Africa's power infrastructure : investment, integration, efficiency /

Africa's power infrastructure : investment, integration, efficiency / / Anton Eberhard ... [et al.].

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Superior document:Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Infrastructure
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ProQuest (Firm)
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Eberhard, Anton A.
ProQuest (Firm)
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Infrastructure.
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Physical Description:xxix, 317 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Africa unplugged
  • The region's underdeveloped energy resources
  • The lag in installed generation capacity
  • Stagnant and inequitable access to electricity services
  • Unreliable electricity supply
  • The prevalence of back-up generators
  • Increasing use of leased emergency power
  • A power crisis exacerbated by drought, conflict, and high oil prices
  • High power costs that generally do not cover costs
  • Deficient power infrastructure constrains social and economic development
  • The promise of regional power trade
  • Uneven distribution and poor economies of scale
  • Despite power pools, low regional power trade
  • The potential benefits of expanded regional power trading
  • What regional patterns of trade would emerge?
  • Water resources management and hydropower development
  • Who gains most from power trade?
  • How will less hydropower development influence trade flows?
  • What are the environmental impacts of trading power?
  • Technology choices and the clean development mechanism
  • How might climate change affect power investment patterns?
  • Meeting the challenges of regional integration of infrastructure
  • Building a political consensus
  • Strengthening regional institutions
  • Setting priorities for regional infrastructure
  • Facilitating project preparation and cross-border finance
  • Developing regional regulatory frameworks
  • Investment requirements
  • Modeling investment needs
  • Estimating supply needs
  • Overall cost requirements
  • The sapp
  • Constant access rates under trade expansion
  • Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average
  • National targets for electricity access
  • The EAPP/Nile Basin
  • Constant access rates under trade expansion
  • Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average
  • National targets for electricity access
  • WAPP
  • Constant access rates under trade expansion
  • Regional target rate : electricity access of 54 percent on average
  • National targets for electricity access
  • CAPP
  • Constant access rates under trade expansion
  • Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 44 percent on average
  • National targets for electricity access
  • Strengthening sector reform and planning
  • Power sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Private management contracts : winning the battle, losing the war
  • Sector reform, sector performance
  • The search for effective hybrid markets
  • Regulatory institutions may need to be redesigned
  • The challenges of independent regulation
  • Regulation by contract
  • Outsourcing regulatory functions
  • Toward better regulatory systems
  • A model to fit the context
  • Widening connectivity and reducing inequality
  • Low electricity connection rates
  • Mixed progress, despite many agencies and funds
  • Inequitable access to electricity
  • Affordability of electricity : subsidizing the well off
  • Policy challenges for accelerating service expansion
  • Don't forget the demand side of the equation
  • Take a hard-headed look at affordability
  • Target subsidies to promote service expansion
  • Systematic planning needed for periurban and rural electrification
  • Recommitting to the reform of state-owned enterprises
  • Hidden costs in underperforming state-owned enterprises
  • Driving down operational inefficiencies and hidden costs
  • Effect of better governance on performance of state-owned utilities
  • Making state-owned enterprises more effective
  • Defined roles and responsibilities
  • Altering the political economy around the utility
  • Practical tools for improving the performance of state-owned utilities
  • Closing Africa's power funding gap
  • Existing spending in the power sector
  • How much more can be done within the existing resource envelope?
  • Increasing cost recovery
  • On budget spending : raising capital budget execution
  • Improving utility performance
  • Savings from efficiency-oriented reforms
  • Annual funding gap
  • How much additional finance can be raised?
  • Little scope for raising more domestic finance
  • Official development assistance : sustaining the scale-up
  • Non-OECD financiers will growth continue?
  • Private investors : over the hill
  • Local capital markets : a possibility in the medium term
  • Bank lending
  • Equity
  • Corporate bonds
  • The most promising ways to increase funds
  • What else can be done?
  • Taking more time
  • Lowering costs through regional integration
  • The way forward.

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