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Zhang Yonghong: Impetus and Constraints Behind African Renewable Energy Development
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Zhang Yonghong: Impetus and Constraints Behind African Renewable Energy Development

Abstract:
In Africa, road nets and power grids are backward, conflicts between environmental protection and economic growth, high energy consumption, fossil energy trade deficit, energy security risk, pressures from transitional world are more and more serious. These issues are constraints as well as impetus. Today, global investment in renewable energy is higher than in fossil energy, renewable energy costs are down sharply, which will pull on African renewable energy development by making international capital, outside technologies, and local resources, markets into a whole. But the integration outside power into local impetus is obstructed by small-scale, unbalance, wrong institutional mechanism. It is necessary to set down a lot of new policies for African countries to grasp the opportunities of renewable energy revolution such as renewable energy development strategy, structural adjustment strategy, breaking monopoly, appropriate use of off-grid power generation system and risk countermeasures, etc.


Key Words: Africa, Renewable Energy, Impetus and Constraints


Published at West Asia and Africa
Chinese, No.5, 2013.