STATUS OF INTERNATIONAL INTERCONNECTIONS AND ELECTRICITY DEREGULATION IN AFRICA

摘要

The paper reviews the present status and future prospect of international interconnections, infrastructure, electricity exchanges, and deregulation in Africa from the viewpoint of generation and transmission development, global deregulation trends and policies, development of a competitive market for regional electricity cross-border trading, and status of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) Electricity Grid System interconnection. In particular, the case of the Southern Africa Power Pool in developing a competitive market for regional electricity cross border trading; GCC Electricity Grid System interconnections; and economic benefits and strategic new international transmission in the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP), are some of the topics that are presented and discussed in this paper.