Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title:  Côte d’Ivoire’s Electricity Challenge in 2050: Reconciling Economic Development and Climate Commitments
Number: e3835241-604d-402e-9643-06b52f96755c
Handle: RePEc:avg:wpaper:en13311
Publication-Status: Published in Research Papers
Author-Name: Edi Assoumou,
Author-Name: Florent Mc Isaac
Abstract: In closing its economic gap with emerging markets, Côte d’Ivoire will face a substantial increase in electricity demand over the next three decades. Côte d’Ivoire has signed the Paris Agreement that aims to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources, including electricity, and absorption by sinks of green-house gases in the second half of the century. This paper develops a forward-looking tool to explore electricity technology investment paths compatible with both rapidly increasing electricity demand and the Paris Agreement. We build a TIMES model for Côte d’Ivoire and run scenarios with two sets of reasonable assumptions that represent two competing and probable visions of the future costs of coal and photovoltaic technologies. 
Creation-Date: 2021-11-15
File-URL: https://www.afd.fr/sites/afd/files/2021-11-11-56-28/Research%20Paper%20223%20web.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Keywords: Côte d'Ivoire
Classification-JEL: Q
Length: 33