Local and national electricity planning in Senegal: Scenarios and policies

article i nfo To achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), all households in sub-Saharan Africa will need to have access to basic infrastructure services. The challenge in meeting this goal is in bringing this access while si- multaneously driving down the costs. With an understanding of cost drivers and the implications of achiev- ing scale it becomes possible to plan a pathway to successful infrastructure services access expansion. The analysis presented in this paper addresses the issue of local and national electricity distribution planning in Senegal using a model that identifies cost drivers of targeted electrification, providing useful policy guidance to both national and local planners. A sensitivity analysis was conducted to capture connection cost and cov- erage (access) variations as a function of demand, fuel, and policy uncertainties. The local (an area of 400 km 2