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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111935
	The costs of providing access to electricity in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and policy implications
	Valickova P.; Elms N.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	03014215
卷号	148
英文摘要	Access to reliable energy is recognised as a key driver of human and economic development. Despite this, today only 45% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa has access to electricity. Sustainable Development Goal number 7 calls for ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for everyone. Yet, at the current rate of progress, less than 60% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa will have access to electricity by 2030. In view of the urgent need to accelerate the rate at which electricity access is provided, we developed a detailed least-cost optimisation model to identify the incremental costs of providing access for the group of 12 countries in the Southern African Power Pool. Our analysis shows that achieving universal access by 2030 in the region, would lead to an incremental generation cost of between 5.2 and 11.4 US$2018 billion, depending on the consumption of newly connected households. This corresponds to an increase of system generation costs by 4–8% and the levelized incremental cost of supply to the customer of 108–116 US$2018 per megawatt hour. This is lower than what a typical household pays for poor alternatives to electricity, such as kerosene for lighting, implying that policy makers should accelerate access. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Development Electricity access Power sector modelling Sub-Saharan Africa
英文关键词	Public policy; Electricity access; Generation cost; Incremental cost; Policy implications; Reliable energy; Sub-saharan africa; System generation; Universal access; Cost benefit analysis; accessibility; cost analysis; electricity generation; electricity supply; energy policy; numerical model; optimization; policy approach; public access; Sub-Saharan Africa
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205379
作者单位	Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Opletalova 1606/26, Prague, 110 00, Czech Republic
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Valickova P.,Elms N.. The costs of providing access to electricity in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and policy implications[J],2021,148.
APA	Valickova P.,&Elms N..(2021).The costs of providing access to electricity in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and policy implications.Energy Policy,148.
MLA	Valickova P.,et al."The costs of providing access to electricity in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and policy implications".Energy Policy 148(2021).