Solar versus Combined Cycle Electricity Generation in Capital Constrained African Economies: Which is Greener?
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Keywords
Electricity Generation; Cost–Benefit Analysis; Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L94 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Electric Utilities
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2014-02-02 (Africa)
- NEP-ENE-2014-02-02 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2014-02-02 (Environmental Economics)
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