Africa's power infrastructure investment, integration, efficiency /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C :
World Bank,
c2011.
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| Series: | Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Infrastructure.
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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.