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    • Energy needs
      • Health facilities
        126,940 records
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        The health centres analysed by the tool have minimum or no electricity access
        By default we only show the health facilities outside of the grid
        You can visualize health centres inside of the grid with the tool below. These features will be shown with a lower opacity
        Outside grid
        56,827 records
        Inside grid
        70,113 records
        Health facilities in Benin are being monitored by on-site remote energy logging devices, live tracking of consumption data. The Project Solar4Clinics is developed by A2EI / GIZ in collaboration with the Benin Ministry of Health and EU support The platform is located here
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      • Schools
        492,414 records
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        The schools dataset was developed in collaboration with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)/GIGA project and the Kids Research Institute Australia
        This publication outlines the methodology and proxies used.
        Caution: Although using the best open source available data, inaccuracies or omissions in the locations of facilities may still occur, as acknowledged in our methods for 16 countries
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      • Power Plants
        3,593 records
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      • Refugee settlements
        288 records
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        Download (October 2024)
        All known formal and informal settlements of forcibly displaced and stateless people in Africa from UNHCR’s GIS database as of October 2024 Where available, polygonal areas are also added
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      • Electric grid
        126,940 Km
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        Statistics per country (Kilometers)
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      • Travel time
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        ≤ 20min
        20-60 min
        60-120 min
        2h-4h
        4h-8h
        8h-16h
        >=16h
        ≤ 30min
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      • Distance to grid
        5-7.5 Km
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        10-15 Km
        15-25 Km
        25-40 Km
        40-80 Km
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      • Population
        Population in non-electrified areas
        Hab/250m
        Dispersed (3-50 Hab/250m)
        Low (50-300)
        Moderate (300-1500)
        High (>=1500)
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        The criteria used to delineate the electrified areas were:
        • 1) Populated areas located within 5 km to the existing electricity grid
        • 2) Settlements with detected night-time light: Areas where the probability of a household to have electricity is higher than 10%
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      • Night lights
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    • Spatial Analysis
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    • Energy base maps
    • CMP – Sector Support Studies layers
      Layers available in this section have been developed under activities of the Africa Continental Power System Masterplan and specifically under the work stream of Specific Support Studies. Reports and detailed information related to the layers presented here is available under the CMP Mwanga Platform, Specific Support Studies section
      • Solar
        505 records
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        Data displayed under this layer has been taken from "Global Solar Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, January 2023 release", Global Solar Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor license
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      • Hydro pumped storage
        36 records
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      • Wind
        7175 records
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      • Battery Energy Storage Systems
        23 records
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      • Hydrogen
        25 records

        You are visualizing on the map how many Hydrogen projects there are per country

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      • Geothermal
        89 records

        You are visualizing the counting and location of geothermal sites on the map. For each geothermal site there could be more than one geothermal power plant.

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