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issues, therefore identifying areas of high and low wind power reliability in southern Africa at different time scales. After … of South Africa has shown the most interest in wind power investment. For this reason, we focus parts of the study on … wind resource in the country. The study finds that, although wind power density is high in South Africa compared to its …
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sources are becoming more accessible for many of the nations in Africa. However, little is known about the underlying climate …. We find that wind resources vary more over time and space than solar across Africa. Due mostly to these variations in …
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This paper assesses biofuels technology readiness and provides foresight to biofuels development in Southern Africa …
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The Nigerian power sector reform is necessitated by the chronic poor performance of the sector and has as its compass the 2005 Electric Power Sector Reform Act and the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform 2010. Implementing reform has resulted in significant progress that includes unbundling and...
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To accelerate the deployment of renewable energy technologies and to secure the electricity supply, the Government of Indonesia has issued several feed-in-tariff regulations for various renewable energy sources, which were previously predominated by pilot projects using government funding. The...
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expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results. This paper provides a working definition of capacity that is …
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In 2008, the Government of Zambia reformed its mining tax regime for large-scale copper mines through a unilateral legislative change. The country went from having one of the lowest average effective tax rates and government take to be above the average. We focus on a particularly controversial...
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both contribute substantially, and often are very vulnerable, to the impacts of GEC. This applies strongly in Africa, one …
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Donor support for decentralization comes in two main categories: recommendations at the policy level and project activities at the programming level. At the policy level, donors promote decentralization by recommending greater autonomy for subnational actors. That is, they advocate for reforms...
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achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post …
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