Africa - Underpowered : the state of the power sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

By A. Eberhard, Vivien Foster, Cecilia M. Briceño-Garmendia, Fatimata Ouédraogo, D. Camos, Maria Shkaratan. 2008

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Demise of the standard model for power sector reform and the emergence of hybrid power markets (2008, background): “Indeed, there is already significant evidence that investment in much needed new capacity is lagging and that these delays are in part due to the new challenges of hybrid markets neither being recognized nor tackled explicitly (Eberhard et al., 2008).”
Powering Africa: Meeting the financing and reform challenges (2012, background): “In those countries that were part of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD) study (managed by the World Bank) and where we were able to make our own calculations (about 50 percent of the total countries in Sub-Saharan Africa) the costs ranged from less than 1 percent of GDP in countries”
Public Investment, Growth, and Debt Sustainability: Putting Together the Pieces (2012, background): “But because of low collection rates, revenues cover only half of recurrent costs, as discussed by Briceño-Garmendia et al. (2008) and Eberhard et al. (2008).”
Sustainable energy in Africa: A comprehensive data and policies review (2014, background): “Therefore, we report in [53–61,64–67,126–131] selected literature related to power sector analysis, while in the following we introduce the African power pools focusing on power installed capacity and reliability of the supply.”
What is the irrigation potential for Africa? A combined biophysical and socioeconomic approach (2011, methodology): “…for existing and planned dams, including location, we used datasets from the World Bank AICD (Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic) study (Eberhard et al. 2008, Rosnes and Vennemo 2008) as well as the FAO African dams database (FAO 2006); we also consulted Google Earth and did our own…”
Power outages and economic growth in Africa (2013, methodology): “Power problems could be a culprit, as it is widely acknowledged that Sub-Saharan Africa is in the midst of a power crisis (Eberhard et al., 2008; UN 2007).2 Outages are not just frequent and long but also erratic.”