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Get PriceSolar home systems might be considered "kick starters" towards electricity access because they can only support limited lighting and some basic functions like mobile phone
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Established a national-scale electricity plan for the period 2020–2030 for Malawi. Data on potential electricity demand for the future is a fundamental necessity for forecasting and setting up the national grid extension. The lack of data in Malawi has resulted in the existence of enormously sparse literature on electricity demand modeling.
Like most of the sub-Saharan African countries, access to electricity in Malawi is a persistent and biggest challenge faced by the population. According to the population census of 2018 conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO), access to electricity in Malawi was at 11 % to a population of about 18 million people (NSO, 2018).
For the Low Case Scenario, the access to electricity in the urban areas is expected to grow to a level not higher than 70 % in 2030. This is based on the historical trend of electricity access in Malawi. The percentage of access to electricity urban and rural households was derived by the following Eq. (1) (Saha et al., 2015).
For cooking, 77.4 % of Malawi's population uses firewood, 18.2 % uses charcoal, 1.9 % uses electricity, 0.3 % uses paraffin, and 2.9 % uses other means such as crop residues, animal dung, and those not highlighted above. Malawi's gross annual energy demand was about 155,775 TJ, with biomass accounting for 88.5 % of this energy demand.
Table 11 shows the growth of Malawi's installed capacity as new (likely) power projects come on the grid. It is expected that between 2020 and 2030 power supply capacity will be increased from 522 MW to 1473 MW respectively from both EGENCO/GoM Power Supply Projects and private developers.
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