Africa Energy Poverty : G8 Energy Ministers Meeting 2009

Worldwide, about 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity services. There are also large populations without access in the poorer countries of Asia and Latin America, as well as in the rural and peri-urban areas of middle income countries. However large-scale electrification programs that is currently underway in middle income countries and the poor countries of Asia will increase household electricity access more rapidly than in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa has the lowest electrification rate of all the regions at 26 percent of households, meaning that as many as 547 million people are without access to electricity. On current trends less than half of African countries will reach universal access to electricity even by 2050. Without access to electricity services, the poor are deprived of opportunities to improve their living standards and the delivery of health and education services is compromised when electricity is not available in clinics, in schools and in the households of students and teachers. The total financing needs for Africa to resolve the power supply crisis are of the order of approximately US$40 billion per annum or 6.4 percent of region's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In response to the power crisis, donors have increased their support to the power sector, though more is needed. From the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, donor assistance for the African power sector averaged no more than US$500 million per year. The private sector will be key to energy access expansion. For example, private sector expertise will be needed to develop the large complex generation and transmission projects (especially cross-border projects) that are necessary and for which a project finance approach will be often the most appropriate. The current global credit crisis poses additional challenges to mobilizing financing for energy infrastructure and especially for projects with perceived higher risk or higher costs. Nevertheless, governments can still access finance in the private markets for sound investments.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2009-05-24
Subjects:	ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY, ACCESS TO ENERGY, ACCESS TO GRID ELECTRICITY, ACCESS TO MODERN ENERGY, ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE, AFFORDABLE ENERGY, AIR, AIR POLLUTION, AIR QUALITY, APPROACH, AVAILABILITY, BALANCE, BIOGAS, BIOMASS, BIOMASS COMBUSTION, BORDER TRADE, BORDER TRANSMISSION, BOTTOM LINE, CARBON ECONOMY, CARBON EMISSIONS, CARBON ENERGY, CARBON FINANCE, CARBON FOOTPRINT, CARBON MARKET, CARBON TECHNOLOGIES, CLEAN ENERGY, CLEAN FUELS, CLEAN TECHNOLOGY, CLEAN WATER, CLEANER ENERGY, CLIMATE, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION, CLIMATE POLICY, CO, CO2, COAL, COLLECTION SYSTEMS, COMPACT FLUORESCENT LAMPS, COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHT BULBS, CONNECTED HOUSEHOLDS, COSTS OF ELECTRICITY, CROP PROCESSING, DEFORESTATION, DEMAND FOR POWER, DEMAND MANAGEMENT, DESERTIFICATION, DIESEL, DIESEL GENERATORS, DISTRIBUTION NETWORK, DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS, DROUGHT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECOSYSTEM, EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT, EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS, EFFICIENT LIGHTING, ELECTRICITY, ELECTRICITY BILLS, ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION, ELECTRICITY DEMAND, ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION, ELECTRICITY GENERATION, ELECTRICITY SECTOR, ELECTRICITY SUPPLY, ELECTRICITY USAGE, ELECTRICITY UTILITIES, ELECTRICITY UTILITY, ELECTRIFICATION, EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS, EMPLOYMENT, END-USE, ENERGY AUDITS, ENERGY CONSUMPTION, ENERGY COSTS, ENERGY CROPS, ENERGY DEVELOPMENT, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, ENERGY MARKETS, ENERGY MIX, ENERGY NEEDS, ENERGY OUTLOOK, ENERGY POLICIES, ENERGY POLICY, ENERGY PRICES, ENERGY PRODUCTION, ENERGY RESEARCH, ENERGY SAVINGS, ENERGY SECURITY, ENERGY SERVICE, ENERGY SOURCE, ENERGY SOURCES, ENERGY SUPPLY, ENERGY SYSTEMS, ENERGY USE, ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, FEEDSTOCKS, FOREST, FOREST SERVICE, FOSSIL, FOSSIL FUEL, FUEL, FUEL EFFICIENCY, FUEL SUBSTITUTION, FUEL USE, FUEL WOOD, GASOLINE, GENERATION, GENERATION CAPACITY, GEOTHERMAL DEVELOPMENT, GEOTHERMAL ENERGY, GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES, GHG, GLOBAL EMISSIONS, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY, GLOBAL GREENHOUSE, GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS, GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, GREENHOUSE, GRID ELECTRICITY, GRID ELECTRICITY SERVICE, GRID ELECTRIFICATION, GRID EXTENSION, GRID RENEWABLE ENERGY, GRID SYSTEMS, HEALTH RISKS, HEAT, HOUSEHOLD ENERGY, HYDRO-POWER, HYDROPOWER, IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, INCINERATION, INCOME, INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY, INVESTMENTS IN ENERGY, INVESTMENTS IN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE, KEROSENE, KILOWATT HOUR, KILOWATT-HOUR, LAND DEGRADATION, LAND USE, LANDFILL, LANDFILL SITES, LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS, LIQUID FUELS, LIVING STANDARDS, LOAD SHEDDING, LOW-CARBON, MODERN FUELS, NATURAL DISASTERS, NATURAL FORESTS, NATURAL GAS, NATURAL RESOURCES, NEGATIVE IMPACTS, OIL, OIL PRICE, OIL PRICES, PER CAPITA ENERGY, PER CAPITA ENERGY USE, PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM GAS, PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS, PIPELINE, PIPELINE PROJECTS, POWER, POWER CRISIS, POWER DEMAND, POWER GENERATION, POWER GENERATION CAPACITY, POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS, POWER PRODUCER, POWER PRODUCERS, POWER SECTOR, POWER SHORTAGES, POWER SOURCES, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SYSTEM, POWER SYSTEMS, POWER TRADE, POWER UTILITIES, PRECIPITATION, PRIMARY ENERGY, QUALITY ENERGY, QUALITY FUEL, RENEWABLE ENERGY, RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT, RENEWABLE ENERGY PROGRAM, RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES, RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES, RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPLY, RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES, RURAL ELECTRIFICATION, RURAL ENERGY, SAFE DISPOSAL, SMOKE, SOLAR HOME SYSTEMS, SOLAR PANELS, SOLAR RESOURCES, SOLID FUELS, SPACE HEATING, SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, TEMPERATURE, THERMAL CAPACITY, TONS OF CARBON, TRADITIONAL FUEL, TRADITIONAL FUELS, TRANSMISSION CAPACITY, TRANSMISSION INFRASTRUCTURE, TURBINE, UNEP, URBAN POPULATION, UTILITIES, VEHICLES, WATER QUALITY, WIND, WORLD ENERGY, WORLD ENERGY OUTLOOK,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/05/16465397/africa-energy-poverty-g8-energy-ministers-meeting-2009 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/12673
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