Making Africas Renewable Energy Resources Work for its Development

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Making Africas Renewable Energy Resources Work
for its Development

• Statement for the workshop Turning Africas
  Energy Resources into Development. Africa -
  Europe Energy Forum Berlin 2007 Towards an
  Africa - Europe Energy Partnership Berlin, 6 - 7
  March 2007

Paul Suding, REN21 Secretariat
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StatementsI. Opportunities for Making Africas
Renewable Energy Resources Work for its
DevelopmentII. Importance of Renewable Energy
Policies and for EU Africa Policy Exchange
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Source REN21 Global Status Report 2006
Opportunities for Renewables and Development in
Africa 1. (Fewer)professional actors, large and
medium scale systems

• Large-scale, transboundary system level
• Large Hydro Power Zambezi, Congo, Nile, Volta,
  Senegal, a.o.
• Bulk clean power, water supply, irrigation,
  shipping, tourism
• Disruptive intervention in settlements and
  environment
• B. Medium-scale electricity generation,
  integrated in national grid
• Medium Hydro Smaller river basins and
  tributaries
• Wind Parks North Africa, South Africa and
  Namibia
• Geothermal Power Great Rift Valley
• Biomass CHP from agricultural processing and
  forestry
• Concentrating Solar Power (future)
• Bulk clean power, risk reduction, distributed
  value added, employment, technology
• C . Biofuels production, for national transport
  fuel system or export
• Ethanol Sugarcane growing areas
• Bio diesel Edible oil plantations, marginal land
  for Jatropha
• Energy import and price risk reduction, income
  generation, employment, marginal land use
• Food resources competition, Land use and
  biodiversity

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Source REN21 Global Status Report 2006
Opportunities for Renewables and Development in
Africa 2. (very) many actors and small size
installations

• D. Rural off-grid centres
• Small hydro, Small wind, Biomass, Biogas,
  Biofuel, Solar PV, Hybrid, (PV/wind or other),
• Biomass gasification, Biogas
• Direct use Large Solar water heaters, Solar and
  natural dryers, Mechanical Wind Pumps etc.
• Energy for local development and social services
  virtual local cycle
• E. Household scale and appliance size
• Solar Water Heaters
• PV Solar Home System and PV appliances
• Biogas, biofuel and solar cooking
• Improvement of conditions of life, communication,
  individual opportunities
• F. Sustainable household biomass
• Improved stoves
• Energy efficient transformation of biomass
• Sustainable biomass supply
• Reduction of pressure on biomass resources,
  health protection, maintain local business

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Policies to harness the RE opportunities1.
(Fewer) professional actors, large and medium
scale systems
A Large hydropower project-specific policy,
address sustainability concerns B Energy system
integration of RETs for electricity general
market deployment policies (see graph, slide 6)
technology specific RD policies C Energy
system integration of biofuels general market
deployment policies technology specific RD
policies, address sustainability concerns
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Timeline and Impact of RE Policies
R D
Demonstration
Standards
Public Investment
Public bidding - tendering
Fiscal Incentives
General Market Entry Rules
Price- or quantity-driven support schemes
Green Certificates
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Policies to harness the RE opportunities 2.
(very) many actors and small size installations

• D Rural off grid
• Objective multiply (replicate and scale up)
• Enabling framework, public institutions as
  pilots, encourage private projects, SME-RESCO,
  local manufacturers, knowledge networks,
  productive use and mini credits
• E Household scale
• Objective mass markets
• Standards and (buidling) regulation, support
  local manufacturers, social housing programmes,
  mini credits
• D Sustainable household biomass
• Objective Render the markets/systems sustainable
• Integrated biomass supply and demand approach

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RE Policy exchange should be part of the EU
Africa Energy Partnership

• Exchange between EU and African experience on A,
  B and C
• South-South experience exchange on D, E, F
• Use experience in countries (what works?)

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REN21 Mission

• REN21 - providing international leadership for
  the rapid expansion of renewable energy in
  developing and industrial countries based on
  cooperation of participants
• Informal network, flexible, multiple stakeholders
  from energy, development and environment
  community
• www.ren21.net
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