

2018

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…In spite of this rising demand, no amount of energy available can be sufficient, and the use of fossil fuels is declining [2]. In addition, the diminishing supply of fossil fuels, the rise in oil cost, and the environmental issues with traditional energy sources, such as global warming [3], we turn to alternative energy sources because of the effects of carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and environmental contamination [4]. Recently, the energy produced from clean, efficient, and nonharmful sources vis-à-vis the environment has become one of the main energy sources of the biggest difficulties faced by scientists and engineers [5,6].…”

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confidence: 99%

Dynamic Performance Improvement Using Model Reference Adaptive Control of Photovoltaic Systems under Fast-Changing Atmospheric Conditions

Mindzie,

Kenfack,

Joseph

et al. 2023

International Journal of Photoenergy

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The effectiveness of a photovoltaic (PV) system can be increased by using maximum power point tracking (MPPT). The literature has suggested a number of methods for tracking the maximum power point (MPP). However, this number of methods most often presents a high convergence speed in reaching the MPP, complexity under their implementation, power fluctuations, overshoots, and great difficulty in reaching the MPP under fast-changing atmospheric conditions, thus influencing the efficiency of PV systems. Intending to improve the performance of PV systems under rapid changes in the atmosphere, this paper proposes model reference adaptive control (MRAC) as a technique for tracking the MPP based on the employ of reference models such as optimal voltage and current at the MPP ( V MPP and I MPP ). The MATLAB/Simulink environment is used to produce the simulation results; the Kyocera Solar KC 130 GT module is used here as a photovoltaic power plant, connected to a boost converter, supplying a resistive load. The Lyapunov theory was used to demonstrate the stability of the system. The simulation outcomes obtained using the suggested method are compared with those obtained by techniques such as perturb and observe (P&O), incremental conductance (INC), variable step incremental conductance (VSINC), particle swarm optimization (PSO), and grey wolf optimization (GWO), thus showing a very large improvement under standard test and fast-changing atmospheric conditions of the technique proposed on the other techniques in terms of convergence speed and tracking efficiency. The simulation results prove that the suggested method has great tracking effectiveness (>99.88%), less time for convergence (<0.01 s), and simple implementation complexity under fast-changing atmospheric conditions without both transient and steady-state power oscillations, overshoots, and chattering effects, thus causing a great minimization of energy losses, and the proposed technique reaches exactly the MPP under fast-changing atmospheric conditions.

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Exploring the potential of decentralized renewable energy conversion systems on water, energy, and food security in africa

Mperejekumana,

Shen,

Zhong

et al. 2024

Energy Conversion and Management

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New Renewable Energy Promotion Approach for Rural Electrification in Cameroon

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

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

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

Dynamic Performance Improvement Using Model Reference Adaptive Control of Photovoltaic Systems under Fast-Changing Atmospheric Conditions

Exploring the potential of decentralized renewable energy conversion systems on water, energy, and food security in africa

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