283 GW - Somalia’s Offshore Wind Power potential - World Bank
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To put it in perspective, the UK, Italy and Spain generate between the 260 to 290GW with all of their power plants, be it coal, nuclear, wind and solar combined. A country like Somalia would see amazing growth with even a 20 GW grid powering every corner of the country.
Dalac Bilaash
☠ Emperor of The Horn ☠
If we achieve free electricity, the country will develop faster because many industries will open and spring up without having to worry about paying expensive electricity costs.
Keep it a boqol
VIP
puntland should privately fund this project like they did for garacad
Dalac Bilaash
☠ Emperor of The Horn ☠
Meanwhile South Africa,Nigeria and Kenya can't even provide 24h electricity
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Somalia could justify massive wind power projects by selling GWs to other countries. The total potential is more than THREE times that of the proposed Inga Dam of the Congo (70GW) where multiple countries have already shown interest in purchasing GWs.
Our advantage is Somalia’s pristine location at the gateways of multiple booming geographic zones; Africa, the Middle-East, Asia and with the continuous advancement of submarine cable technology perhaps even Europe.
Submarine power cables connecting the wind and solar farms of Somalia with the grids of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and India or overland transmission cables connecting with the whole of Northeast Africa and Southeastern Africa would net Somalia hundreds of billions of dollars through the export of renewable energy.
We really missed our chance not getting filthy rich from the Oil boom of the last sixty years, the profits from that era could have funded a pi to renewables independently and without falling into debt.
As for the future, each time the Federal or a regional government establishes a wind or solar farm it should directly power an important factory, industrial park or processing facility in the region like a Salt or Cement plant so the profits could be reinvested into new projects, while the surplus energy could be transferred to the national and regional grids.
This is how normal countries work.
Our advantage is Somalia’s pristine location at the gateways of multiple booming geographic zones; Africa, the Middle-East, Asia and with the continuous advancement of submarine cable technology perhaps even Europe.
Submarine power cables connecting the wind and solar farms of Somalia with the grids of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and India or overland transmission cables connecting with the whole of Northeast Africa and Southeastern Africa would net Somalia hundreds of billions of dollars through the export of renewable energy.
We really missed our chance not getting filthy rich from the Oil boom of the last sixty years, the profits from that era could have funded a pi to renewables independently and without falling into debt.
As for the future, each time the Federal or a regional government establishes a wind or solar farm it should directly power an important factory, industrial park or processing facility in the region like a Salt or Cement plant so the profits could be reinvested into new projects, while the surplus energy could be transferred to the national and regional grids.
This is how normal countries work.
* - “pivot to renewables independently…”
hayran
Ride The Lightning
the demand for FF likely isn't going anywhere, the manufacturing of green tech requires....... OIL!
Yes, but the oil profits were incredible in the last six decades. It allowed war ravaged countries like Angola for example to leap frog the rest of Africa in just two decades, while a city like Dubai was just a desert in the 1970s but today is a Alpha+ City.
Emir of Zayla
𝕹𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝕻𝖔𝖊𝖙𝖘
Oil will never disappear in use, in fact it’ll only get more demand in the future. We still can catch the Oil boom after we stabilize Somalia
Emir of Zayla
𝕹𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝕻𝖔𝖊𝖙𝖘
So we basically get mass foreign investment by promising electricity to our neighboring regions in Middle East and Africa?
