An action agenda for Africaʹs electricity sector
Africa’s electricity sector has to undergo extensive modernization and expansion. We develop five policy recommendations to guide this challenge. First, introduction of a continent-wide risk-guarantee scheme coupled with targeted demand-side subsidies, to accelerate progress with electrification. Second, digitalization and open-access of energy-sector planning and management tools. Third, integration of local-content requirements into renewable energy policies, to capture energy-sector jobs. Fourth, strengthening and expansion of cooperative regional power pools through African-led donor-supported national partnerships. Fifth, expansion of investments in off-grid and interconnected clean-energy mini-grids.
DANIEL Puig;
MONER GERONA Magda;
KAMMEN Daniel;
MULUGETTA Yacob;
MARZOUK Atef;
JARRETT Maximilian;
HAILU Yohannes;
NAKIĆENOVIĆ Nebojša;
2021-12-16
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
JRC124308
0036-8075 (online),
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh1975,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC124308,
10.1126/science.abh1975 (online),
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