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Critical Raw Materials in Africa
Securing a sustainable supply of cobalt for a low-emissions and digital future
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WEFE: a delicate balance
The Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus in the Senegal River Basin
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Unleashing clean energy potential in Africa
Unleashing clean energy potential in Africa
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Clean Energy Access Prioritiser
The Clean Energy Access Prioritiser (CEAP) is an open-source decision-support tool designed to identify priority areas for clean energy interventions and investments. ...
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Annual gross water loss through evaporation from hydropower reservoirs (mcm/year
Dam-induced impoundment of water in hydropower reservoirs usually causes enlarged water surfaces compared to the waterbody extent prior to dam construction (with the exception of reservoirs constraine...
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Annual evaporation from hydropower reservoirs
Evaporation from hydropower reservoirs represents a key component of the reservoir water budget. Depending on the different climate regimes on the continent, the rate of evaporation from open water ch...
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Annual gross water loss vs annual energy production of hydropower plants (mcm/GW
In 2016, a total of 42 billion cubic meters of water was lost through evaporation in hydropower reservoirs in Africa. A huge amount compared to the 1.2 billion cubic meters lost from all the other fue...
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Installed capacities of hydropower plants
The hydropower installed capacity indicates the amount of energy a hydropower plant can produce in its turbines. In 2016, hydropower accounted for 54% of the installed capacity in Eastern Africa, 58% ...
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Europe Media Monitor News
The Europe Media Monitor (EMM) News Brief is a summary of news stories from around the world, automatically classified according to thousands of criteria. It is generated automatically every 10 minute...
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Water Occurrence (1984-2020)
Surface water affects many aspects of our world: the exchange of heat, gas and water vapour between the planet's surface and atmosphere. Water is the engine behind the distribution, movement and migra...
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Residential population
In an age of Development Agendas that call for universal inclusiveness of people, global population grids are essential to support analyses and inform policy-making in a wide range of fields, from env...
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Travel time to major cities
The world is shrinking. Cheap flights, large scale commercial shipping and expanding road networks all mean that we are better connected to everywhere else than ever before. Accessibility - whether it...
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Electricity network existing and planned
In Sub-Saharan Africa, medium- and low-voltage data are often non-existent, uncompleted, or unavailable. This is a challenge for practitioners working on the electricity access agenda, power sector re...
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Cost of electricity produced by a diesel generator
Despite a high total population, most parts of the African continent are sparsely populated, with almost 60% living in non-urban areas. Diesel generators have long been the traditional solution to dec...
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Battery Size vs Photovoltaic Array ratio (kWH/KWP) - High night-time consumption
Modern energy services are crucial to human well-being and to a country’s economic development; and yet 1.2 billion people are without access to electricity. It is recognized that the central grid is ...
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