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