A new report has shown
that sub-Saharan Africa needs to spend $6 billion yearly before 2040 for the continent to
have a sustainable energy supply. This is one of the outcomes of the
International Energy Agency’s 2019 Energy Outlook for Africa.
The analysis details energy mix of 11
countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, namely Nigeria, Angola, South Africa,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Côte d’Ivoire,
Mozambique, and Senegal. The IEA’s analysis said about 600-million Africans
have no access to electricity, although this has since 2013 improved.
The report believes that emphasis on
clean energy technologies, solar PV could be the game changers for the
sub-region to become could become the continent’s largest electricity source in
terms of installed capacity by 2040.
In the earlier report,
analysis indicates that the hope of Nigerians and businesses to have stable electricity
is being dashed with the raging blame game among the electricity generation
and distribution companies. The Association of Nigerian Electricity
Distributors (ANED) kicks against some parts of the Federal Government’s plan
for rejuvenating the dwindling sector. In the approach to the review,
information has it that the government is ready to take over some distribution
facilities. This position does not augur well for the DISCOs.
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