To that end, the government is involved in the construction of a terminal with a floating storage and re-gasification unit (FSRU) in Vridi, south of Abidjan, with a capacity of 3 million tons per year, and a pipeline connecting the FSRU to existing and planned power plants in Abidjan.
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Does Cote d'Ivoire have electricity?
Most of Cote d'Ivoire's primary energy demand is covered by local oil refinery supplies and domestic gas production. Almost 60% of the population had access to electricity in the country in 2017, a 10-percentage point's increase from 2015.
We develop a TIMES model of the electricity sector for Côte d'Ivoire that provides least-cost solutions for power systems. Our estimates show that electricity demand could increase by a factor of 4.5 by 2050. Least cost solutions show that solar PV could provide at least 18% of total electricity generation in 2050.
In the same period, annual consumption per capita went from 174 KWh to 277 KWh (AIE, 2014; A NARE-CI, 2017). However, as of 2014, per capita consumption in Côte d'Ivoire is 43% lower than the average for sub-Saharan Africa and 91% lower than the world average.
Will Côte d'Ivoire have a low-cost solar system?
In the case of a low-cost solar scenario, PV capacity is up to 24 GW and storage is nearly 15 GW between 2030 and 2050. In closing its economic gap with emerging markets, Côte d'Ivoire will face a substantial increase in electricity demand over the next three decades.
How much gas does Côte d'Ivoire have?
According to CIA (2020); Foxtrot international, 2007; IEA (2020), Côte d'Ivoire has 28.32 billion cubic meters of remaining gas reserves located in the southern part of the country. Most of this gas is used by the electricity sector. However, at the current rate of exploitation, the existing gas deposits could be exhausted by 2030.
These aspects are left for further research. This coal-fired power plant is expected to be the first ever built in Côte d'Ivoire. Note that the implicit price of carbon for the other scenarios is not worth studying because they show CO 2 emissions in 2050 below the Paris Agreement target.