Opportunities for Power Trade in the Nile Basin : Final Scoping Study

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: BILATERAL TRADE;    BULK POWER;    COMMERCIAL ENERGY;    CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK;    CONSUMERS;   

RP-ID  :  ESM277

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The Nile riparian countries establishedthe Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) in February 1999. The NBI isa transitional mechanism that provides an agreed frameworkto fight poverty and promote economic development.Thisstudy, reviews the opportunities for power trade in the NileBasin countries (based on experience from other regions ofthe world), identifies the potential benefits of power tradeat different stages of market development and barriers toregional power trade. The study is structured in fourchapters: (i) an overview of the power sectors of the 10Nile Basin countries and different types of power trade;(ii) potential for power trade based on the characteristicsof the Nile Basin in terms of resource endowments, energybalances, existing generation and transmission facilities,and present and future demand and supply; (iii) scope forpower trade in the Nile Basin; and (iv) framework fordeveloping power trade.