Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Resilience of the Eastern African electricity sector to climate driven changes in hydropower generation

  • Vignesh Sridharan,
  • Oliver Broad,
  • Abhishek Shivakumar,
  • Mark Howells,
  • Brent Boehlert,
  • David G. Groves,
  • H-Holger Rogner,
  • Constantinos Taliotis,
  • James E. Neumann,
  • Kenneth M. Strzepek,
  • Robert Lempert,
  • Brian Joyce,
  • Annette Huber-Lee,
  • Raffaello Cervigni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08275-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Hydropower generation in the Nile River Basin is vulnerable to climatic changes. Here, the authors assess infrastructure resilience of the Eastern African power pool (EAPP) to the effects of a changing climate and suggest that failing to climate-proof infrastructure investments can result in significant electricity price fluctuations.