{"id":9822,"date":"2020-05-29T09:09:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T06:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=9822"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:05","slug":"hydropower-plants-to-support-solar-and-wind-energy-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/05\/29\/hydropower-plants-to-support-solar-and-wind-energy-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydropower Plants To Support Solar And Wind Energy In West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hydropower plants can support solar and wind power, rather unpredictable by nature, in a climate-friendly manner. A new study in the scientific journal\u00a0<em>Nature Sustainability<\/em>\u00a0has now mapped the potential for such &#8220;solar-wind-water&#8221; strategies for West Africa: an important region where the power sector is still under development, and where generation capacity and power grids will be greatly expanded in the coming years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Countries in West Africa therefore now have the opportunity to plan this expansion according to strategies that rely on modern, climate-friendly energy generation,&#8221; says Sebastian Sterl, energy and climate scientist at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and KU Leuven and lead author of the study. &#8220;A completely different situation from Europe, where power supply has been dependent on polluting power plants for many decades\u2014which many countries now want to rid themselves of.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solar and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/wind+power\/\">wind power<\/a>\u00a0generation is increasing worldwide and becoming cheaper and cheaper. This helps to keep climate targets in sight, but also poses challenges. For instance, critics often argue that these\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy+sources\/\">energy sources<\/a>\u00a0are too unpredictable and variable to be part of a reliable electricity mix on a large scale. <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2020-05-hydropower-solar-energy-west-africa.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydropower plants can support solar and wind power, rather unpredictable by nature, in a climate-friendly manner. A new study in the scientific journal\u00a0Nature Sustainability\u00a0has now mapped the potential for such&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9823,"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-9822","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\/9822","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=9822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}