Strategic low-cost energy investment opportunities and challenges towards achieving universal access (SDG7) in each African nation.

This dataset underpins the study "Strategic low-cost energy investment opportunities and challenges towards achieving universal access (SDG7) in each African nation". The study provides insights into energy supply and demand, power generation, investments and total system costs, SD7 indicators, job creation as well as carbon dioxide emissions for each African nation (48 in total). An energy systems model enhanced with geospatial data was developed to evaluate energy supply requirements to cover the energy needs of the African continent during the period 2015-2030 and achieve universal access by 2030. The model was developed using the open-source modeling system for long-term energy planning OSeMOSYS and the geospatial electrification outlook (GEP). The objective function is to minimise the total energy system costs. The results can be found https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5810529