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Publication date: 2017, July
Author: JICA
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Publication date: 2017
Author: Aalborg University
Description: In this study, a both environmentally and economically sustainable option is proposed and the synergies between the actors in the area are analysed in order to determine the possible options that could be aligned with the ambitious renewable energy transition the country proposed until 2030.
Publication date: 2016, October
Author: ECREEE
Description: Energy policy:
Publication date: 2016, May
Author: DGE
Description: Luxembourg has a along history of successful Development Cooperation with Cabo Verde (partner country since 1993). The 3rd ICP (Indicative Cooperation Program) between the 2 countries, which initiated in 2011, placed particular attention in competence development to serve for RE and EE sector with construction of CERMI. The support to RE sector development in Cabo Verde came with the 4th ICP, where Renewable Energy is the 3rd axis of intervention.
Publication date: 2016
Author: UNIDO / ECREEE
Description: The Cape Verde’s energy supplies come from four main sources – petroleum products, butane gas, firewood and wind. The use of firewood for cooking especially in the rural areas is deeming to be fuelling the evident deforestation in the country, being the most affected the islands that are traditionally more rural (S. Antão, S. Vicente, S. Nicolau, Santiago, Fogo e Brava).
Publication date: 2015, October
Author: DGE
Description: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in CABO VERDE
Publication date: 2015, October
Author: ECREEE / UNICV
Description: The islands of Cape Verde have excellent renewable energy potentials. The average solar radiation is estimated to be 5.71 kWh/m2/day and average wind speed topples 7 m/s in innumerous sites around the archipelago, however, the country is plagued with scarce water resource due to little and erratic rain fall for many years now, thus, desalination stands out as the viable and handy alternative for the water supply to the population.
Publication date: 2015, July
Author: UNDP / GEF
Description: Cabo Verde is a small island country located in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 570 kilometres off the coast of West Africa.
Publication date: 2015, April
Author: SE4ALL
Description: The sustainable energy initiative for all (the SE4ALL acronym in English of Sustainable Energy for All) is a partnership between Governments, the private sector and civil society.
Publication date: 2015, February
Author: ELSEVIER
Description: The electricity production in S. Vicente is based on fossil fuel and wind power and, although there are significant wind resources, they are not fully used because of its intermittent nature.
Publication date: 2014, September
Author: ARE
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Publication date: 2014, March
Author: AfDB
Description: This report aims to propose a Bank Group strategy for Cabo Verde, a Middle-Income Country (MIC) and also a Small Island Developing State (SIDS), for the period 2014-2018. Cabo Verde’s successful socio-economic development during the last decade is widely recognized.
Publication date: 2013, December
Author: UPC
Description: Even though Cape Verde has high wind and solar energy resources, the conventional strategy for increasing access to electricity in isolated rural areas is by centralized microgrids with diesel generators. In this study, the design of 2 off-grid electrification projects based on hybrid windphotovoltaic systems in Cape Verde is developed and analyzed.
Publication date: 2013, October
Author: Abraao Lopes
Description: Cape Verde’s progress in socioeconomic development is widely recognized:
Publication date: 2012, February
Author: ARE
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Publication date: 2012
Author: AfDB
Description: Cape Verde, a small island state, is a lower middle-income country (MIC) under the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) credit policy.
Publication date: 2011, July
Author: AfDB
Description: The project will concern 492 000 inhabitants (or 94% of the total population) of Cape Verde living on six of its islands. It will contribute to increasing the overall rate of access to electricity from 88% in 2010 to 98% by 2018, and will also facilitate the electrification of some fifty localities in rural areas. The project’s direct beneficiaries will be the households, craftsmen, businesses, government services and SMEs/SMIs of the six islands.
Publication date: 2011, June
Author: WB
Description: Cape Verde stands out in West Africa as a country whose economic geography poses major and unique challenges for infrastructure development. Its small population of half a million people is spread across a nine-island archipelago. The islands need complementary infrastructure in terms of roads, water, transport, ports, power, and ICT.
Publication date: 2011
Author: ECREEE
Description: Cape Verde has very limited natural resources and suffers from poor rainfall and limited fresh water. Only 4 of the 10 main islands (Santiago, Santo Antão, Fogo, and Brava) can support agricultural production, and over 90% of all food consumed in Cape Verde is imported while most of the water used in the country comes from desalination plants on the islands. Mineral resources include salt and pozzolana (a volcanic rock used in cement production).
Publication date: 2011
Author: MTIE
Description: Studies have confirmed the prospect of achieving 50% penetration of Renewable Energy in electricity production until 2020 in a both technical and economical feasible approach, as long as a set of requirements is complied in terms of financing and infrastructures development.
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