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SWOT analysis for the development of photovoltaic solar power in Africa in comparison with China
Environmental Impact Assessment Review ( IF 6.122 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2019.04.005 Yu Lei , Xi Lu , Mai Shi , Lei Wang , Hongyan Lv , Sirui Chen , Chengyu Hu , Qinghua Yu , Serafim Dias Henriques da Silveira
Environmental Impact Assessment Review ( IF 6.122 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2019.04.005 Yu Lei , Xi Lu , Mai Shi , Lei Wang , Hongyan Lv , Sirui Chen , Chengyu Hu , Qinghua Yu , Serafim Dias Henriques da Silveira
Abstract Development of solar power becomes a necessary measure to combat global climate change and local environmental pollution in the world. In Africa, solar power resource is abundant, and deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) offers a new opportunity for both economic growth and low-carbon development. Using an approach of SWOT analysis, we investigate the internal strengths and weaknesses, and the external opportunities and threats for PV solar power development in Africa. Particularly, factors are examined and discussed for African countries in terms of their internal strengths of rich solar resource, vast land, suitable application for distributed PV power systems; their weaknesses of small scale of renewable energy investment, shortness of foundation for the PV industrial chain, insufficient awareness of social and environmental benefits of solar PV; their external opportunities of increasing gap between energy supply and demand, raising global awareness of Climate Change, rapid decrease of PV price, as well as their external threats of dominant position of the fossil fuels, potential environmental impacts related to the solar PV development, and discontinuity of energy policies. The analysis particularly emphasizes on a new opportunity for African countries to develop their solar power resource through mutually beneficial cooperation between Africa and China within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
更新日期：2019-07-01
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