eBook

Africa's power infrastructure : investment, integration, efficiency

World Bank, Eberhard, Anton A.

2011

Overview

This study is a product of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world's knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. The AICD provides a baseline against which future improvements in infrastructure services can be measured, making it possible to monitor the results achieved from donor support. It also offers a more solid empirical foundation for prioritizing investments and designing policy reforms in the infrastructure sectors in Africa. The book draws upon a number of background papers that were prepared by World Bank staff and consultants, under the auspices of the AICD. The main findings were synthesized in a flagship report titled Africa's infrastructure: A time for transformation, published in November 2009. Meant for policy makers, that report necessarily focused on the high-level conclusions. It attracted widespread media coverage feeding directly into discussions at the 2009 African union commission heads of state summit on infrastructure.

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank
• Subject: ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY / Africa / Africa, Sub-Saharan / ALUMINUM / ANNUAL CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS / APPROACH / AVAILABILITY / AVERAGE TARIFF / BACKUP POWER / BLACKOUTS / BLOCK TARIFF / BORDER INFRASTRUCTURE / BORDER TRADE / BORDER TRANSMISSION / CAPACITY EXPANSION / CAPITAL COSTS / CAPITAL EXPENDITURES / CAPITAL INVESTMENT / CAPITAL INVESTMENTS / Capital investments -- Africa, Sub-Saharan / CAR / CARBON / CARBON DIOXIDE / CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS / CERTIFIED EMISSION REDUCTION / CLIMATE CHANGE / COAL / COAL RESERVES / COLORS / COMPENSATION MECHANISMS / CONCESSIONS / CONSUMPTION OF ELECTRICITY / COST OF POWER / COST RECOVERY / COSTS OF POWER / DAMS / DEMAND FOR POWER / DIESEL / DIESEL GENERATORS / DIESEL POWER / DISTRIBUTION NETWORK / DOMESTIC ENERGY / DOMESTIC ENERGY RESOURCES / DOMINANT FUEL / DRIVING / DROUGHT / ECONOMIC COSTS / ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / ECONOMIC GROWTH / ECONOMIC INTEGRATION / ECONOMIES OF SCALE / ELECTRIC POWER / Electric power plants / ELECTRICAL POWER / Electricity / ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION / ELECTRICITY DEMAND / ELECTRICITY GENERATION / ELECTRICITY PRICES / ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION / ELECTRICITY SECTOR / ELECTRICITY SERVICES / ELECTRICITY SUPPLY / ELECTRICITY TARIFF / EMISSION / EMISSION REDUCTION CREDIT / EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS / EMISSIONS SAVINGS / Energy / ENERGY POLICY / Energy policy -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan / ENERGY RESOURCES / ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS / ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS / EXCESS CAPACITY / FARES / FOSSIL / FOSSIL FUELS / FUEL / FUEL OIL / FUEL PRICES / FUELS / GAS / GAS PRODUCTION / GAS RESOURCES / GASOLINE / GENERATING CAPACITY / GENERATION / GENERATION CAPACITY / GENERATION COSTS / GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY / GEOTHERMAL PLANTS / GEOTHERMAL POWER / GLOBAL CARBON DIOXIDE / GLOBAL CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS / GOVERNMENT POLICY / GREENHOUSE / GREENHOUSE GAS / GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS / GREENHOUSE GASES / GRID POWER / GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT / GROWTH RATES / HEAT / HEAT PRODUCTION / HEAVY FUEL OIL / HOUSEHOLD BUDGETS / HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION / HYDROELECTRIC PLANTS / HYDROPOWER / HYDROPOWER GENERATION / INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS / INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT / INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING / INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING / INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT / INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES / INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING / INTERNATIONAL ENERGY / Investment / INVESTMENT CLIMATE / INVESTMENT COSTS / INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS / KEROSENE / KILOWATT HOUR / LEASE CONTRACTS / LOAD SHEDDING / LOWER TARIFFS / MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS / MARGINAL COST OF ELECTRICITY / MARGINAL COSTS / METHANE / NATURAL GAS / NUCLEAR POWER / NUCLEAR POWER PLANT / O&M / OIL / OIL PRICES / OIL PRODUCTION / OIL RESERVES / PERFORMANCE INDICATORS / PETROLEUM / POWER / POWER CAPACITY / POWER CONSUMPTION / POWER CORPORATION / POWER COSTS / POWER CRISIS / POWER DEMAND / POWER DEVELOPMENT / POWER GENERATION / POWER GENERATION CAPACITY / POWER GRID / POWER MARKETS / POWER OUTAGES / POWER PLANTS / POWER POOLS / POWER PRICES / POWER PRODUCTION / POWER PROJECT / POWER PROJECTS / POWER SECTOR / POWER SECTOR PLANNING / POWER SECTOR REFORM / POWER SHORTAGES / POWER STATIONS / POWER SUPPLIES / POWER SUPPLY / POWER SYSTEM / POWER SYSTEMS / POWER TRADE / POWER TRADING / PREPAYMENT / PRICE DIFFERENTIAL / PRICE OF OIL / PRICE OF POWER / PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION / PROFIT MARGIN / PROPANE / PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE / PUBLIC PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE / REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS / REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE / RENEWABLE ENERGY / RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES / RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS / REVENUE COLLECTION / ROUTES / RURAL ELECTRIFICATION / Rural electrification -- Government policy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan / SANITATION / SERVICE EXPANSION / SHIPPING CONTAINERS / Social aspects / Sub-Saharan Africa / SURPLUS POWER / TARIFF STRUCTURES / THERMAL CAPACITY / THERMAL ENERGY / THERMAL POWER / THERMAL POWER PLANTS / TIN / TOTAL EMISSIONS / TRADING PATTERNS / TRANSMISSION CAPACITY / TRANSMISSION GRID / TRANSMISSION SYSTEM / TRANSPORT / TRANSPORT POLICY / TRANSPORTATION / URANIUM / UTILITIES / UTILITY BILL / UTILITY LOAD / VEHICLE / VOLTAGE / WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT / WEATHER PATTERNS / WIND
• ISBN: 0821384554, 9780821384558, 0821386522, 9780821386521