Climate Change and Africa: Energy for development: solar home systems in Africa and global carbon emissions

摘要: A growing number of rural African households are using small solar home systems (SHSs) to obtain better access lighting, television and radio. Various non-governmental organisations, multilateral institutions international aid agencies have catalysed these markets, partially motivated by a desire reduce global carbon emissions. This chapter assesses the mitigation potential SHSs concluding that direct displacement will be limited. Indirect benefits from helping photovoltaics (PV) industry scale up production bring down costs via manufacturing experience curve larger, but still trivial relative grid-connected markets. Nonetheless, with aggressive support, 2025 could provide cost-effective basic electricity substantial share households, PV make major contribution overall needs in Africa.