Title :
Central African Power Pool summary
Abstract :
This paper describes three organizations that helps the development of the power sector in Central Africa, namely: Central African Power Pool (CAPP), Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the New Partnership for Africa´s Development (NEPAD). CAPP vision is to exploit the enormous hydroelectric potentialities of the Central Africa and to satisfy all demands in electricity with the households, the states and the central African industry. ECCAS promotes and reinforces a harmonious cooperation and a dynamic, balance and auto-kept development in all domains of the economic and social activity. NEPAD objective is to guarantee the lasting development and the integration of the African continent.
Keywords :
power markets; power system economics; power system harmonics; power system interconnection; CAPP; Central African Power Pool; ECCAS; Economic Community of Central African States; NEPAD; New Partnership for Africa Development; electricity demands; hydroelectric potentialities; power sector development; Africa; Energy management; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Financial management; Human resource management; Management training; Power generation economics; Power markets; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2005. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9157-8
DOI :
10.1109/PES.2005.1489762