DocumentCode
2687265
Title
Energy sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author
Nkwetta, Dan Nchelatebe ; Vu Van Thong ; Driesen, Johan ; Belmans, Ronnie
Author_Institution
Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Leuven
fYear
2007
fDate
9-11 Oct. 2007
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
5
Abstract
Sub-Saharan African countries are today confronted with the problem of urban and demographic growths thus needing to reach a sustainable rate of positive economic growth. In order to meet this sustainability, many reforms are being carried out among which is the energy sector which will lead to future energy supply in an open globalised energy market as well as providing the basic energy needs. One of such methods involves the use of distributed generation (DG) which is always located closed to consumption points for rapid electrification. How ever, the use of DG involves the need of a stable network which most often is lacking in Sub-Saharan African countries thus growing concern of DG on their loosely integrated grids.
Keywords
distributed power generation; power markets; sustainable development; demographic growths; distributed generation; energy sector; energy sustainability; globalised energy market; positive economic growth; rapid electrification; subSaharan Africa; urban growths; Africa; Distributed control; Mesh generation; Photovoltaic systems; Power generation; Power generation economics; Power supplies; Power systems; Wind energy generation; Wind power generation; Distributed generation (DG); Energy sustainability; Sub-Saharan African countries; loosely integrated grids and stability; rolling blackouts;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Electrical Power Quality and Utilisation, 2007. EPQU 2007. 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Barcelona
Print_ISBN
978-84-690-9441-9
Electronic_ISBN
978-84-690-9441-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/EPQU.2007.4424224
Filename
4424224
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