Difference between revisions of "Burundi Energy Situation"
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| + | Burundi is a small, low income, densely-populated, landlocked country. The national income per capita is about $140, one of the lowest in the world. About 90 percent of the population lives in rural areas, although the urban population has grown rapidly in the past decade. According to the African Development Bank, 81 percent of the population was below the international poverty line of US$1 a day in 2006. Most of the rural population depends on subsistence farming and livestock for their livelihood and has only marginal involvement in the monetized economy. It is only in the last three years that private consumption has grown in real terms. | ||
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| + | <br>Burundi`s energy consumption relies to a great extent on biomass. Households are the main consumers of energy in the country, accounting for 94% of total consumption. Their needs are almost exclusively met by traditional biomass (99%). Electricity (0.3%), and oil products (0.4%) play an insignificant role. | ||
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| + | <br>If industry and transport is included, 94% of all energy consumption relies on biomass, which is composed by around 70% of fuel wood, 18% of agricultural residues, 6% of charcoal, and 1% of bagasse. | ||
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| + | <br>A key feature of the power sector in Burundi is the very low level of electrification. Total connections to the REGIDESO network have increased by about 10,000 since 2000 and now stand at about 41,000. Out of these 34,700 connections belong to households. That means that only 2% of the 1.6 million households in the country is currently electrified. Some 27,000 of these are located in Bujumbura, where the electrification rate is approximately 50%. Only 8,000 households (0.5 %) in the rest of the country are electrified. Even in electrified cities the connection rate is generally less than 10%. The average consumption of electricity in Burundi is 23 kWh/cap/year which is one of the lowest in the world (in Germany it was 7,442 kWh in 2004). | ||
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| + | <br>A key problem of the whole energy sector of Burundi is the scarcity of technical and management skills which affects the prospects for developing the country's energy resources, and it also reduces the scope for effective policy-making and the planning and operations of energy producing, marketing, and consuming institutions. | ||
= 1.2 Policy framework, laws and regulations = | = 1.2 Policy framework, laws and regulations = | ||
Revision as of 12:04, 21 September 2010
1.1 Energy situation
Burundi is a small, low income, densely-populated, landlocked country. The national income per capita is about $140, one of the lowest in the world. About 90 percent of the population lives in rural areas, although the urban population has grown rapidly in the past decade. According to the African Development Bank, 81 percent of the population was below the international poverty line of US$1 a day in 2006. Most of the rural population depends on subsistence farming and livestock for their livelihood and has only marginal involvement in the monetized economy. It is only in the last three years that private consumption has grown in real terms.
Burundi`s energy consumption relies to a great extent on biomass. Households are the main consumers of energy in the country, accounting for 94% of total consumption. Their needs are almost exclusively met by traditional biomass (99%). Electricity (0.3%), and oil products (0.4%) play an insignificant role.
If industry and transport is included, 94% of all energy consumption relies on biomass, which is composed by around 70% of fuel wood, 18% of agricultural residues, 6% of charcoal, and 1% of bagasse.
A key feature of the power sector in Burundi is the very low level of electrification. Total connections to the REGIDESO network have increased by about 10,000 since 2000 and now stand at about 41,000. Out of these 34,700 connections belong to households. That means that only 2% of the 1.6 million households in the country is currently electrified. Some 27,000 of these are located in Bujumbura, where the electrification rate is approximately 50%. Only 8,000 households (0.5 %) in the rest of the country are electrified. Even in electrified cities the connection rate is generally less than 10%. The average consumption of electricity in Burundi is 23 kWh/cap/year which is one of the lowest in the world (in Germany it was 7,442 kWh in 2004).
A key problem of the whole energy sector of Burundi is the scarcity of technical and management skills which affects the prospects for developing the country's energy resources, and it also reduces the scope for effective policy-making and the planning and operations of energy producing, marketing, and consuming institutions.
