Power ahead: Meeting Ethiopia's energy needs under a changing climate

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Ethiopia is powering ahead with an ambitious energy development strategy, highly reliant on abundant hydropower potential. A changing climate, including uncertain water supply, however, may pose a salient challenge to meeting expected targets. Bridging the modeling gaps between climate, energy, and economics, and effectively transforming climate changes into economic measures, is an emerging inter-disciplinary field as nations attempt to position themselves for an uncertain future. Such a framework is adopted here to assess energy production and adaptation costs for four climate change scenarios over 2010 - 49. Scenarios that favor a drying trend country-wide may lead to losses of 130 - 200 terawatt hours over the 40-year period, translating to adaptation costs of US$ 2 - 4 billion, compared to a no climate change scenario. Even given these potential losses, energy development utilizing hydropower appears economically reasonable from this deterministic, sector-independent evaluation. This development is desperately needed, independent of future climate change trends, with the hope of appreciably reducing vulnerability to variability.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2011/90

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: Water ; Energy and the Macroeconomy ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
• Thema: Ethiopia ; energy development ; hydropower ; climate change ; economics

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Block, Paul ; Strzepek, Kenneth
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/81023
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ