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Power Ahead: Meeting Ethiopia's Energy Needs Under a Changing Climate

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  • Paul Block
  • Kenneth Strzepek

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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.

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  • Paul Block & Kenneth Strzepek, 2011. "Power Ahead: Meeting Ethiopia's Energy Needs Under a Changing Climate," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2011-090, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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