Report of the technical panel of experts on hydropower
In the framework of the preparations for the United Nations. Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy to be held in August 1981 at Nairobi, Kenya, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Eq.) organized three simultaneous meetings of experts from 20 to 24 October 1980 at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the areas of hydropower, geothermal energy and biomass conversion, including fuelwood and charcoal. The importance of hydroelectric installations in the economic development of African countries was also stressed as hydropower possessed obvious advantages in terms of future energy supplies in Africa. The document indicated that the hydroelectric resources of the continent had been only partly explored to date and were still poorly known. Estimates of the resources were uncertain, on the one hand because of a lack of hydrological data for most waterways and, on the other, the inadequacy of studies on projects for the development of a number of possible sites.
| Format: | Reports biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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1980-10
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/41515 |
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| Summary: | In the framework of the preparations for the United Nations. Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy to be held in August 1981 at Nairobi, Kenya, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Eq.) organized three simultaneous meetings of experts from 20 to 24 October 1980 at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the areas of hydropower, geothermal energy and biomass conversion, including fuelwood and charcoal. The importance of hydroelectric installations in the economic development of African countries was also stressed as hydropower possessed obvious advantages in terms of future energy supplies in Africa. The document indicated that the hydroelectric resources of the continent had been only partly explored to date and were still poorly known. Estimates of the resources were uncertain, on the one hand because of a lack of hydrological data for most waterways and, on the other, the inadequacy of studies on projects for the development of a number of possible sites. |
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