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GOAL 07: Affordable and clean energy

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

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Datasets
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PV electricity costs
Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for PV systems in Africa and the Middle East. The calculations are based on estimates of the PV energy productivity from satellite data combined with models for the per...
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Distance to electric grid
Distance from existing or planned electric grid lines (LV; MV; HV). Unit: km
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Refugee settlements total energy demand
The dataset depicts the total energy demand per settlement (kWh/day) at year 5 under scenario with household consumption raised to 1000 Wh/day (at year 0). This dataset is part of the e Refugee Settle...
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Land Degradation
Humans need increasingly more biomass for food, fodder, fiber and energy. In Africa, circa 22% of the vegetated land surface showed a decline or unstable land productivity between 1999 and 2013. Persi...
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Affordability of PV electricity
Electricity expenditure per day, in US$. Data are from ongoing JRC research. Higher levels of electricity expenditure may indicate that the country has a greater proportion of people with electricity ...
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Water footprint
Water Footprint in Africa, considered as the sum of both the green and blue WF and defined as the ratio between evapotranspiration (in m3 per hectare) and crop yield (in ton per hectare). The values a...
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International Wealth Index
The International Wealth Index is an asset-based wealth index that runs from 0 (no assets) to 100 (all assets) and is comparable across place and time. The lower the level of the Index, the greater th...
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Time spent on firewood collection, hours per day
Average time spent by households on fuel collection daily. The higher the number of daily hours that households spend in collecting fuel, the higher the improvements in the quality of life of communit...
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Educational centres without electricity access, % of total
Percentage of schools in Africa reporting to have no electricity. The lower the education facilities with access to electricity the greater the potential for decentralised renewable energies to improv...
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Population with electricity access, percentage of total
Percentage of population with access to electricity. Data, provided by the World Bank, have been collected among different sources: mostly data from nationally representative household surveys (includ...
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Population with clean cooking energy access, % of total
Proportion of total population primarily using clean cooking fuels and technologies for cooking. Under WHO guidelines, kerosene is excluded from clean cooking fuels. The indicator measures the potenti...
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Social Clean Energy Access Index
The Social Clean Energy Access Index allows an effective identification of priorities for action in clean electrification programs. Its innovation is due to its tailored design focusing on the social ...
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Healthcare centers with electricity access, % of total
Percentage of healthcare facilities with electricity access in selected countries. Information on electricity access for healthcare facilities has been collected in the electricity access health facil...
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Annual photovoltaic energy yield
African countries have an evident potential for solar energy. Knowing what amount of solar radiation reaches the earth's surface is of particular interest for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations. It...
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Annual water loss through evaporation from hydropower reservoirs (mcm/year)
Dam-induced impoundment of water in hydropower reservoirs usually causes enlarged water surfaces compared to the waterbody extent prior to dam construction (with the exception of reservoirs constraine...
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Annual gross water loss through evaporation from hydropower reservoirs (mcm/year
Dam-induced impoundment of water in hydropower reservoirs usually causes enlarged water surfaces compared to the waterbody extent prior to dam construction (with the exception of reservoirs constraine...
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Annual gross water loss vs annual energy production of hydropower plants (mcm/GW
In 2016, a total of 42 billion cubic meters of water was lost through evaporation in hydropower reservoirs in Africa. A huge amount compared to the 1.2 billion cubic meters lost from all the other fue...
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Total annual gross water loss through evaporation from hydropower reservoirs
Dam-induced impoundment of water in hydropower reservoirs usually causes enlarged water surfaces compared to the waterbody extent prior to dam construction (with the exception of reservoirs constraine...
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Total annual gross water loss vs total annual energy production of hydropower pl
In 2016, a total of 42 billion cubic meters of water was lost through evaporation in hydropower reservoirs in Africa. A huge amount compared to the 1.2 billion cubic meters lost from all the other fue...
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Total surface area of hydropower reservoirs
Higher energy demands in Africa has led to a wide expansion of the number of hydropower sites, mainly between the 1960s and 980s. The construction of dams causes impoundments of rivers and reservoirs ...
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Total installed capacity of hydropower plants
The hydropower installed capacity indicates the amount of energy a hydropower plant can produce in its turbines. In 2016, hydropower accounted for 54% of the installed capacity in Eastern Africa, 58% ...
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Total annual energy production of hydropower plants
Many African countries, especially in the Sub-Saharan region highly depend on hydropower which is one of the energy sources that are most affected by droughts. At the same time hydropower has a huge i...
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Annual surface area of hydropower reservoirs
Higher energy demands in Africa has led to a wide expansion of the number of hydropower sites, mainly between the 1960s and 1980s. The construction of dams causes impoundments of rivers and reservoirs...
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Annual evaporation from hydropower reservoirs
Evaporation from hydropower reservoirs represents a key component of the reservoir water budget. Depending on the different climate regimes on the continent, the rate of evaporation from open water ch...
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Power plants (Installed capacity)
This dataset shows the African power plants and their installed capacity in MegaWatt (MW). It includes thermal plants (coal, gas, oil, nuclear, biomass, waste, geothermal) and renewables (hydro, wind,...
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Power plants (Generation Type)
This dataset shows the African power plants by energy generation type. It includes thermal plants (coal, gas, oil, nuclear, biomass, waste, geothermal) and renewables (hydro, wind, solar). Each power ...
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Installed capacities of hydropower plants
The hydropower installed capacity indicates the amount of energy a hydropower plant can produce in its turbines. In 2016, hydropower accounted for 54% of the installed capacity in Eastern Africa, 58% ...
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INFORM Risk Index: Communication
Understanding why and where humanitarian disasters are likely to occur is a fundamental step in saving lives and promoting sustainable development. The coping capacity dimension of the INFORM Risk Ind...
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INFORM Risk Index: Lack of coping capacity (infrastructure component)
Understanding why and where humanitarian disasters are likely to occur is a fundamental step in saving lives and promoting sustainable development. The coping capacity dimension of the INFORM Risk Ind...
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INFORM Risk Index: Lack of coping capacity
Understanding why and where humanitarian disasters are likely to occur is a fundamental step in saving lives and promoting sustainable development. This layer presents the coping capacity dimension of...
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INFORM Risk Classes 2021
Understanding why and where humanitarian disasters are likely to occur is a fundamental step in saving lives and promoting sustainable development. The INFORM Risk Index is a global, open-source risk ...
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INFORM Risk Index 2021
Understanding why and where humanitarian disasters are likely to occur is a fundamental step in saving lives and promoting sustainable development. The INFORM Risk Index is a global, open-source risk ...
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Wind power (W/m2)
The Global Wind Atlas is a free, web-based application developed to help policymakers, planners, and investors identify high-wind areas for wind power generation. It also serves as a useful tool for g...
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Travel time to major cities
The world is shrinking. Cheap flights, large scale commercial shipping and expanding road networks all mean that we are better connected to everywhere else than ever before. Accessibility - whether it...
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National retail diesel prices [US $ cents /litre] 2012
In the last decade, the global and African economies have been marked by a high volatility in the prices of diesel. Higher diesel prices impact not only the electricity generation costs but also the p...
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Battery Size vs Photovoltaic Array ratio (kWH/KWP) - High night-time consumption
Modern energy services are crucial to human well-being and to a country’s economic development; and yet 1.2 billion people are without access to electricity. It is recognized that the central grid is ...
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Cost of Photo Voltaic versus Diesel
Modern energy services are crucial to human well-being and to a country’s economic development. Yet 1.2 billion people worldwide live without access to electricity. It is recognized that the central g...
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Solar global horizontal irradiation
African countries have an evident potential for solar energy. Knowing the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth's surface is of particular interest for photovoltaic installations. It can be rep...
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Nuclear Trade - Import 2020 (USD)
Nuclear Trade is provided by the Joint Research Centre's Nuclear Trade Atlas is developed to promote understanding of global trade flows of nuclear goods. Trade flows are classified under a basket of ...
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Nuclear Trade - Import 2016 (USD)
Nuclear Trade is provided by the Joint Research Centre's Nuclear Trade Atlas is developed to promote understanding of global trade flows of nuclear goods. Trade flows are classified under a basket of ...
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Nuclear Trade - Export 2020 (USD)
Nuclear Trade is provided by the Joint Research Centre's Nuclear Trade Atlas is developed to promote understanding of global trade flows of nuclear goods. Trade flows are classified under a basket of ...
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Nuclear Trade - Export 2016 (USD)
Nuclear Trade is provided by the Joint Research Centre's Nuclear Trade Atlas is developed to promote understanding of global trade flows of nuclear goods. Trade flows are classified under a basket of ...
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Battery Size vs Photovoltaic Array ratio (kWH/KWP) - High day-time consumption
Modern energy services are crucial to human well-being and to a country’s economic development; and yet 1.2 billion people are without access to electricity. It is recognized that the central grid is ...
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Electricity network existing and planned
In Sub-Saharan Africa, medium- and low-voltage data are often non-existent, uncompleted, or unavailable. This is a challenge for practitioners working on the electricity access agenda, power sector re...
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National retail diesel prices [US $ cents /litre] 2016
In the last decade, the global and African economies have been marked by a high volatility in the prices of diesel. Higher diesel prices impact not only the electricity generation costs but also the p...
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Cost of electricity produced by a diesel generator
Despite a high total population, most parts of the African continent are sparsely populated, with almost 60% living in non-urban areas. Diesel generators have long been the traditional solution to dec...
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Stories
These interactive stories are aimed at EU policymakers and African stakeholders. All stories are relevant to all African countries, but some present country specific data.
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Mapping mines from space
Monitoring compliance of gold mines in Republic of Congo using earth observation.
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Critical Raw Materials in Africa
Securing a sustainable supply of cobalt for a low-emissions and digital future
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WEFE: a delicate balance
The Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus in the Senegal River Basin
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Unleashing clean energy potential in Africa
Unleashing clean energy potential in Africa
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Tools
This selection of analytical tools allows you to interact with detailed maps and statistics. All tools are relevant to all African countries, and some have a global dimension.
Clean Energy Access Prioritiser
The Clean Energy Access Prioritiser (CEAP) is an open-source decision-support tool designed to identify priority areas for clean energy interventions and investments. ...
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