The costs of providing access to electricity in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and policy implications

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ny__9T6nd5" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ny__9T6nd5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111935" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111935</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The costs of providing access to electricity in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and policy implications

Original language description

Access to reliable energy is recognised as a key driver of human and economic development. Despite this, today only 45% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa has access to electricity. Sustainable Development Goal number 7 calls for ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for everyone. Yet, at the current rate of progress, less than 60% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa will have access to electricity by 2030. In view of the urgent need to accelerate the rate at which electricity access is provided, we developed a detailed least-cost optimisation model to identify the incremental costs of providing access for the group of 12 countries in the Southern African Power Pool. Our analysis shows that achieving universal access by 2030 in the region, would lead to an incremental generation cost of between 5.2 and 11.4 US$2018 billion, depending on the consumption of newly connected households. This corresponds to an increase of system generation costs by 4-8% and the levelized incremental cost of supply to the customer of 108-116 US$2018 per megawatt hour. This is lower than what a typical household pays for poor alternatives to electricity, such as kerosene for lighting, implying that policy makers should accelerate access.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50201 - Economic Theory

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Energy Policy

ISSN

0301-4215

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

148

Issue of the periodical within the volume

January

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

1-25

UT code for WoS article

000600551000020

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85096839157