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"The real story — the one about real people — is the mind-blowing chasm of global energy inequality... Californians’ pools and video games actually consume more electricity than many entire countries." ht @toddjmoss onezero.medium.com/global-energy-… Image
A fridge running for ten days already uses more electricty than the avg Nigerian uses for an entire year. Per capita electricity across Africa v. global averages illustrate the necessity of building abundant & reliable electricity. bruegel.org/wp-content/upl… Image
Electricity use can be predicted accurately (R^2 = 0.84 !) by a country's GDP per capita. Roughly $6 per kWh. ht @toddjmoss cgdev.org/blog/do-africa…
Global electricity inequality is a tale of two continents: Asian convergence & African divergence. Decisions on financing & building infrastructure in Africa will be made in the fossil-fueled offices of Washington, London, Paris & Beijing. @adam_tooze resourcewatch.org/data/explore?z… Image
Only S Africa has large coal deposits in Africa. Fossil electrification trajectory in sub-saharan african & non-G20 will probably continue to be off-grid 𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙡
generators. Their current capacity? ~350-500GW. Equivalent to hundreds of Coal plants. ifc.org/wps/wcm/connec… ImageImage
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