African power plants - Installed capacity (MW)

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Signatory cities and municipalities of Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa. Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA) initiative supports Sub-Saharan cities in their fight against climate change and in their efforts in ensuring access to clean energy. Started in 2015, the initiative is shaped by local authorities for the local authorities to reflect the local context and specifics. In order to translate the political commitment into practical measures, CoM SSA signatories commit to produce and implement a Sustainable Energy Access and Climate Action Plan (SEACAP).

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Energy Water (Energy Production in country (MWh)): Energy Water (Total hydro power installed capacity in country (MW)): Country boundaries: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/countries#countries16

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Energy Water Plants (Installed capacity (MW)): Compilation of multiple databases: PLATTS [1], Energydata.info 2012 [2], WRI 2018 [3], Harvard 2010 [4]. [1] S&P Global Platts. World electric power plants database; 2016. https://www.platts.com/products/world-electric-power-plants-database. [2] Energydata.info. Africa – Power stations; 2012. https://energydata.info/en/dataset/africa-power-stations-2012. [3] WRI. Global power plants database; 2018. https://www.wri.org/publication/ global-power-plant-database. [4] Harvard. Africa power plants; 2010. http://worldmap.harvard.edu/data/geonode:africa_power_plants_gd4.

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Energy Water Plants (Water loss through evaporation from reservoir allocated to hydropower aggregated by plant ID based on ratios (mcm)): Compilation of multiple databases: PLATTS [1], Energydata.info 2012 [2], WRI 2018 [3], Harvard 2010 [4]. [1] S&P Global Platts. World electric power plants database; 2016. https://www.platts.com/products/world-electric-power-plants-database. [2] Energydata.info. Africa – Power stations; 2012. https://energydata.info/en/dataset/africa-power-stations-2012. [3] WRI. Global power plants database; 2018. https://www.wri.org/publication/ global-power-plant-database. [4] Harvard. Africa power plants; 2010. http://worldmap.harvard.edu/data/geonode:africa_power_plants_gd4.

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Energy Water (Reservoir area associated to plants in country (sqkm)): Country boundaries: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/countries#countries16

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Energy Water Reservoirs (Water loss through evaporation (mcm)): Reservoir surfaces derived from Global Surface Water data, Yearly Classification (version 1.1) [1] Evaporation rates were modelled using LISVAP [6] based on ERA5 data. [2] [1] EC JRC/Google. JRC yearly water classification history, V.1.1; n.d. https:// developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/JRC_GSW1_1_YearlyHistory [accessed October 5, 2019]. [2] Copernicus Climate Change Service. ERA5: Fifth generation of ECMWF atmospheric reanalyses of the global climate. Copernicus Clim Chang Serv Clim Data Store; 2017. https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/home [accessed August 12, 2019].

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Energy Water (Total hydro power installed capacity in country (MW)): Country boundaries: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/countries#countries16

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Optimized PV/battery mini-grids size (kWh)

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Yearly average global irradiance on an optimally inclined surface (W/m2) . Solar radiation data consists of the average irradiance over the time period 2005-2015 , taking into account both day and night-time, measured in W/m2.

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This map was made for the World Bank's World Development Report 2009 Reshaping Economic Geography. As economies grow from low to high income, production becomes more concentrated spatially. Some places—cities, coastal areas, and connected countries—are favored by producers. ... The way to get both the immediate benefits of concentration of production and the long-term benefits of a convergence in living standards is economic integration." (WDR 2009, Overview). For measuring the concentration of economic activity, instead of using binary distinctions of rural versus urban, the report takes advantage of global accessibility measures which can be combined with data on population density to create a much finer typology which is termed the Agglomeration Index (AI). The global map of travel time to major cities (cities of 50,000 or more people in year 2000) is a useful dataset in its own right, but it is also a component of the AI.

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