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|Pub Author=Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Kabir Malik, Andrew Tipping, Juliette Besnard and John Nash | |Pub Author=Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Kabir Malik, Andrew Tipping, Juliette Besnard and John Nash |
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the modern world. The majority of this population without access to electricity is rural and poor. Rural electrification efforts in the region have not achieved sufficient progress in increasing electricity access as these areas are typically commercially unattractive, characterized by sparsely distributed customers with low electricity consumption and ability to pay, and a high cost of service to extend the grid. Rural enterprises and households thus must cope without electricity, relying instead on expensive, poor quality backups (e.g., diesel, kerosene or other oil-based sources), thereby stunting productivity, limiting development outcomes, and imposing harmful environmental impacts. The rural economies are overwhelmingly dependent on agriculture; in fact, agriculture and agribusiness comprise nearly half of Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP). These enterprises require electricity to grow to their potential, while the expansion of rural energy services needs consumers with consistent power needs to serve as a reliable revenue source.
Can agriculture and energy come together in Sub-Saharan Africa to offer a double dividend with
benefits to enterprises, households, utilities, and private-sector service providers? This is the central question of this study. That is, can energy intensive activities along the agriculture value chains provide significant revenues to the power utilities and increase the financial viability of rural electrification? Combining agricultural load with other household and commercial power demand could increase the feasibility of extending the grid or creating opportunities for independent power producers and mini-grid operators. Drawing on a suite of case studies, this study offers insights on what it would take to operationalize the opportunities and address the challenges for power-agriculture integration in Africa.
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