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ENERGY Africa's Energy Needs, Alternative Power to the Rescue By Elvis Iyorngurum Access to energy remains a key factor in Africa's quest for development. Industrialization, education, mechanized agriculture, water supply etc, all depend on sufficient and efficient supply of electricity to thrive. For much of the continent however, access to energy remains a wish that is far-fetched. Even in the urban areas where there is considerable level of development, electricity supply is often scarce and unreliable. Many businesses depend on private power plants to run their production processes. This raises the cost of production and with the increasing influx of cheap goods from Asia they find it hard to match up to the competition and are soon pushed out of the market. This is just a little picture of how lack of energy supply is being a heavy impediment to the continent's drive for economic prosperity. The inability of governments in Africa to make electricity available and affordable to their citizens has been attributed chiefly to the high cost of electricity generation and distribution. As the governments continue to explore cheaper and safer means of generating power for their citizens, a remarkable development in their efforts is their resort to alternative sources of power generation. This is not only in conformity with world's quest for green energy, but also the continent's appreciation of its vast resources that could make it the world leader in clean and safe energy generation. Africa is indeed, demonstrating that it is an ideal location for the application of renewable energy technology. At the moment, there are already small-scale solar, wind and geothermal plants set up in many countries across the continent. The plants cater for the power needs of communities in remote places where the cost of reaching them with electricity supply from the large power stations in the urban areas. Wind and wave power are viable ways to come by alternative energy, as Africa's long coastline on the east coast has plentiful wind and wave power if properly utilized. The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank approved $150 million for a wind power project in Kenya's Lake Turkana region. Kenya's power generation capacity will grow by 300MW. This project will allow the Great Rift Valley region to be connected to the rest of the country with a road, fiber-optic cable and electrification. Morocco has launched one of the world's largest
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