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Publication date: 2018, June
Author: Hogan Lovells
Description: This report explores how utility-scale renewable energy projects are being deployed across sub-Saharan Africa. It covers the decisions that have been taken and their successes and failures; the persisting hurdles and new opportunities; and how experiences in individual countries are informing deployment decisions in others.
Publication date: 2018, June
Author: DLA Piper
Description: DLA Piper is proud to release the first edition of Renewable Energy in Africa. This publication is an ambitious task, seeking to summarise each country’s regulatory environment for renewable energy, highlight the key policy objectives for national governments and provide insight into the projects which are anticipated to deliver these goals.
Publication date: 2018, June
Author: USAID
Description: This Power Africa Gas Roadmap builds on the Power Africa Roadmap to outline a plan for achieving up to 16,000 MW of additional gas-fired power generation in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030, which is over 50 percent of Power Africa’s topline goal. Exhibit 1 illustrates the anticipated impact of Power Africa support for gas-to-power projects.
Publication date: 2018, June
Author: Law Business Research
Description: Law Business Research - The Energy Regulation and Markets Review - 7th Edition.
Publication date: 2018, June
Author: Multiconsult / NMBU / AfDB
Description: AfDB’s New Deal on Energy for Africa 2016-2025. The starting point for this analysis is the AfDB’s “aspirational vision to achieve universal access to electricity by 2025 – 100% access in urban areas and 95% access in rural areas.” The Strategy goes further in terms of establishing “strategic building blocks to achieve universal access”, which by 2025 include 130 million new grid connections and 75 million end-users benefiting from off-grid solutions.
Publication date: 2018, June
Author: SolarPower Europe
Description: In this year’s edition we are delighted to have a special focus on the GW-scale solar power markets in 2017 around the globe, assessing the status, challenges and forecasts in the world’s largest markets thanks to insightful contributions by solar associations from Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, United States and Turkey. Moreover, the Trends chapter explores the developments that will shape the solar power sector in the coming years, covering solar mobility, storage, corporate sourcing and emerging markets, amongst other topics.
Publication date: 2018, May
Author: AfDB
Description: This first Electricity Regulatory Index therefore aims to serve as the basis for carrying out future periodic assessments of the sector’s regulatory environment in African countries. It provides regulators a tool with which they may begin assessing current progress compared to their peers, as well as against international best practice. For other stakeholders, it may serve as a useful tool to better understand the context within which they are working or investing.
Publication date: 2018, May
Author: IEA / IRENA / UN / WB / WHO
Description: This joint tracking report provides the most comprehensive look available at the world’s progress towards global energy targets on access to electricity, clean cooking, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Prepared by the Custodian Agencies for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG7), the report gives the international community a global dashboard to register progress on three key targets. This joint tracking report provides the most comprehensive look available at the world’s progress towards global energy targets on access to electricity, clean cooking, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Prepared by the Custodian Agencies for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG7), the report gives the international community a global dashboard to register progress on three key targets.
Publication date: 2018, May
Author: SEI
Description: This paper identifies how centralised and decentralised approaches might support development of a secure low-carbon energy infrastructure in Southern Africa to meet increased demand and ensure universal energy access. In doing so, it sets out the energy challenges facing the SADC region, highlights the political economy challenges in achieving greater regional cooperation in the power sector, and presents opportunities for catalysing decentralised energy systems.
Publication date: 2018, May
Author: Patrícia Pereira da Silva, Pedro André Cerqueira, Wojolomi Ogbe
Description: 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.
Publication date: 2018, May
Author: Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
Description: At the recent African Utility Week in May 2018, Marius Oosthuizen, Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), the University of Pretoria, launched a Scenario Report based on a study specifically commissioned for the event. The report looks at the future of the power industry and Africa’s geopolitics, assisting energy leaders to predict the sector’s future and make effective decisions. Possible scenarios include utilities being described as lions of Africa, an elephant herd, hungry hyenas or white elephants.
Publication date: 2018, May
Author: UNCTAD
Description: UNCTAD - Energy Trade in Africa and Achievements of SDG7: An African Perspective.
Publication date: 2018, May
Author: ispy publishing
Description: As a promising sign of things to come, several African countries have already succeeded in making steps necessary to scale up renewables, such as adoption of support policies, investment promotion and regional collaboration.
Publication date: 2018, May
Author: Marcus Arcanjo
Description: This paper explores the energy transition in sub-Saharan Africa. Containing an enormous proportion of the world’s poorest people, coupled with limited economic opportunities and unfavourable conditions for investment, the region has seen access to clean energy severely hampered. The analysis will initially focus on the issues of energy insecurity that continue to plague the area in question, where a lack of investment – compounded by climate change, regional conflict, and population growth – has restricted the development of renewable energy infrastructure.
Publication date: 2018, May
Author: AfDB
Description: AfDB - Industrialize Africa.
Publication date: 2018, May
Author: UNECE
Description: In order to develop a PPP standard or standards, the project will assess different models of PPPs for variable on-grid renewable energy development pertaining to different project scales (small, medium and large), using the Project Team members’ experience in markets where PPPs are used to deliver renewable energy services.
Publication date: 2018, April
Author: FAO
Description: The report gives a state-of-the-art overview of policies, regulations and incentives for the sustainable use of solar-powered irrigation technologies (SPIS) around the world. SPIS offer a viable, low-tech energy solution for irrigated agriculture, providing a reliable source of energy in remote areas, contributing to rural electrification, reducing energy costs for irrigation and enabling low emission agriculture. Nevertheless, SPIS have a significant initial investment cost and require innovative financing models to overcome this barrier to adoption, especially for small-scale farmers.
Publication date: 2018, April
Author: GOGLA
Description: Our latest Global Off-Grid Solar Market Report presents sales and impact data covering July 1 to December 31, 2017, reflecting the performance of 67 affiliates working in this vibrant sector. This includes GOGLA members and companies that sell Lighting Global quality-verified products.
Publication date: 2018, April
Author: IRENA
Description: Renewable energy needs to be scaled up at least six times faster for the world to meet the decarbonisation and climate mitigation goals set out in the Paris Agreement, says Global Energy Transformation: A Roadmap to 2050.
Publication date: 2018, April
Author: ELSEVIER
Description: This paper determines a least cost electricity solution for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The power system discussed in this study is hourly resolved and based on 100% Renewable Energy (RE) technologies. Sub-Saharan Africa was subdivided into 16 sub-regions. Four different scenarios were considered involving the setup of a high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission grid.
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