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costs, mainly arising from electricity losses’. Thus, affecting potential
energy trade in these regions, as canvased by both SADC and ECOWAS
energy agenda and the South African Power Plant (SAPP) and West
African Power Plant (WAPP), respectively. Both ECOWAS and SAPP
are over-reliant on inefficient and under capacitated power systems which
are predominantly caused by insufficient financing capacity.
This, in turn, prevents member States in both regions to invest in
new technologies and additional capacities. Donor agencies across both
regions, led by the World Bank historically have been encouraging for
total privatization of state-owned electricity companies. While the call
for this privatization move seems to have succeeded in Ivory Coast in the
Western region, privatization and energy market liberalization failed to
deliver in Senegal, Guinea, South Africa, Namibia, Democratic Republic
of Congo, Nigeria.
16 In most SADC and ECOWAS member States, the
electricity market remains vertically integrated and majorly subject to
state-ownership except Cape Verde and Cote d’Ivoire’s power sector that
is dominated by foreign private companies.
2.2.1 Resource Potential for Renewable and Fossil
Resource for Sub-Sahara Africa
There is virtually any country across the ECOWAS and SADC regions
that is without solar energy potential. The solar energy resources in these
regions are estimated to be above 10,000gw. The total technical solar
resource for photovoltaic alone has been estimated at 6500 Terrawatt
Hours (TWh) a year.
17 In terms of wind energy source, most of its coastal
countries in the region have one of the top spots wind conditions that
can contribute to redefining the energy transformation agenda in Africa.
The total wind power resource is about 109 Giga Watts.
18 The East
16 SG Banerjee, FA Moreno, JE Sinton, T Primiani, and J Seong, “Regulatory Indicators for
Sustainable Energy”: A Global Scorecard for Policy Makers (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2017).
17 ‘Africa Clean Energy Corridor: Analysis of Infrastructure for Renewable Power in
Eastern and Southern Africa’, International Renewable Energy Agency Report (Abu
Dhabi, 2015), www.irena.org/DocumentDownloads/Publications/IRENA_Africa_CEC_infrastru
cture_2015.pdf, accessed February 13, 2020.
18 IEA-International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2016 (Paris, 2016).
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costs, mainly arising from electricity losses’. Thus, affecting potential
energy trade in these regions, as canvased by both SADC and ECOWAS
energy agenda and the South African Power Plant (SAPP) and West
African Power Plant (WAPP), respectively. Both ECOWAS and SAPP
are over-reliant on inefficient and under capacitated power systems which
are predominantly caused by insufficient financing capacity.
This, in turn, prevents member States in both regions to invest in
new technologies and additional capacities. Donor agencies across both
regions, led by the World Bank historically have been encouraging for
total privatization of state-owned electricity companies. While the call
for this privatization move seems to have succeeded in Ivory Coast in the
Western region, privatization and energy market liberalization failed to
deliver in Senegal, Guinea, South Africa, Namibia, Democratic Republic
of Congo, Nigeria.
16 In most SADC and ECOWAS member States, the
electricity market remains vertically integrated and majorly subject to
state-ownership except Cape Verde and Cote d’Ivoire’s power sector that
is dominated by foreign private companies.
2.2.1 Resource Potential for Renewable and Fossil
Resource for Sub-Sahara Africa
There is virtually any country across the ECOWAS and SADC regions
that is without solar energy potential. The solar energy resources in these
regions are estimated to be above 10,000gw. The total technical solar
resource for photovoltaic alone has been estimated at 6500 Terrawatt
Hours (TWh) a year.
17 In terms of wind energy source, most of its coastal
countries in the region have one of the top spots wind conditions that
can contribute to redefining the energy transformation agenda in Africa.
The total wind power resource is about 109 Giga Watts.
18 The East
16 SG Banerjee, FA Moreno, JE Sinton, T Primiani, and J Seong, “Regulatory Indicators for
Sustainable Energy”: A Global Scorecard for Policy Makers (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2017).
17 ‘Africa Clean Energy Corridor: Analysis of Infrastructure for Renewable Power in
Eastern and Southern Africa’, International Renewable Energy Agency Report (Abu
Dhabi, 2015), www.irena.org/DocumentDownloads/Publications/IRENA_Africa_CEC_infrastru
cture_2015.pdf, accessed February 13, 2020.
18 IEA-International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2016 (Paris, 2016).