New Tool Helps African Countries Find the Best Sites for Renewable Energy Projects

Africa has the lowest per capita electricity consumption in the world, due in part to scarce power generation and transmission infrastructure.

By some estimates, demand in the Eastern Africa Power Pool (EAPP) and Southern African Power Pool (SAPP), which include more than 50 percent of the continent’s population, may exceed 1,000 terra-watt hours (TWh) by 2030, nearly three times 2010 electricity consumption.  Much work needs to be done to supply that expected demand.
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A new tool called Multicriteria Analysis for Planning Renewable Energy (MapRE) might keep delays from happening by helping governments, utilities, and developers pick better sites for renewable energy projects.  Developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and International Renewable Energy Agency, MapRE lets users characterize solar and wind energy sites according to a fuller set of criteria than other analyses have.

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