African and Middle East Energy Development and Power Generation - Status of Renewable Energy Projects, Sustainability of Infrastructure, Large and Small-Scale Developments, and Joint Venture and Cross-Border Projects

摘要

On behalf of the Energy Development and Power Generation Committee, welcome to this Panel Session on African and Middle East Energy Development and Power Generation -Electricity Infrastructure: Status of Renewable Energy Projects, Sustainability of Infrastructure, Large and Small-scale Developments, and Joint Venture and Cross-Border Projects The Panel Session focuses on the present status and future prospect of electricity infrastructure from the viewpoint of generation and transmission development, global deregulation trends and policies, advances in global research and development and strategies to influence the integration into the global transition to knowledge based economies in Africa. The panel will therefore evaluate and update models and policies that are near term, mid term and long term. Interconnection of electric power systems of regions, states and individual territories is acquiring a growing scale of importance in world practice. Examples of this influence and studies to date will be presented. Presentations will continue to be focused on the projected development of regional power pools as a development strategy while taking into account the importance of distributed generation in this strategy. There are many benefits of this tendency that continue to be examined to influence development policies because of the so-called system effects that lead to improving economical, ecological and technological efficiencies of the joint operation of electric power systems. Modeling developing regional grids remains core to the strategy of wider institutional integration, and in particular academia where core analytical skill sets critical to knowledge base economies reside. The panel seeks to follow the paradigm that contemplates challenges of the 21st century. Africa is a very favorable region for electric power grid creation and using the above system effects on account of different levels of economic development in different countries of the region, different placement of fuel and energy resources, and consumers, etc. Therefore, the analyses of the present status and prospective trends of African Electricity interconnections and efforts to improve efficiency are very important problems. The Session presents some results of studies in this area at this time.