Abstract
Major new opportunities abound from energy integration among regions in Africa with the sole aim of reducing transaction costs and with the role of ICT, it would take energy from where it is easily affordable to places where it is needed. This study takes on a new perspective, that is, employing household energy consumption, to ascertain the use of ICT by household in accessing energy. The study explores the degree to which energy integration among the five regional power pools in Africa can achieve ending energy poverty among regional adherents. The study utilizes the Pooled Ordinary Least Squares technique on data from the SSA economies over the period 2000-2019. The study confirms the viability of the ICT adoption – Energy Consumption hypothesis statistically at five (5) percent level of significance. More specifically, the findings show that a one-unit increase in household mobile technology will lead to an average of 1.4 unit increase in energy consumption. The findings indicate that the adoption of such mobile technology impacts energy consumption, which suggests the need for the acceleration of ICT development in Africa (Sub-Saharan) nations, given the universal communal mission of sustainable energy consumption.
Highlights
Towards a way of supportable advancement for Africa, bearings prompting clean energy have become clearer for strategy making
The pace of electrification has almost tripled between the years 2000 and 2012, and in 2014, power efforts surpassed growth for the first time as 50% Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) population do not have access to electricity making it the largest concentration of people in the world without electricity access as explained through the International Energy Agency shown in Figure 1: SSA is becoming aware of the importance of investment in sustainable clean energy establishments as opposed to the customary enormous scope frameworks as appeared in Table 1, which depend for the most part on oil and coal
The study was enthused by the argument on the importance Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the energy sector
Summary
Towards a way of supportable advancement for Africa, bearings prompting clean energy have become clearer for strategy making. As a model of advancement, it accentuates an improvement procedure that coordinates energy worries in objective seven into financial and social goals to guarantee that group of people yet to come have adequate assets for their turn of events. Shutting the power hole in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a multidimensional assignment with focal ramifications for how to outline the district’s energy issue in general (Hilty et al, 2010; Avila et al, 2017). The Africa Union perceives this potential and expectations that Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement will go far toward accomplishing its objective of 20% ozone harming substance decrease by 2030 by showing ICT for energy effectiveness through energy mix among the different Power Pools (Houghton, 2014). Joined Nations has ordered 12 ICT-put together advancements with potential contact with
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