Briceño-Garmendia, CeciliaEberhard, AntonOuedraogo, FatimataFoster, VivienShkaratan, MariaCamos, Daniel2012-06-122012-06-122008-05https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7833Sub-Saharan Africa is in the midst of a power crisis marked by insufficient generating capacity, unreliable supplies, high prices, and low rates of popular access to the electricity grid. The region's capacity for generating power is lower than that of any other world region, and growth in that capacity has stagnated. The average price of power in Sub-Saharan Africa is double that of other developing regions, but supply is unreliable. Because new household connections in many countries are not keeping up with population growth, the electrification rate, already low, is actually declining. The manifestations of the current crisis are symptoms of deeper problems that are explored in this study of power sector institutions in 24 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, which draws extensively on a new body of research undertaken as part of the multi-donor Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD). There are nearly 60 medium- to longer-term power sector projects involving the private sector in the region excluding leases for emergency power generation. Almost half of these are independent power producers (IPPs). Involving more than $2 billion of private sector investment, these IPPs have added early 3,000 MW of new capacity. A few IPP investments have been particularly well structured and contribute reliable power to the national grid.CC BY 3.0 IGOACCESS TO ELECTRICITYAPPROACHAVAILABILITYAVERAGE COSTSAVERAGE TARIFFBACKUP POWERBALANCEBENCHMARKBENCHMARKSBIDDING PROCESSBLACKOUTSBLOCK TARIFFSBORDER TRADEBORDER TRANSMISSIONBOTTOM LINECAPACITY CHARGESCAPACITY UTILIZATIONCAPITAL COSTSCAPITAL FLOWSCAPITAL INVESTMENTSCARBON DIOXIDECARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONSCHEAPER POWERCLIMATE CHANGECOALCOAL GENERATIONCOAL RESERVESCOGENERATIONCOMMERCIAL BANKSCOMMERCIAL EFFICIENCYCOMPETITION IN GENERATIONCOMPETITIVENESSCONCESSIONCONCESSION CONTRACTCONCESSIONSCONSUMERSCONSUMPTION OF ELECTRICITYCOST OF POWERCOST RECOVERYCOSTS OF POWERCUSTOMER SERVICEDEBTDEVALUATIONDEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCEDIESELDISECONOMIES OF SCALEDISTRIBUTION LOSSESDISTRIBUTION NETWORKDIVESTITUREDOMESTIC ENERGYDOMESTIC ENERGY RESOURCESDOMESTIC GASDOMINANT FUELECONOMIC COSTSECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTECONOMIC EFFECTSECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMIC OUTLOOKECONOMIES OF SCALEELECTRIC POWERELECTRICAL POWERELECTRICITYELECTRICITY BILLELECTRICITY CONSUMPTIONELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTUREELECTRICITY PRICESELECTRICITY PRODUCTIONELECTRICITY REGULATORELECTRICITY SERVICESELECTRICITY SUPPLYELECTRIFICATIONENERGY CRISISENERGY RESERVESENERGY RESOURCESEXPORTSFINANCIAL CLOSUREFINANCIAL VIABILITYFOSSILFOSSIL FUELSFUELGAS PRODUCTIONGAS RESOURCESGDPGDP PER CAPITAGENERATING CAPACITYGENERATIONGENERATION ASSETSGENERATION CAPACITYGENERATION COSTSGENERATION SYSTEMSGENERATORGENERATORSGRID POWERGROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTGROSS FIXED CAPITAL FORMATIONGROWTH RATESHEAVY FUEL OILHYDROELECTRIC POTENTIALHYDROPOWERINCOMEINCOME GROUPSINDEPENDENT POWER PRODUCERSINDEPENDENT REGULATIONINEFFICIENCYINFRASTRUCTURE SERVICESINTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDINGINTERNATIONAL FINANCEINVESTMENT CLIMATEINVESTMENT FUNDSINVESTMENT PROGRAMKILOWATT HOURLABOR RELATIONSLEASE CONTRACTMANAGEMENT CONTRACTORSMANAGEMENT CONTRACTSMARGINAL COSTMARKET RATESMIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIESNATURAL GASNATURAL GAS GENERATIONNUCLEAR POWERNUCLEAR POWER PLANTNUMBER OF CUSTOMERSOILOIL PRICESOIL PRODUCTIONOIL RESERVESOUTSOURCINGPERFORMANCE CONTRACTSPERFORMANCE INDICATORSPERFORMANCE TARGETSPOOR HOUSEHOLDSPOWERPOWER CAPACITYPOWER COSTSPOWER CRISISPOWER DEMANDPOWER DEVELOPMENTPOWER DISTRIBUTIONPOWER GENERATIONPOWER GRIDPOWER MARKETSPOWER OUTAGESPOWER PLANTSPOWER POOLSPOWER PRICESPOWER PRICINGPOWER PRODUCERSPOWER PROJECTPOWER PROJECTSPOWER PURCHASEPOWER SECTORPOWER SECTOR PLANNINGPOWER SECTOR REFORMPOWER SECTORSPOWER SHORTAGESPOWER SUPPLIESPOWER SUPPLYPOWER SYSTEMPOWER SYSTEMSPOWER UTILITIESPRESSURE REGULATORSPRICE DIFFERENTIALPRICE INCREASESPRICE OF POWERPRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATIONPRODUCTIVITYPUBLIC INVESTMENTPUBLIC PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURERELIABILITY OF SUPPLYRETAIL COMPETITIONREVENUE COLLECTIONSOLAR ENERGYSTATE-OWNED UTILITIESSUPPLY CHAINTHERMAL CAPACITYTHERMAL POWERTOTAL COSTSTRANSMISSION LINESUTILITIESUTILITY CUSTOMERSVOLTAGEWorld Bank10.1596/7833