IEA data shows that renewable capacity ambitions by 2030 across NDCs amount to a total of over 1,300GW. This is just 12% of the global tripling pledge, which requires installed renewable capacity of at least 11,000GW by 2030. Sub-Saharan Africa’s renewable energy targets for 2030The report says individual country ambitions indicate that SSA plans to more than triple its renewable energy capacity to more than 165GW by 2030. “For Angola, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Rwanda and Senegal, conditional renewable capacity ambitions are nearly 70% higher than unconditional ones. Egypt has the second largest non-hydropower installed renewable capacity in 2022 and the country has a long track-record in installing renewable capacity using several types of policies.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 05, 2024 02:58 UTC