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Publication date: 2015
Author: ERC - Energy Research Centre
Description: Despite a contuining electricity crisis from its coal-fired sources, in recent years South Africa has become one of the leading destinations for renewable energy investment. This is thanks to the launch of its renewable energy independent power producers’ programme for which an estimated $14 billion/R168 billion has been committed thus far and approximately 4 GW of utility-scale renewable energy capacity approved.
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Publication date: 2015
Author: Baker & McKenzie
Description: The Rise of Corporate PPAs - A New Driver for Renewables outlines the economic and environmental advantages of corporate renewable PPAs and takes a closer look at some of the biggest deals recently completed by corporates such as Amazon and The Dow Chemical Company. It also examines both standard and synthetic PPA structures.The Rise of Corporate PPAs - A New Driver for Renewables outlines the economic and environmental advantages of corporate renewable PPAs and takes a closer look at some of the biggest deals recently completed by corporates such as Amazon and The Dow Chemical Company. It also examines both standard and synthetic PPA structures.With more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies now having targets relating to renewable energy procurement, energy efficiency or cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it’s clear there is a real appetite for going green within the business world. And corporate renewable PPAs are set to be one of the most popular methods for meeting these targets.
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Publication date: 2015
Author: UNDP
Description: To understand the potential for impact investment in Africa, this ‘Impact Investment in Africa: Trends, Constraints and Opportunities’ report (herein after referred to as “this report”), reviews the current overall state of impact investing in Africa, highlighting key challenges to the sector and proposes strategies to increase the flows and quality of impact investment on the continent, especially those that are African led and mobilized.
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Publication date: 2015
Author: International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
Description: This paper analyses the performance of two cases of renewable energy (RE) auction/tender systems in an effort to contribute to the evaluation of and best practice in RE auction/tender systems.
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Publication date: 2015
Author: Several
Description: This second edition of the global survey documents important continued progress during the 2014 calendar year across these nations, which can be regarded as a proxy for emerging market countries more broadly. Once again, Climatescope focused its attention on the newest low-carbon emitting clean energy technologies – wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, small hydro and biofuel technologies, but not large hydro and nuclear power.
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Publication date: 2014, September
Author: IFC / GSMA
Description: This report brings an understanding of the current state of mobile and energy infrastructure in Africa and identifies possible alternatives for cost-effectively powering mobile networks in Africa. The report also looks at the changing industry structure as well as regulations and their impact on scaling the adoption of green energy in powering telecoms infrastructure and therefore, improving access to mobile communications across the continent. The geographical scope of this report is limited to Africa and majorly Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Publication date: 2014, June
Author: Sustainable Energy for All
Description: Summary by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Sustainable Energy for All of the first annual SE4All Forum and the Third Meeting of the SE4All Advisory Board.
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Publication date: 2014, June
Author: Power for All
Description: The white paper "Power for All - The Energy Access Imperative" is a call to a different action for the policymakers, stakeholders, entrepreneurs and customers engaged in driving universal energy access for the billions of people without reliable power. Power for All is an initiative of d.light, a for-profit social enterprise that manufactures and distributes solar lighting and power products to the developing world.
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Publication date: 2014
Author: WB
Description: This study examines the economic conditions facing policy makers, planners, and commercial actors with a stake in gas-to-power development in Sub-Saharan Africa. It looks at the upstream, midstream, and downstream segments of the gas value chain to identify where the economics align in favor of gas-to-power development and where they do not.
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Publication date: 2014
Author: IEA - International Energy Agency
Description: The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Africa Energy Outlook – a Special Report in the 2014 World Energy Outlook series – offers a most comprehensive analytical study of energy in Africa, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa, the epicentre of the global challenge to overcome energy poverty.
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Publication date: 2014
Author: Chalmers University
Description: The study examines cost recovery problems in off-grid electrification projects in sub-Saharan Africa. The long term success of isolated microgrid projects is analysed with a System Dynamics approach to consider socio-technical and economic factors.
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Publication date: 2013, May
Author: JRC
Description: This report once again deals with renewable energies in Africa providing a deeper analysis of some of the issues involved in the actual exploitability of renewable energies such as, for example, technological evolution of production devices, changes in fossil fuels prices or a more detailed view of the complexity of bioenergy resources in the African context.
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Publication date: 2013, March
Author: WB
Description: As the world demand for energy continues to grow, a big question is where will all the energy come from and what will the price tag be. With such enormous sums needed, public-private partnerships (PPPs) could play a big role. But the financial crisis has raised worries about funding, and much is still not known about how best to attract PPPs. This report reviews the evidence to date with sectoral reforms and considers different approaches in varying circumstances to help outline the potential role of the private and public sector.
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Publication date: 2013
Author: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Description: This report summarizes, in non-technical language, the results of recent UNsponsored studies to assess global trends in the deployment of renewable energy technologies and the effectiveness of related government policies, including detailed analyses of Brazil and South Africa, and draws out broad lessons on assessing such policies. It aims to provide guidance to policymakers in other countries seeking to better understand the potential for renewables to play a bigger role in meeting their energy needs and how to go about assessing the effectiveness of policies to exploit that potential.
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Publication date: 2013
Author: IRENA / DBFZ
Description: This report focuses on bioenergy in Africa, as this form of renewable energy represents almost 50% of the total primary energy supply (TPES) for the African continent (International Energy Agency (IEA), 2009a), and more than 60% of the Sub-Saharan TPES. Bioenergy is a strategic asset for Africa’s energy future and needs to be assessed in a transparent manner.
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Publication date: 2012, August
Author: SADC
Description: This Energy Sector Plan (ESP) is part of the SADC Regional Infrastructure Development Master Plan (RIDMP) whose aim is to define regional infrastructure requirements and conditions to facilitate the realisation of key infrastructure in the in the energy, water, transport, tourism, meteorology and telecommunications sectors by 2027. Such infrastructure would enable the SADC region to attain regional integration, economic growth and poverty eradication.
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Publication date: 2012
Author: IRENA
Description: Africa faces a unique opportunity as nearly two-thirds of the additional capacity needed in 2030 has yet to be built. The continent 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.
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Publication date: 2012, October
Author: IIASA
Description: The simplest defi nition of universal access to modern energy is the physical availability of electricity and modern energy carriers and improved end-use devices such as cook stoves at affordable prices for all. A target of energy access for all by 2030, set by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC, 2010 ), recommends access to be provided in accordance with this basic defi nition so as to enhance services such as lighting, cooking, heating, and motive power for populations in developing countries.
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Publication date: 2011, July
Author: UNECA
Description: This paper is designed to be a key early output of the PPP-related activities of GPAD’s 2010-2011 Work Programme, which in turn is part of a broader mandate of the UNECA to promote private sector and enterprise development in Africa. As a non-recurrent publication, this paper will serve as the main background document for a workshop entitled “Public-Private Partnerships in Public Service Delivery: Best Practices and Emerging Trends” that will be held in Addis Ababa at the end of June 2011.
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Publication date: 2011
Author: JRC
Description: This report summarizes current knowledge at the Joint Research Centre regarding Renewable Energy in Africa. It assesses current energy consumption and the share of renewables in African states, and attempts to estimate the technical potential of available resources of solar, wind, biomass and hydropower which could be economically used to provide energy for the increasing population.
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