At a glance

Wood and charcoal dominates the domestic energies for cooking and heating, throughout the country and biomass represented 94% of the final energy consumption in 2011. 

However, he Central African Republic has a good endowment in renewable energies, especially biomass and hydro, but also solar. Hydropower represent more than half of the installed capacity in the country (the rest being diesel). Renewable energies are limited by many factors, including an inadequate institutional and legal framework, insufficient planning and coordination, internal capacity, lack of financing. Energy efficiency measures are also limited by a lack of a proper institutional framework. 

The Central African Republic prepared a SEforALL Gap Analysis / Rapid Assessment, that provisionally indicated a 50% access rate to electricity to be reached by 2030. 

Location

Map of Central African Republic
SEforALL Action Agenda Objectives2030
Electricity Access, nationaln.a.
Access to clean cooking, national n.a.
Renewable Energy Outputn.a.
Renewable Energy Consumptionn.a.
Energy Efficiencyn.a.
Country Action DocumentsStatus
Rapid Assessment Finalized
Action Agenda n.a.
Investment Prospectusn.a.

Country statistics

Series2010201220142016
Access to electricity (% of population)9.8%11.6%12.8%14%
Urban (% of urban population)24.9%29%31.6%34.1%
Rural (% of rural population)1.7%0.4%0.4%0.4%
Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking (% of population)0.8%0.8%0.9%1%
Population, total4.4 Million4.6 Million4.8 Million4.6 Million
Renewable energy consumption (% of total final energy consumption)79.8%78.0%77.2%-
Renewable electricity output (% of total electricity output)84.4%84.7%85.8%-
Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)----
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