Why Zambia’s System of Energy Provision Did Not Prevent the Power Outages of 2015 and 2016

Imaduddin Ahmed ()
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Imaduddin Ahmed: University College London

Chapter Chapter 5 in The Political Economy of Hydropower Dependant Nations, 2021, pp 145-206 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Several causes contributed to the power outages of 2015 and 2016. Increasing transmission and distribution losses was one of them. Another was Zambia’s almost complete lack of resilience to droughts, as well increased demand and little change in supply since the World Bank had invested in Zambia’s hydropower. Path dependence explains why Zambia’s system of energy provision did not heed warnings that severe drought was becoming increasingly likely, and act with greater urgency to ensure diversification from hydropower in the Zambezi River Basin. Path dependence explains why Zambia’s system of energy provision did not charge a tariff to end-consumers that would allow for the funding of additional and climate-resilient baseload power generation assets.

Keywords: Energy policy; El Niño; Hydropower dependency; Energy insecurity; Food-water-energy nexus; Path dependence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71266-2_5

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