TITLE:
Renewable Energies in Africa, Context and Socio-Economic Challenge
AUTHORS:
Daouda Oubda, Soumaïla Ouédraogo, Alain Diasso, Marcel Bawindsom Kébré, François Zougmoré, Zacharie Koalga, Frédéric Ouattara
KEYWORDS:
Africa, Renewable Energy, Photovoltaic Solar Energy, Semiconductor, Socio-Economic, Urban Area, Rural Area
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.12 No.11,
November
22,
2022
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we have shown that Africa has an enormous wealth of
renewable energy resources among the most important in the world such as the
strong sunshine, Congo and Nile Rivers respectively among the most powerful and
the longest in the world. We have underlined the presence of important forests,
rich subsoil in mineral elements, and strong winds. In addition to a rapidly
growing human capital, Africa, therefore, has at its disposal all the factors enabling it to initiate sustainable and inclusive
socio-economic development. We have shown that the transformation of these
renewable energies is an opportunity for Africa to reach its socio-economic
challenges. The development of renewable energies in Africa will be a source of
many financial benefits and advantages both in terms of improving living
conditions and carrying out activities. The electrical supply of rural areas of
Africa represents a considerable issue, which can be a propellant factor in
long-term socio-economic development if the conditions of use of clean fuel and
cooking technologies, especially sanitary are taken into account. The provision
of modern energy services can contribute to the creation of jobs for young
people upstream. Among other things, we can note the development of local
skills, the creation of income-generating activities, and the improvement of
hygiene and health measures which are necessary conditions for family and
social well-being. This requires a policy focused, on research in general and
in particular on semiconductors that participate in the transformation of
photovoltaic solar energy. We have stressed that Africa which is currently
experiencing a period of economic growth and sustained transformation must be
very looking at in its energy policy and give pride of place to renewable
energies to initiate sustainable socio-economic development, equitable and
inclusive different social strata both in rural areas and urban areas.