A geospatial assessment of small-scale hydropower potential in sub-saharan Africa

Alexandros Korkovelos; Dimitrios Mentis; Shahid Hussain Siyal; Christopher Arderne; Holger Rogner; Morgan Bazilian; Mark Howells; Hylke Beck; Ad De Roo

doi:10.3390/en11113100

A geospatial assessment of small-scale hydropower potential in sub-saharan Africa

Alexandros Korkovelos, Dimitrios Mentis, Shahid Hussain Siyal, Christopher Arderne, Holger Rogner, Morgan Bazilian, Mark Howells, Hylke Beck, Ad De Roo

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Sub-Saharan Africa has been at the epicenter of an ongoing global dialogue around the issue of energy poverty. More than half of the world's population without access to modern energy services lives there. It also happens to be a sub-continent with plentiful renewable energy resource potential. Hydropower is one of them, and to a large extent it remains untapped. This study focuses on the technical assessment of small-scale hydropower (0.01-10 MW) in Sub-Saharan Africa. The underlying methodology was based on open source geospatial datasets, whose combination allowed a consistent evaluation of 712,615 km of river network spanning over 44 countries. Environmental, topological, and social constraints were included in the form of constraints in the optimization algorithm. The results are presented on a country and power pool basis.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Energies
Volume	11
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/en11113100
State	Published - Nov 1 2018
Externally published	Yes

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