e_Parliament, Ol Tukai
Lodge, Amboseli National Park, Kenya, 17-19 November 2006
Current modern energy supply make-up in Africa
3Electricity is a catalyst for
economic development
3All countries do their best to
increase access as it is essential to attain the UN MDGs
3Actual efforts for
development of energy sector are mainly based on oil products (i.e. pipeline
Nigeria – Ghana, etc.)
3African oil use has gone from 40
million tonnes in 1971 to 118 million tonnes in 2001
3Most African countries import this
oil
3Electricity consumption per capita
has dropped from 431kWh to 112 kWh from
1980 to 2000
