{"id":387111,"date":"2025-07-05T19:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T17:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=387111"},"modified":"2025-07-05T19:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T17:22:39","slug":"africas-renewable-leapfrog-is-a-mirage-a-dangerous-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=387111","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s Renewable Leapfrog Is a Mirage\u2014A Dangerous One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A report<\/a> titled \u201cAfrican Energy Leadership: The Case for 100% Renewable Energy\u201d was published last week, claiming that \u201cAfrica could save between $3 trillion and $5 trillion by transitioning to a fully renewable energy system by 2050.\u201d This shift, it asserted, would also create up to 5.4 million new energy sector jobs, significantly more than the 3.2 million jobs projected \u201cunder current fossil fuel trajectories.\u201d This report by the environmental NGO (ENGO) Power Shift Africa<\/a> in collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney\u2019s Institute for Sustainable Futures (UTS-ISF) was launched at the Bonn Climate Conference<\/a> (SB62).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, the concept of \u201cleapfrogging<\/a>\u201d over fossil\u2011fuel development to craft a 100\u202f% renewable energy system in Africa has gained traction: bypass oil, gas and coal, build \u201cclean\u201d solar and wind farms instead, and align with the Paris Agreement\u2019s 1.5\u202f\u00b0C global warming target. Proponents point to \u201cdramatic cost reductions\u201d in solar and wind, enormous \u201ctheoretical potential\u201d and massive economic benefits with \u201cmillions of new green jobs\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And yet for all these glossy numbers, the physics, economics, and on\u2011the\u2011ground realities tell a far more sobering story. The leapfrog narrative is less a roadmap to prosperity than a vapid fig\u2011leaf for Western moral satisfaction, an exercise in a hypocritical carbon colonialism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leapfrogging is an Empty Notion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept of Africa leapfrogging to a 100% renewable energy system, bypassing conventional fossil fuels, defies the fundamental constraints of physics and economics. This has been incisively outlined by Mark P. Mills in his paper on \u201cmagical thinking<\/a>\u201d among promoters of renewable energy. Mills argues that renewables like solar and wind, despite cost declines, are inherently limited by their low energy density and intermittency, requiring vast land areas and expensive storage solutions to achieve reliability\u2014challenges magnified in Africa\u2019s context, where industrial-scale energy demand is critical for modern economic growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar and wind\u2019s capacity factors (20\u201330% in optimal conditions) cannot match the consistent, high-density output of fossil fuels, which are essential for powering heavy industry, urban infrastructure, hospitals, water treatment plants and the like. Economically, the massive capital required for grid upgrades, battery storage, and transmission interconnectors\u2014estimated at $100 billion annually for universal energy access by 2030\u2014far exceeds Africa\u2019s current 2\u20133% share of global renewable investments. Expecting renewables alone to meet Africa\u2019s energy needs ignores the physical reality of energy density and the economic impracticality of scaling intermittent sources without reliable backups. These facts render leapfrogging a fantastical notion detached from the continent\u2019s developmental imperatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental zealots in the West would deny Africa the very infrastructure that historically lifted their own societies out of poverty. For instance, a major pollution problem afflicting developing countries is the domestic combustion of solid (bio)fuels. According to the World Health Organization, 4.3 million deaths annually are directly attributable to indoor air pollution. If poor Africans remain stuck on traditional biomass cookstoves instead of gaining access to cheap propane gas or cheap and reliable grid electricity (fuelled by natural gas or coal), this annual toll will only rise. In rich countries, households moved from dung, wood and crop residue fires to coal, to oil, to gas and electricity\u2014each step up the energy ladder<\/a> improving well\u2011being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, those building blocks are blocked or actively removed by the climate zealots working via ENGOs and captive institutions<\/a> of the climate industrial complex like the World Bank and the IMF. Instead of reliable electric grids, Africa is offered solar cookstoves and humanitarian sentiment\u2014an insult in the guise of charity. As Vaclav Smil<\/a> has conclusively demonstrated, no country in the world has developed without the dense energy available from fossil fuels. Coal, oil and natural gas have powered urbanization, industrialization and agricultural productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Do African Leaders Want?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not possible to generalize across the vast continent, but some facts stand out. Africa is the world\u2019s second largest and second-most populous continent (after Asia in both aspects). Unlike Asia, Africa remains largely mired in poverty and much of the population has limited access to energy. Africa\u2019s 54 countries, 3 dependencies, and one disputed territory (Western Sahara) accounted for just over 18% of the world\u2019s population<\/a> in 2020 but its share of global primary energy consumption<\/a> amounted to only 3.4% in 2022. Poverty and poor access to energy, one suspects, are not just coincidences but reflective of a more general malaise. But what are its governments doing about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change<\/a> was established as an alliance of African member states to represent the interests of the region in international climate change negotiations with \u201ca common and unified voice\u201d. In an interview<\/a> in June 2022, the Chair of the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) on climate change, Mr. Ephraim Mwepya Shitima of Zambia, said that \u201cCOP27 should be about advancing implementation of the [UN IPCC\u2019s] National Determined Contributions (NDCs), including adaptation and mitigation efforts and delivery of finance to enhance implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, Mr. Shitima seemed to represent Africa as a supplicant for climate finance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Africa is poor and responsible for a relatively small share of global carbon dioxide emissions yet suffers from the effects of climate change. Surely the developed countries, who are responsible for most of the historical emissions, need to financially assist Africa in adapting to climate change in any equitable outcome. For its part, Africa will pursue a \u201clow carbon\u201d and \u201csustainable\u201d development trajectory.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This position, however, is far from representing a common and unified voice for the continent. In the lead up to COP27 (held in Egypt in 2023), Amani Abou-Zeid, the African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, said <\/a>that African countries advocated for \u201ca common energy position that sees fossil fuels as necessary to expanding economies and electricity access.\u201d N. J. Ayuk<\/a>, Executive Chairman at the African Energy Chamber, is even more forthright:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAfricans don\u2019t hate Oil and Gas companies. We love Oil and today we love gas even more because we know gas will give us a chance to industrialize. No country has ever been developed by fancy wind and green hydrogen. Africans see Oil and Gas as a path to success and a solution to their problems. The demonization of oil and gas companies will not work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Younger, more dynamic African leaders such as Abou-Zeid, Ayuk and Jusper Machogu<\/a> find it not only infeasible but immoral for their governments to leave their fossil fuels resources in the ground in return for \u201cclimate finance\u201d from virtue-signaling Western governments and multilateral agencies such as the World Bank<\/a> to invest on unreliable solar and wind. Africa needs all the coal, oil and gas it can exploit, to achieve rapid economic development for their aspiring populations. Asia, and now President Trump\u2019s American \u201cenergy dominance<\/a>\u201d, are their models for fossil fuel-based economic development, not a hypocritical, deluded EU that has begun backpedalling<\/a> from the costly \u201cenergy transition\u201d that their own citizens are rebelling against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Energy Secretary Chris Wright believes that fossil fuels are the solution to the widespread lack of energy access in Africa, dismissing the challenge posed by climate change and calling too much emphasis on addressing it \u201cdestructive.\u201d Speaking to a roomful of African officials and business people at a Powering Africa summit in Washington earlier this year, Secretary Wright said Western countries such as the United States have for years been \u201cshamelessly\u201d telling Africa that coal is bad and not to develop it. He said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s just nonsense, 100 percent nonsense\u2026Coal transformed our world and made it better, extended life expectancy and grew opportunities, and coal globally will be the largest source of electricity for decades to come. That\u2019s not a policy, that\u2019s not a desire, that\u2019s just a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As the Net Zero and \u201cenergy transition\u201d narratives get increasingly threadbare, global investments into fossil fuel projects are surging. Global banks significantly increased their financing for coal, oil and gas projects last year, according to a new report<\/a> by climate advocacy groups including the Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club, marking a reversal at a time when lenders are backtracking on climate pledges. According to the recently published report, banks fossil fuel financing was 23% higher than the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spate of oil and gas projects<\/a> are now being financed in Niger, Senegal, Cote D\u2019Ivoire, Uganda and Kenya<\/a>. In March, under Secretary Wright\u2019s watch, the US Export-Import Bank (Exim) approved<\/a> a direct loan of up to $4.7 billion to support the world-class Mozambique LNG project in Cabo Delgado, marking a significant milestone in the project\u2019s revival after years of uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enough with the Technobabble<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is it about Africa that attracts Western climate zealots to offer policy advice on energy and environment? Is it that the West suffers from a Rousseau-esque angst over modern life<\/a> and hankers after a mythological state of nature in Africa? Does the myth of the noble savage compel Westerners who regret their modern industrial norms to practice carbon imperialism over the world\u2019s least developed continent? The \u201cdo as I say, not as I did\u201d syndrome which afflicts Western intelligentsia is applied with particular insistence to African policymakers, given that the major Asian developing countries depend less on international development aid and finance for their domestic investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Africa is not an anthropological museum for Western virtue, and the energy \u201cleapfrogging\u201d myth is a neo-colonial fable dressed in technobabble. Africa should climb the same energy ladder that raised the West out of an energy-starved perennial poverty of the pre-industrial era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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