Prospects for the African Power Sector abstract
The paper makes a series of recommendations including the development of clear and stable policy frameworks that enable the private sector to invest with confidence; use of local manufacturing to reduce costs and create employment; and the inclusion of renewables in economic development strategies.
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Africa has vast untapped renewable energy resources that can provide electricity for all at an affordable cost. While the deployment of renewables already shows both established and emerging areas of success, there are barriers to implementation, many of them project-specific, which African energy ministers can address.
These are the broad conclusions of the Prospects for the African Power Sector – a recently published working paper in IRENA’s Scenarios and Strategies series. It notes that Africa can benefit from the recent global progress and cost reductions in renewable power generation technologies, to leapfrog the development path taken by industrialised countries and move directly to a renewable-based system.
The paper makes a series of recommendations including the development of clear and stable policy frameworks that enable the private sector to invest with confidence; use of local manufacturing to reduce costs and create employment; and the inclusion of renewables in economic development strategies.
