{"id":6542,"date":"2019-11-13T09:54:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T06:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","slug":"50-energy-improvement-could-grow-africa-fourfold-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/13\/50-energy-improvement-could-grow-africa-fourfold-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"50% Energy Improvement Could Grow Africa Fourfold, Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By&nbsp;Times Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Africa has the potential to\nexpand its economy fourfold, with energy demands expanding by only 50 per cent,\naccording to a new report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Energy\nAgency (IEA) unveiled its report on the first day of the second African\nInvestment Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Africa Energy Outlook 2019\nfound that the continent\u2019s future energy prospects look bright, but only if\ngovernments can make the shift to more renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report says there are\nthree factors that will determine the continent\u2019s future energy consumption &#8211;\nits growing population, the rapid increase in urbanization and\nindustrialization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kieran McNamara, an analyst\nat IEA, noted that these will have \u201cprofound effects on Africa\u2019s energy mix and\nhow the economy develops.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IEA has for the first\ntime conducted detailed modelling of the energy mix for 11 countries in\nSub-Saharan Africa, namely Angola, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo,\nKenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Mozambique, Nigeria and Senegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The projected energy mix needed for Africa will be very different from the current one, with countries moving away from biomass and fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 600 million Africans have no access to electricity, although this has improved since 2013, according to IEA\u2019s analysis\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/business\/50-energy-improvement-could-grow-africa-fourfold-study-shows\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Times Reporter Africa has the potential to expand its economy fourfold, with energy demands expanding by only 50 per cent, according to a new report. The International Energy Agency (IEA)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}