Nechifor, V;
Basheer, M;
Calzadilla, A;
Obuobie, E;
Harou, JJ;
(2022)
Financing national scale energy projects in developing countries – An economy-wide evaluation of Ghana's Bui Dam.
Energy Economics
, 111
, Article 106065. 10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106065.
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Abstract
Large energy infrastructure can imply special financing arrangements between governments in developing economies and investors or lenders. These arrangements can lead to economy-wide and sector-specific impacts which need to be considered in the project economic evaluation. By considering the case of the Bui Dam in Ghana, we use a macroeconomic approach to determine how the economic performance of critical energy infrastructure manifests during the construction, financing and operation phases. The analysis uses an integrated modelling framework that combines a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of Ghana with a water balance model of the Lower Volta River Basin. The results highlight the importance of including indirect and induced effects, in addition to the direct effects from project operation, as they influence the scale and temporal evolution of the economic impacts. The collateral from the infrastructure loan agreement consisting in cocoa exports to China nearly doubles the project's positive GDP impact and has a significant multiplier effect over urban and rural household income compared to a standard commercial loan. We finish with a discussion of how the proposed investment-oriented modelling framework can contribute to ex-ante strategic assessments of proposed energy infrastructure in developing countries.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Financing national scale energy projects in developing countries – An economy-wide evaluation of Ghana's Bui Dam |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106065 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106065 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. under a Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Energy infrastructure development, Project finance, Computable general equilibrium, Developing countries, Water balance model, Hydrological uncertainty |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149769 |
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