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Publication date: 2017
Author: Clean Energy Pipeline
Description: Clean Energy Pipeline has spoken to some of the world’s leading renewable energy investment firms and developers, which have demonstrated their respective abilities to accrue substantial returns while applying a risk-averse approach to Africa’s exciting and varied markets.
Publication date: 2017
Author: Ijeoma Onyeji-Nwogu
Description: In this chapter we briefly revisit some of the key issues to consider for successful integration of renewable energy in Africa: Section 2 gives an overview of the contrast between energy poverty and resource abundance in Africa; Section 3 puts Africa in the context of the global energy shift toward renewables; Section 4 discusses some of the key aspects going forward; and Section 5 concludes.
Publication date: 2017, January
Author: JCRA
Description: JCRA, in collaboration with the Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr), is launching a series of whitepapers focused on infrastructure in its various forms throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Over recent decades, energy use across the world has increased considerably. From 1990 to 2015, total global energy consumption rose by 62%, driven mainly by higher energy consumption in emerging markets such as Africa and the Middle East. Higher energy consumption in Asia-Pacific has also been driven by fast-growing industrialising nations such as China, where total energy consumption grew 241% from 1995 to 2015.
Publication date: 2017
Author: Sustainable Energy for All
Description: The report provides a pathway to elevate financing support for enterprises delivering decentralized renewable energy and clean cooking fuels and technologies to vulnerable populations in Asia and Africa. It suggests recommendations for government leaders, donors, development finance players and energy access enterprises that all play critical roles in accelerating access to electricity and clean cooking - two cornerstone priorities of the globally agreed Sustainable Development Goals.
Publication date: 2017
Author: Deloitte
Description: This report is a summary of the consolidated point of view of the Deloitte power leaders across Africa, backed by research.
Publication date: 2017, January
Author: AfDB
Description: This paper, part the Green Mini-Grid Market Development Programme (GMG MDP) document series, analyses the financing issues involved with developing green mini-grids for rural electrification. These are mini-grids powered by renewable energy resources – solar radiation, wind, hydropower or biomass – either exclusively or in combination with diesel generation.
Publication date: 2017
Author: SE4All
Description: This new report, Missing the Mark: Gaps and Lags in Disbursement of Development Finance for Energy Access, provides useful insights about the effectiveness of finance commitments for energy access projects in selected developing countries. The findings are focused on 20 selected ‘high-impact’ countries predominantly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, which have significant energy access gaps and can least afford delays in putting finance to work for actual on-the-ground projects.
Publication date: 2017
Author: Acumen
Description: Our intent with this report is to share our impact and our insights from our journey investing in solutions to end energy poverty, and to inspire more people to recognize that, for the first time in history, bringing affordable electricity to every human on earth is within our collective reach.
Publication date: 2017
Author: Sustainable Energy for All
Description: This new report, Understanding the Landscape: Tracking Finance for Electricity and Clean Cooking Access in High-Impact Countries, provides a pathway to refine and improve strategies to accelerate progress in delivering universal energy access.
Publication date: 2017
Author: IRENA
Description: Sustainable energy solutions, including renewable energy, have sometimes suered from the perception that they come with too many trade-os, at the expense of overall socio-economic development. Undoubtedly, as governments around the world strive to put the 2015 Paris climate agreement into practice, they need to balance the urgency of the energy transition against numerous other considerations that aect people’s welfare.
Publication date: 2017, January
Author: JCRA
Description: JCRA, in collaboration with the Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr), is launching a series of whitepapers focused on infrastructure in its various forms throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
The first paper in the series shines a spotlight on South Africa and its efforts to significantly boost energy infrastructure and power production through its Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP).
Publication date: 2017, January
Author: GreenCape
Description: This report provides potential investors and businesses in the utility-scale RE space with a greater understanding of market opportunities in South Africa.
Publication date: 2017
Author: Hunton & Williams
Description: Offtakers continue to procure capacity through direct negotiations in spite of clear evidence that procuring IPPs through competitive tenders tends to materially reduce the levelized cost of electricity generated by IPPs.
Publication date: 2017
Author: DTU
Description: Energy for Sustainable Development in Africa: Successes, Challenges and the way forward.
Publication date: 2017
Author: ESMAP / IFC
Description: Energy storage is a crucial tool for enabling the effective integration of renewable energy and unlocking the benefits of local generation and a clean, resilient energy supply. The technology continues to prove its value to grid operators around the world who must manage the variable generation of solar and wind energy. However, the development of advanced energy storage systems (ESS) has been highly concentrated in select markets, primarily in regions with highly developed economies. Despite rapidly falling costs, ESSs remain expensive and the significant upfront investment required is difficult to overcome without government support and/or low-cost financing.
Publication date: 2017
Author: ICA
Description: The completion of Infrastructure Financing Trends in Africa – 2016 marks another milestone for the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) in its consistent reporting of the mobilisation of financial resources to facilitate the development of the continent’s transport, water and sanitation, energy and ICT sectors. This report identifies key trends and looks to explain the processes and dynamics driving and restraining them and highlights emerging trends.
Publication date: 2017
Author: Business Sweden
Description: Exploring Private Investment in Power Generation: Capturing the Opportunities in Independent Power Projects in Eastern Africa.
Publication date: 2017, January
Author: OXFAM, RAEL
Description: This pair of linked reports explores the scientific, technical, economic, and policy opportunities for renewable energy technologies to address Africa’s electricity generation shortfall and tackle the challenge of energy poverty. They identify issues of underinvestment in energy resources at household, national, and regional levels, and highlight the importance of state policy and institutions in meeting the energy challenge.
Publication date: 2017
Author: responsAbility
Description: The 2017/2018 issue of responsAbility’s annual publication looks at the fascinating world of development investments, summarising key trends and highlighting successful case studies.
Publication date: 2017
Author: Willis Towers Watson
Description: Welcome to our Power and Renewable Energy Market Review for 2018. During the last 12 months, these industries continue to operate in a climate of change; as Selwyn Parker of Petroleum Economist notes in the leading article of the Review, the world has embarked on “an epochal transition” away from hydrocarbon-fuelled economic growth.
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