Hydropower In Africa: An OverviewJune 1st, 2019 by David ZarembkaLast week, Joshua Hill posted an article on CleanTechnica titled Hydropower “Not Necessary” To Meet Global Climate & Energy Goals, Says WWF & Nature Conservancy. Except for South Africa, which is highly dependent on coal and its two nuclear power plants (see my article on South Africa), there are no other nuclear power plants in Africa and very few coal plants. Who is going to use all this energy which is more than the current total hydropower output now of the whole continent? With the falling cost of wind, solar, and storage, is all this new hydropower in Africa necessary? Except in North Africa, wind, solar, and storage in Africa is still considerably more expensive than elsewhere in the world, for example, those extremely low rates for solar projects in the Middle East.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 01, 2019 12:00 UTC