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Renewable Energy in Africa Status and Prospects

Renewable Energy in Africa Status and Prospects. AFREPREN/FWD. Overview. Background on energy supply and consumption in Africa AFREPREN/FWD’s assessment of RETs development in Africa How the penetration of RETs could be improved. Background on energy supply and consumption in Africa.

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Renewable Energy in Africa Status and Prospects

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  1. Renewable Energy in AfricaStatus and Prospects AFREPREN/FWD

  2. Overview • Background on energy supply and consumption in Africa • AFREPREN/FWD’s assessment of RETs development in Africa • How the penetration of RETs could be improved

  3. Background on energy supply and consumption in Africa

  4. Energy Supply in Africa • Africa produces less than 10% of the world’s energy supply * Biomass refers to combustible renewables (mainly fuelwood, charcoal and agro-residues) and waste Source: IEA, 2005

  5. Energy Consumption in Africa * Biomass refers to combustible renewables (mainly fuelwood, charcoal and agro-residues) and waste Source: IEA, 2005

  6. African Energy Sector – 3 distinct regions • North Africa – oil and gas sub-region • South Africa – coal sub-region • Sub-Saharan Africa – biomass region

  7. Population With No Electricity (Millions) A few successes (Ghana, Mauritius, S. Africa, Zimbabwe)

  8. Status of Renewables in Africa • Africa is endowed with substantial renewable energy resources

  9. AFREPREN/FWD’s assessment of RETs development in Africa

  10. Emphasis on Conventional Energy Options • Higher proportion of funding allocated to conventional energy sector - large-scale hydro and petroleum • Ethiopia: Virtually entire energy budget allocated to conventional large scale investments • Smaller scale renewables largely left out (even dominant biomass is ignored) • Results – contributes to low levels of access to modern energy which, in turn, contribute to increased poverty

  11. Energy Pyramid Need for Better Balance

  12. Why Promote Renewables in Africa? Implications for the Poor • Significant energy resource potential exists • Conventional energy supply unreliable and not reaching the poor • Enhance competitiveness of agro-industries • Job creation potential

  13. Estimated Job Creation Potential

  14. Energy as % of Cost of Production

  15. How Can Penetration of Renewable Energy in Africa be Improved?

  16. How Can Penetration of RE be Improved? • Rationale for promoting renewables not well argued • Climate change and environmental concerns not applicable in Africa • Solid rationale for promoting renewables : • Enhancing modern energy access to the poor • Availability of plentiful and cost-competitive renewables (hydro & geothermal) • Ability to provide cost-competitive energy services to remote rural settlements • Significant job and enterprise creation potential • Increased attention towards non-electrical RETs

  17. Non-electrical Options for Poverty Alleviation • Low cost but more efficient biomass-based combustion • Improved cookstoves (household and institutional) • Efficient charcoal kilns, brick making kilns • fish smokers, tea dryers and wood dryers • Pico and micro hydro for shaft power • Can be used to process agricultural produce, increase its value and pump water for irrigation • Low cost efficient tools and equipment using human or animal energy • Increase the agricultural productivity of the rural poor • E.g Treadle pumps for small-scale irrigation

  18. Non-electrical Options • Solar dryers • Can lower post-harvest losses and enable the rural farmers market their produce when prices are higher • Solar water pasteurizers • Provide clean potable water and reduce water borne diseases, which translates to increased availability of labor and thus increases agricultural output • Solar water heaters • Significant reduction in electricity load for heating water, and significant potential for local manufacture and assembly

  19. Case Study: Treadle Irrigation Pump • Simple, low-cost pumping technologies for irrigation and water supply • Use in irrigation increases incomes of rural farmers by over ten-fold • 45,000 pumps in use by poor farmers in Kenya and Tanzania • 29,000 new waged jobs created • 70% of pumps managed by women • 4 manufacturers in the region, with over 200 retailers selling pumps in Kenya, Tanzania and Mali

  20. Case Study: Windpump for Water Supply in Remote Rural Areas

  21. Case Study: Improved Charcoal Kenya Ceramic Jiko • One of the most successful stove projects in Africa • Made of metal cladding with a wide base and a ceramic liner (safer to use - cooler on the outside) • In use in about 100% of urban households in Kenya (16% of rural homes) • 2.6 million stoves in use in Kenya alone (cumulative production now over 15 million) • Fully self-sustaining using locally produced materials and skills – generated jobs & new enterprises • Reduces charcoal consumption by 30-50%

  22. Case Study: Improved Charcoal Kenya Ceramic Jiko • KCJ in use in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia, Zambia, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi & Senegal • Being introduced in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Ghana and Madagascar

  23. Thank You Contacts AFREPREN/FWD Elgeyo Marakwet Close, Kilimani P. O. Box 30979, 00100 GPO Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 20 3866032/3871467 Fax: +254 20 3861464/3876470/3740524 E-mail: afrepren@africaonline.co.ke Website: www.afrepren.org

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