Comoros outdoor power supply production

Key consumption and production statistics are shown in Figures 2 and 3. Biomass (wood and charcoal) is used to provide about 70 per cent of energy use in the Comoros. Other plants being explored for generating biomass energy include oilseed plants, such as coconut, sesame, peanut and Jatropha curcas (REEEP, 2012).

In 2013, the population of the Comoros was 13.1 million people (Table 1) (World Bank, 2016). Electricity production in 2015 was 6 ktoe, with all of it generated from fossil fuels. Final electricity consumption in the same year was 6 ktoe (AFREC, 2015). Table 2 shows the main energy statistics.

: Data not applicable 0 : Data not available (P): Projected The country has no known oil or gas reserves and hence has no upstream sector. The potential for wind power in the Comoros is low. Measurements indicate that wind speeds rarely go above 3 m/s, the average required to drive a wind generator.

Just less than 70 per cent of the population of the Comoros has access to electricity: 61.4 per cent in rural areas and 85.1 per cent in urban areas (Table 3 and Figure 4). There are also access disparities between the three islands.

The total installed capacity is 22.6 MW and the efective capacity is 13 MW. The monthly consumption on Grande Comore only is 3,782.7 KWh. These high costs make the possibility of switching or incorporating more renewable into the energy mix very attractive (Houmadi & Chaheire, 2015).

The key indicator of a potentially exploitable geothermal system on Grande Comore is the presence of a rift system associated with the active volcano. This geological structure along with other measurements, including surface thermal discharges and a geophysical survey, suggest that an active geothermal system is present.