Since 2017, TBI has been working on the regional energy markets in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Notable among the works of TBI is the West Africa Trade Outlook produced in 2019. In this report, an analysis of the market conditions at which ECOWAS countries could benefit from power trade was done. This study highlighted those 14 countries could enjoy from $32 bn of trading benefits during the following decade, if energy could be freely exchanged among themselves. At the same time, regional integration would also bring an environmental dividend: 23 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030 compared with a Business As Usual scenario. This would be an important achievement (it is equal to the annual emissions of the entire diesel vehicle fleet of the United Kingdom) in an international context that applies more and more pressure on Governments to limit their carbon emission.

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For these reasons, in West Africa TBI increased its commitment to accelerate the needed...