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The Southern African Power Pool: An Electrifying Project with Untapped Potential

2017

This chapter turns to infrastructure and gives an outstanding analysis of regional electricity cooperation in the SADC within the framework of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP). The author illustrates the regional power imbalances in terms of national electricity generation and consumption which fuel the SADC countries’ demand for a regional electricity market and an interconnected regional power grid. It becomes clear that the SAPP’s institutional design is strongly influenced by South Africa as the hub of the existing power network and largest electricity producer. Influence by external actors is supportive of regional electricity cooperation since the EU provides funding for the SAP…

Consumption (economics)Electricity generationbusiness.industryNatural resource economicsInstitutional designEnvironmental resource managementPower poolElectricity marketBusinessElectricityGridRegional power
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