Independent power producers: a solution for Africa?

MARCH 2017

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INDEPENDENT POWER PRODUCERS: A SOLUTION FOR AFRICA?

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Independent power producers: a solution for Africa?

Published on Mar 10, 2017

Agence Française de Développement

This issue of Private Sector & Development explores the benefits – and the requirements – of increased intervention in electricity production by the private sector. How have independent power generation projects established in Africa fared to date? What are the main obstacles in the way of their growth? Can private projects help to facilitate a shift towards renewable energies? Can decentralized means of production that are not connected to the main electricity grid (“off-grid”) ease access to retail customers and SMEs? As a general rule, developing efficient public-private partnerships would seem to be the best – indeed perhaps the only – solution for confronting the major challenge of sub-Saharan Africa’s energy deficit.

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