Solar Energy Development in Africa: Economics and Policies

DOI

10.2991/isemss-19.2019.45How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Solar energy, Economic situation, Applicable policies.

Abstract

The foreign countries have been starting to assist African counties to develop their electricity industry. The African continent is such an unopened Pandora for renewable energy, solar energy included. Africa has abundant solar resources and high availability. However, Africa accounts for a very small proportion (15MW) of the total installed capacity of 15 megawatts of solar photovoltaics worldwide. There are some solar module manufacturing plants in South Africa, but their production capacity is limited to tens of megawatts. Solar energy is known as the stainable energy resource, should have the promising problem in the African continent.This study provides a systematic study from the following perspective: describing the demand and supply situation and then the economic growth situation will be mentioned. Mainly analysing the cost with the regression model, the overall summary will be drawn.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhengxuan Zhu
AU  - Yu Yan
PY  - 2019/09
DA  - 2019/09
TI  - Solar Energy Development in Africa: Economics and Policies
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 232
EP  - 235
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/isemss-19.2019.45
DO  - 10.2991/isemss-19.2019.45
ID  - Zhu2019/09
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