Sustainable energy in Africa: A comprehensive data and policies review

Mandelli, Stefano; Barbieri, Jacopo; Mattarolo, Lorenzo; Colombo, Emanuela

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2014.05.069

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“…Some of the utilities are implementing load shedding policies to meet the local electricity demand. The average number of days/month of outage of electricity in 2008-2009 in sub-Saharan Africa was 10.3 with each outage lasting an average of 6.70 h [56].…”

Section: Energy Crisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Southern Africa’s Water–Energy Nexus: Towards Regional Integration and Development

Mabhaudhi

Mpandeli

Madhlopa

et al. 2016

Water

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Abstract:The Southern African Development Community's (SADC) water and energy sectors are under increasing pressure due to population growth and agricultural and industrial development. Climate change is also negatively impacting on the region's water and energy resources. As the majority of SADC's population lives in poverty, regional development and integration are underpinned by water and energy security as the watercourses in the region are transboundary in nature. This paper reviews the region's water and energy resources and recommends policies based on the water-energy nexus approach. This is achieved by reviewing literature on water and energy resources as well as policy issues. Water resources governance provides a strong case to create a water-energy nexus platform to support regional planning and integration as SADC countries share similar climatic and hydrological conditions. However, there has been a gap between water and energy sector planning in terms of policy alignment and technical convergence. These challenges hinder national policies on delivering economic and social development goals, as well as constraining the regional goal of greater integration. Regional objectives on sustainable energy and access to clean water for all can only be achieved through the recognition of the water-energy nexus, championed in an integrated and sustainable manner. A coordinated regional water-energy nexus approach stimulates economic growth, alleviates poverty and reduces high unemployment rates. The shared nature of water and energy resources requires far more transboundary water-energy nexus studies to be done in the context of regional integration and policy formulation.

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Section: Energy Crisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It should be noted 1 that South Africa has the largest installed capacity in the region, with most of the electricity being 2 generated by coal-fired power plants [50,56]. However, the heavy reliance on this type of fuel is It has been widely acknowledged that the SADC region is faced with significant energy challenges [34].…”

Section: Energy Crisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Southern Africa’s Water–Energy Nexus: Towards Regional Integration and Development

Mabhaudhi

Mpandeli

Madhlopa

et al. 2016

Water

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“…It is estimated that in sub-Saharan Africa, almost 920 million people will use wood-based fuels by 2030, compared to approximately 750 million today [15]. In order to reduce the risk of a looming supply-demand mismatch, appropriate resource management strategies must be developed based on an accurate assessment of the current energy situation at the local scale [16].…”

Section: The Energy Policy Challengementioning

confidence: 99%

Accounting for the Boundary Problem at Subnational Level: The Supply–Demand Balance of Biomass Cooking Fuels in Kitui County, Kenya

Bär

Ehrensperger

2018

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Abstract:In sub-Saharan Africa, the high demand for wood-based cooking fuels calls for urgent policy action to steer the cooking energy sector towards more sustainability. While the subnational scale is growing in importance for policy planning, current energy assessments still only consider individual entities without taking into account resource flows. Ignoring flows of biomass cooking fuels in supply-demand assessments is a system boundary problem that can lead to misleading policy recommendations. In this paper, we tackle the boundary problem in subnational supply-demand assessments and provide a tool to support knowledge-based decision-making on the management of biomass cooking fuels in sub-Saharan Africa. Using Kitui County as a case study, we developed and tested an approach consisting of a supply model, local demand model, balance model, availability model, and adjusted balance model. The balance model only considers local fuel supplies and demand, whereas the adjusted balance model also considers external demand, which reduces the locally available supply of fuel. The results show that fuel demand and supply are spatially heterogeneous and vary between wood-based and non-woody fuels, and that the transport distance of fuels strongly affects local fuel availability and determines whether the supply-demand balance is positive or negative. We conclude that subnational energy policies should consider geographical distribution of supply and demand, aim to increase the fuel mix, consider external demand in supply-demand assessments, and differentiate between fuels for self-consumption and the market.

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“…Nevertheless, nowadays about 1.3 billion people still lack access to electricity and about 82% of these live in rural areas of DCs [1]. Moreover, when power supply is available in these areas, reliability is often a serious issue and long outages occur several days per month [2]. Especially in rural areas, low electrification rates and poor reliability of the power supply is a burden in the process of local development.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Electro-mechanical model for understanding the operation and dynamic behavior of a micro-grid: A case study in Tanzania

Mandelli

Merlo

Tedeschi

et al. 2015

2015 Tenth International Conference on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies (EVER)

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Abstract-This paper introduces the project Energy4Growing which aims to set up a hybrid micro-grid to supply power to a school in rural Tanzania. It describes the results of the early project actions which concerned: (i) monitoring of the actual school power supply system; (ii) first step development of a new model which addresses the simulation of the electro-mechanical operation and dynamic behavior within an off-grid power supply system with respect to perturbation in the power injections and consumptions. In particular it focuses on the new model which has the capability to address: (i) V and F trends analysis over medium term period by means of simplified electrical models of power sources and power electronics, (ii) the analysis of different control strategies and their consequence on V and f trends, (iii) the effects of control strategies on the energy performances of particular components such as battery pack or dump loads. This new approach is also applied by modelling the actual school power supply system with MATLAB SimPowerSystem.

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Sustainable energy in Africa: A comprehensive data and policies review

Cited by 118 publications

References 149 publications

Southern Africa’s Water–Energy Nexus: Towards Regional Integration and Development

Southern Africa’s Water–Energy Nexus: Towards Regional Integration and Development

Accounting for the Boundary Problem at Subnational Level: The Supply–Demand Balance of Biomass Cooking Fuels in Kitui County, Kenya

Electro-mechanical model for understanding the operation and dynamic behavior of a micro-grid: A case study in Tanzania

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