The African Energy Data Book was launched in London by the UK-Based consultancy Africa Energy at the fifth annual African Investment Exchange: Power and Renewables meeting, which took place on November 14 and 15. The Meeting brought together investors from across all African electricity sectors. The Data Book has been designed to support industry professionals with 128 pages of comprehensive statistics on the energy mix in each of the continent’s countries and regions. The book complements the established African Energy Atlas to ensure that up-to-date and reliable information is available.
The publication tracks around 5,500 operating and pipeline projects and their value up to 2021, through African Energy Live Data, said the press conference presenters.
The African Energy Data Book though does not provide any analysis or trends yet but does indicates that installed capacity has increased by more than 63% to 236GW since 2010. It says that the continent has over 49 GW of renewable capacity. According to the African Energy atlas, a total of 15.5GW installed capacity was added in Africa in 2017.In sub-Saharan Africa, capacity at end-2018 is expected to be nearly 50% greater than in 2010.
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AfDB Unveils Africa Energy Portal
In other developments on similar lines, the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) launched an Africa Energy Portal (AEP) in Johannesberg, South Africa. In a statement the AfDB said that, “The AEP portal, hosted at http://africa-energy-portal.org, will consolidate, validate, and disseminate energy data and insights across Africa’s energy value chain, covering generation, transmission, distribution, regulation and policy.”
Till date there hasn’t been many attempts made to understand the complex energy needs and generation capacities of African nations. Global media reads data emanating from the continent in silos which is often incomprehensible. These developments, we think, will give us a much better understanding of the evolving nature of the continents as well as the continent in terms of its walk away from fossil fuels and towards renewable sources of energy.
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