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Africa Power Pool (SAPP), and West Africa Power Pool (WAPP). They are
specialized agencies in their Regional Economic Communities (REC), and are
tasked to facilitate and provide electricity trade within each pool. The power
pools serve as an energy optimization and safety mechanism for their
members. Among the five pools, CAPP is generating mostly from hydropower
(77%), while the other four pools mostly rely on fossil fuels. Much
infrastructural and political efforts have been put into these initiatives, and it
is expected that they will play a greater role in creating uniformed energy
markets and accelerated power trade among regional partners. For example,
in SAPP alone, member countries have signed 28 bilateral agreements for their
Short Term Electricity Market and Day Ahead Market. In recent years, the
power pools not only work to enhance their internal structure, but have also
started to collaborate on intercontinental levels. CAPP is also working with
SAPP in creating 3,800 kilometres of electricity transmission lines, linking the
two pools via Angola. COMELEC also works with Middle East and Europe,
through Egypt and Morocco. It is estimated that, when the full energy
integration scenario is achieved in 2040, the power pools would save Africa
US$ 43 billion annually on their energy bills [4]. This is correct approach to
take to improve Africa’s electricity generation and distribution capacities.

Figure 1. Change of electricity generation growth per capita, 1980 - 2015

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration; United Nations Population Division.

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