Case Study: Solar Power in Africa

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Case Study Solar Power in Africa

• Eskom is South Africa's wholly state-owned
  electricity utility(Billion (US), invested).
• It has 24 power stations
• Nominal Capacity of 40.585 megawatts
• One of the lowest cost producers of electricity
  in the world.
• 3 million customers via 306 thousand km of
  transmission and distribution lines.

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Decreasing Costs
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Results Benefits

• Electrification of approximately 1,000 homes/day
• Electricity leads to job creation, and a rise in
  disposable income in a community.
• Electrification of schools/houses has lead to
  increased education and productivity levels
• Reduction in harvesting/burning of biomass.
• decrease in respiratory disease ,pollutants,
  improved quality of life.

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Case Study Small Hydro in India

• Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources
  (MNES)
• 420 small hydro power projects up to 25 MW
• Over 187 projects in this range are under
  construction.
• An estimated potential of about 15,000 MW of
  small hydro power projects

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Incentives

• MNES is giving incentives for detailed survey
  and investigation, detailed project report
  preparation
• Interest subsidy for commercial projects
• Capital subsidy for SHP projects in the
  North-Eastern region.
• Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency
  (IREDA), the financial institution under MNES,
  provides soft loans for setting up of SHP
  projects

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Wind Power in the US

• TOTAL INSTALLED U.S. WIND ENERGY CAPACITY 6,374
  MW