38 billion or 3 per cent of GDP. 8 billion a year, or some 0.49 per cent of GDP. 55 billion a year represents around 3.35 per cent of GDP. The World Health Organization estimates that 600,000 Africans die each year as a result of it. Energy services directly affect incomes, poverty and other dimensions of human development, including health and education. It affects health care, because vaccines can’t be refrigerated and equipment can’t be run. As a result, supplies will run out more slowly and remain available for more people. Moreover, it is likely that the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels to power an expanding economy will actually increase over at least the next two decades even with aggressive development and deployment of new renewable and nuclear technologies. Tight gas production has the longest history, having been expanding steadily for several decades. Incorrect interpretation can result in the abandonment of potentially successful wells or the expensive completion of a well with little potential for commercial production.

In a physical sense, there seems little doubt that sub-Saharan Africa has abundant energy resources, including the conventional sources like coal, natural gas, and hydropower, as well as abundant possibilities in certain locations for geothermal, solar, and wind power. The report acknowledges in a number of places the importance of moving ahead with environmentally-friendly and low-carbon sources of energy where possible, even discussing that Africa might over time be able to “leapfrog” to these alternatives. Brazil, China and Indonesia have achieved rapid electrification over short time periods. The country expanded electricity consumption fivefold between 2000 and 2013. Bangladesh has increased electricity consumption by a factor of four over the same period. 20 billion per year that could be redirected to supporting generation and distribution of electricity for all. Put differently, achieving universal access to clean cooking stoves, allied to wider measures, could save 300,000 young lives a year. If governments in Africa and the wider international community are serious about their commitment to ending avoidable deaths of children, then clean cooking facilities must be seen as a much higher priority. In addition to financing loss-making utilities, many governments subsidize kerosene.

Despite all the interest from international energy companies, Mozambique and Tanzania themselves may have trouble attracting favorable financing for the projects, some analysts say. Public financing accounts for around half of overall investment and Chinese investment, public-private partnerships and concessional development finance cover the rest. Almost half are children under 5 years old, with acute respiratory tract infection the primary cause of fatality. Yet the same countries are able to use their shareholder domination of the World Bank to limit support to Africa. First, overall power generation needs to increase at least 10-fold by 2040 if Africa’s energy systems are to support the growth in agriculture, manufacturing and services needed to create jobs and raise living standards. Productive uses of energy are particularly important to economic growth and job creation. Coal-fired generation occupies an important share in the energy mix of countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, where it has a far greater share than in most countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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