A spatiotemporal atlas of hydropower in Africa for energy modelling purposes

The modelling of electricity systems with substantial shares renewable resources, such as solar power, wind power and hydropower, requires datasets on resource profiles high spatiotemporal resolution to be made available the energy community. Whereas resources exist for diurnal seasonal scales across all continents, this is not yet case hydropower. Here, we present a newly developed open-access African hydropower atlas, containing generation nearly existing several hundred future plants continent. The atlas builds continental-scale hydrological in combination detailed technical databases plant characteristics can facilitate Africa.