Low-Carbon Energy in Africa and Latin America
Renewable Technologies, Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy
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Ricardo Guerrero-Lemus
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Executive Summary
Energy consumption in Africa and Latin America has grown at a rate greater than the total energy consumption worldwide since 1980, consuming nearly 10% of the total global energy and ~20% of global renewable e...
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Geothermal Energy
This chapter shows that geothermal electricity provides a small amount of electricity in Africa and Latin America. That is consistent with global trends, and that capacity is being developed in many countries ...
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Biofuels
This chapter shows that liquid biofuels are used in the transportation sector in Africa and Latin America and as an alternative cooking fuel option in Africa. In the transportation sector, biofuel production i...
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Natural Gas
This chapter shows that Africa and Latin America have substantial proven reserves of natural gas, and quite homogeneously located in both regions. Natural gas is playing an increasingly prominent role in the d...
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Current Energy Context in Africa and Latin America
This chapter shows that energy consumption in Africa and Latin America has grown at a rate greater than the total energy consumption worldwide since 1980, consuming nearly 10% of the total global energy and ~2...
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Biomass for Heating and Power Production
This chapter shows how biomass is the predominant fuel for many less developed African and Latin American countries. Nearly 38% of the world population (2014) relies on biomass for cooking, largely in rural ar...
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Solar Thermal Energy for Heating, Cooling and Power
This chapter shows that solar thermal energy is growing moderately around the world in part because solar photovoltaics is acting as a very competitive alternative in terms of costs and O&M. There is a signifi...
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Wind Energy
This chapter shows that wind energy is an established technology for producing low cost electricity in Africa and Latin America. However, these regions contribute less than 5% of the total global wind producti...
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Waste-to-Energy
This chapter shows that municipal and other waste forms make a significant contribution to GHG emissions and have an adverse impact on other environmental factors (e.g., health, water quality, air, etc.) in th...
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Nuclear Energy
This chapter shows that there are nine nuclear reactors located in Africa and Latin America with two in South Africa (1830 MW), three in Argentina (1627 MW), two in Mexico (1620 MW), and two in Brazil (1891 MW...
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General Description
Africa and Latin America possess tremendous potential for significant growth of renewable energy. Much of this potential is derived from access to large land areas with more than 37% of the combined global sur...
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Power Grids
This chapter shows that the electricity mix in Africa and Latin America is highly varied but is typically tied directly to endogenous resources controlled by individual nations. While much of the electricity i...
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Photovoltaics
Solar photovoltaic (PV) production in Africa and Latin America combined comprise less than 3% of the total global photovoltaic energy production in spite of the solar resources located across these regions. Ho...
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Hydropower and Marine Energy
In this chapter it is shown how hydropower plays an extraordinarily important role in the energy future of both Africa and Latin America. Thus, more than 20% of total global hydropower generation occurs in Afr...
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Renewable Energies and CO2
Cost Analysis, Environmental Impacts and Technological Trends- 2012 Edition
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Executive Summary
The Energy Technology Perspectives 2012 survey of the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights that limiting global temperature rise to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels is technically feasible, if timely a...
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Concentrated Solar Power
After photovoltaics (PV), concentrating solar power (CSP) is at present the major technology for producing solar electricity. Generally, CSP uses concentrating high-reflective mirrors to generate high-temperat...
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Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy can be used either to generate base-load electricity with very high capacity factors and independent of seasonal conditions or to provide space heating and cooling in buildings. Globally, the...
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Hydropower
Hydropower is by large the main contributor to electricity production of all renewable resources. Hydropower is a very mature technology for the production of electricity at very competitive prices; furthermor...
