Powering Africa: Meeting the financing and reform challenges

Energy Policy

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 9-18

  Eberhard, Anton ^a   Shkaratan, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Electricity; Finance

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; GENERATION CAPACITY; HIGH COSTS; HYBRID POWER MARKET; POWER NEEDS; POWER PROBLEM; PRIVATE INVESTMENT; REGIONAL INTEGRATION; STATE-OWNED UTILITIES; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRICITY; FINANCE;

INVESTMENTS;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRIFICATION; ENERGY MARKET; IDEOLOGY; INVESTMENT; POWER GENERATION;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84856254307     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.10.033     Document Type: Article

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