Wind Power Potentials in Cameroon and Nigeria: Lessons from South Africa

Energies

Jorge Alfredo Ardila-Rey¹  Álvaro Jaramillo Duque²  Abdullahi Abubakar Mas’ud³  Ricardo Albarracín⁴  Asan Vernyuy Wirba⁵  Abu Bakar Munir⁶  Firdaus Muhammad-Sukki⁷  Nurul Aini Bani⁸ 

[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Santiago de Chile 8940000, Chile;Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Antioquia, Cl. 67 53 - 108, 050010 Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia;Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Jubail Industrial College, P.O. Box 10099, Jubail Industrial City 31261, Saudi Arabia;Department of Electrical, Electronic and Automation Engineering and Applied Physics, Senior Technical School of Engineering and Industrial Design (ETSIDI), Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM),Ronda de Valencia 3, 28012 Madrid, Spain;Department of Management and Information Technology, Jubail Industrial College, P.O. Box 10099, Jubail Industrial City 31261, Saudi Arabia;Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia;School of Engineering, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen AB10 7GJ, UK;UTM Razak School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 54100, Malaysia;

关键词: renewable energy;    wind power;    Cameroon;    Nigeria;    South Africa;   

DOI  :  10.3390/en10040443

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Wind energy has seen a tremendous growth for electricity generation worldwide and reached 456 GWby the end of June 2016. According to the World Wind Energy Association, global wind power will reach 500 GW by the end of 2016. Africa is a continent that possesses huge under-utilized wind potentials. Some African countries, e.g., Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and South Africa, have already adopted wind as an alternative power generation source in their energy mix. Among these countries, South Africa has invested heavily in wind energy with operational wind farms supplying up to 26,000 GWh annually to the national grid. However, two African countries, i.e., Cameroon and Nigeria, have vast potentials, but currently are lagging behind in wind energy development. For Nigeria, there is slowimplementation of renewable energy policy, with no visible operational wind farms; while Cameroon does not have any policy plan for wind power. These issues are severely hindering both direct foreign and local investments into the electricity sector. Cameroon and Nigeria have huge wind energy potentials with similar climatic conditions and can benefit greatly from the huge success recorded in South Africa in terms of policy implementation, research, development and technical considerations. Therefore, this paper reviews the wind energy potentials, policies and future renewable energy road-maps in Cameroon and Nigeria and identifies their strength and weakness, as well as providing necessary actions for future improvement that South Africa has already adopted.

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