Empowering Africa

Lorenzo Colantoni, Giuseppe Montesano
& Nicolò Sartori (eds)

Empowering Africa

Access to power in the African continent

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About the editors

Giuseppe Montesano is Deputy Director at Enel Foundation and has over 30 years of experience in the electricity sector including managerial positions in environment, policy and regulation.

Lorenzo Colantoni is Researcher at the Energy, Climate and Resources Programme at the Istituto Affari International (IAI). His research focuses include the Energy Union initiative, the geography of the energy transition and the analysis of the undergoing transformation of the Sub Saharan African energy framework.

Nicolò Sartori is Head of the Energy, Climate and Resources Programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and Adjunct Professor in “Energy Security and Natural Resources” in the Master in International Security Studies at the University of Trento.

About the book

Access to electricity is a key factor for the future of the African continent. Energy poverty and lack of universal access to electricity services are, in fact, remarkably hurting human progress in Africa. Today, sub-Saharan Africa hosts 14 percent of the world’s population but 60 percent of the world’s people without access to electricity: of the more than 1 billion people globally who had no access to electricity, around 600 million lived in the region. In these conditions, many African countries are unable to develop a solid economy or provide basic health and education services to their citizens. Starting from the analysis of present and future economic, demographic, social and technological trends, Empowering Africa offers an in-depth assessment of the current status and of the future prospects of access to electricity in the African continent. The volume describes the main developments in the Africa’s electricity sector, addressing the issue both from a regional and a thematic point of view, and attempting to define the key trends of a sector that will necessarily contribute to shape the continent’s political, social and economic dynamics for the next decades.

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Contents

Figures

Tables

Karim El Aynaoui, Carlo Papa and Nathalie Tocci

Foreword

Antonio Cammisecra

Preface

Nicolò Sartori and Lorenzo Colantoni

Chapter 1: Empowering Africa

Infographic “The electrification challenge in Africa”, by Enel Foundation

Helen Hoka, Nicolò Sartori and Lorenzo Colantoni

Chapter 2: Generating energy access

Simone Tagliapietra

Chapter 3: Financing access to power in Africa

Izael Da Silva

Chapter 4: Energy in Eastern Africa

Yemi Oke

Chapter 5: Power generation and energy access in Western Africa. Perspectives from WAPP countries

Agathe Maupin

Chapter 6: Power generation and energy access in Southern Africa: a general overview←5 | 6→

Silvia Pariente-David and Houda Ben Jannet Allal

Chapter 7: North Africa. An energy bridge between the African and European Continents

Richard Munang

Chapter 8: The institutional framework←6 | 7→

Figures

Figure 3.1: Sub-Saharan African utilities: comparison of power-supply costs with cash collected, 2014 (US$ per kWh billed)

Figure 3.2: International financial assistance to Africa’s power sector, by year (2005-15)

Figure 3.3: Cumulative financial assistance to Africa’s power sector, by player (2005-15)

Figure 3.4: Cumulative financial assistance to Africa’s power sector, by category (2005-15)

Figure 6.1: The Southern African regional power network

Figure 6.2a: SAPP installed generation capacity (MW)

Figure 6.2b: SAPP members’ share of current operating capacity (MW)

Figure 6.3: The regional energy institutional framework

Figure 6.4: The South African REI4P

Figure 7.1: Installed capacity and electricity generation in North Africa – 2015

Figure 7.2: Installed capacity by fuel in North Africa, and by country – 2015

Figure 7.3: Power generation by fuel in North Africa, and by country – 2015

Figure 7.4: Non-hydro renewable-based power generation trend in North Africa (TWh)

Figure 7.5: Non-hydro renewable-energy installed capacity in North Africa by country – 2015 (MW)←7 | 8→ ←8 | 9→

Tables

Table 3.1: Number of financing initiatives for Africa’s electrification by source

Table 7.1: Electricity access by country in North Africa, and comparison with Africa’s average