Problems of Sustainable Energy in sub-Saharan Africa and Possible Solutions

Ganda, Fortune; Ngwakwe, Collins C.

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“…The lowest costs per kWh are obtained using WT 1 , while the 2 nd and 3 rd third positions in rank are taken, respectively by WT 3 and WT 2 . WT4 and WT 5 exhibit the same performance. WT 6 shows the highest cost per kWh of energy produced.…”

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“…Despite being the least growing region in terms of WE generation capacity, Africa has WE resources and potential that can meet its current needs, if properly tapped. Several studies have shown that the wind resource in Africa is greatest around the coasts and in the eastern highlands [4] [5]. However, the WE development in the African continent remains very slow as a result of limited support at the level of the continent, since the vast majority of WE projects necessitate financial support from organizations based out of the continent [6].…”

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Seasonal Wind Characteristics and Prospects of Wind Energy Conversion Systems for Water Production in the Far North Region of Cameroon

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Deli³

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This study aimed at investigating the characteristics of the wind power resource in the Far North Region of Cameroon (FNR), based on modelling of daily long-term satellite-derived data (2005-2020) and in-situ wind measurements data (1987-2020). Five different reliable statistical indicators assessed the accuracy level for the goodness-of-fit tests of satellite-derived data. The two-parameter Weibull distribution function using the energy factor method described the statistical distribution of wind speed and investigated the characteristics of the wind power resource. Six 10-kW pitch-controlled wind turbines (WT) evaluated the power output, energy and water produced. A 50 m pumping head was considered to estimate seasonal variations of volumetric flow rates and costs of water produced. The results revealed that the wind resource in FNR is suitable only for wind pumping applications. Based on the hydraulic requirements for wind pumps, mechanical wind pumping system can be the most cost-effective option of wind pumping technologies in FNR. However, based on the estimated capacity factors of selected WT, wind electric pumping system can be acceptable for only four out of twenty-one sites in FNR.

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Seasonal Wind Characteristics and Prospects of Wind Energy Conversion Systems for Water Production in the Far North Region of Cameroon

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Bogno²,

Deli³

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“…Expanding access to modern energy services had been an enormous challenge for developing countries, especially in the poorest countries (Legros et al, 2009). Part of the challenge to expanding energy access in SSA as argued by Ganda and Ngwakwe (2014) is the continued employment of fossil fuel subsidies and high transaction costs. Other associated problems include presence of monopoly structures in the energy sectors, large capital required to fund sustainable schemes, regulatory and macroeconomic risks in sustainable energy schemes, low carbon risk and negative social impacts.…”

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The study assesses the effect of energy use on social, economic and environmental sustainability in Africa. The energy sources considered in the study comprises four prominent sources in Africa, including: fossil fuel, solid fuel, electricity and natural gas consumption. The finding suggests that fossil fuel consumption and solid fuel constitute about 75% of energy use in the region and contributively worsen social and environmental conditions. The predominant consumption of these dirty energies has severely hampered child and adult survival and efficient delivery of services. Also, the time wasted in fetching biomass has constituted an impediment to learning capacities in children and women's mobility. In the same manner, frequent exposure to fumes from the dirty energy sources had resulted in severe indoor air pollution and rising incidence of pneumonia, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases in women and children. On the other hand, the empirical and conceptual analysis shows that access to clean and reliable energy sources (such as electricity) reduce time poverty, enhance gender empowerment and reduce environmental degradation. The study recommends structural policy reforms and transformation towards decentralizing energy provisions and adopting off-grid power solution to rural areas. Furthermore, African governments need to develop a sustainable energy financing mechanism through an affordable pricing template; this can be achieved by increasing local contents in energy provision and increasing the share of abundant domestic resource in energy mix.

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“…Among causes of environmental issues, it is furtherly clear that our energy consumption has a detrimental impact on the environment and our health (Xing et al 2019). Sub Saharan Africa is certainly the most contrasted continent with a very dichotomy of energy systems (Ganda and Ngwakwe 2014). Inefficient traditional forms of energy, mainly fuelwood and charcoal, continue to dominate in most countries of sub-Saharan Africa, especially for cooking uses (Manfred Hafner, Simone Tagliapietra, and Lucia De Strasser 2018).…”

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An Impulse of Human Activities to Carbon Dioxide Gas Emissions in the Sub-Saharan Africa Region

2021

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It is complicated to determine with exactitude the share of responsibility of the various sources of pollution for Africa. This intricacy emphasizes that pollution is not always considered a major risk for the continent. The existing data are still too few and often too imprecise to assess the extent of pollution on the continent. Sub-Saharan Africa is challenged by increasing pollution reinforced by a lack of politics and goodwill to formulate and implement good practices to deal with climate change issues. This paper highlight trends in carbon emissions due to agricultural land, energy use, agriculture-forestry and fisheries (value adds), real gross domestic product, and industry and construction based on their importance to the productive capacity of SSA. The output from the proposed study of causality between variables using the impulse response functions and the forecast error decomposition revealed this: the rise in agriculture/forestry, and fisheries, and energy use has positive shocks on CO2 emissions. The carbon emissions growth in the SSA does not necessarily reckon on agricultural land, industry construction or manufactural construction, and real gross domestic product.

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Problems of Sustainable Energy in sub-Saharan Africa and Possible Solutions

Abstract: This paper examines the problems of promoting sustainable energy in sub-

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Seasonal Wind Characteristics and Prospects of Wind Energy Conversion Systems for Water Production in the Far North Region of Cameroon

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