Dataset includes PV plants, Wind plants, Hydro Power plants, Biomass plants, and conventional energy power plants (coal, diesel, gas and heavy fuel) in ECOWAS region and categorized accordingly as operational or planned within a wide...

Slope data in degrees for Benin with a 1km x 1km resolution. The dataset was derived by KTH-dESA based on elevation data provided by CIAT (see Jarvis et al. [1]). [1] Jarvis, A., H.I. Reuter, A. Nelson, E. Guevara, 2008, Hole-filled...

Developed by SOLARGIS and provided by the Global Solar Atlas (GSA), this data resource contains solar resource data for: direct normal irradiation (DNI), global horizontal irradiation (GHI), diffuse horizontal irradiation data (DIF), and...

Developed by SOLARGIS and provided by the Global Solar Atlas (GSA), this data resource contains photovoltaic power potential (PVOUT) in kWh/kWp covering the globe. Data is provided in a geographic spatial reference (EPSG:4326). The...

Developed by SOLARGIS and provided by the Global Solar Atlas (GSA), this data resource contains terrain elevation above sea level (ELE) in [m a.s.l.] covering the globe. Data is provided in a geographic spatial reference (EPSG:4326). The...

This dataset shows the river network for West Africa and the estimated hydropower potential as well as several other interesting attributes. After detailed calculation, the attribute values were rounded to a reasonable accuracy. This...

RISE is a set of indicators to help compare national policy and regulatory frameworks for sustainable energy. It assesses countries’ policy and regulatory support for each of the three pillars of sustainable energy—access to modern...

The Global Electrification Platform (GEP) is a multi-phase project led by the World Bank to standardize and simplify the use of geospatial tools for least-cost electrification planning. The GEP provides a high-level overview of the...

Data for medium and high voltage transmission lines in Benin. The data were compiled for the AICD study led by the World Bank. A variety of sources were consulted, including regional power pool documents and maps from World Bank...

Data for power plants in Benin with total installed generating capacity 10 mw from the Platts World Electric Power Plants Database (WEPP 2006).

Population density per pixel at 100 metre resolution. WorldPop provides estimates of numbers of people residing in each 100x100m grid cell for every low and middle income country. Through ingegrating cencus, survey, satellite and GIS...

Annual average wind speed (m/s) with 1km x 1km resolution. The dataset was obtained from IRENA Global Atlas for Renewable Energy (https://globalatlas.irena.org), which collects the data from the Global Wind Atlas 2.0, a free, web-based...

Digital elevation data for Benin from CIATs SRTM 90m Digital Elevation Database v4.1. The original USGS/NASA SRTM data was provided in cells of approximately 90m x 90m, which has been processed to fill no-data cells and aggregated to 1km...

A Benin subset of this dataset: ECOWAS region - Existing and Planned Transmission Grid (2017) Existing and planned transmission grid network (medium and high voltage lines) in the ECOWAS Region. Also covers other regions of West Africa....

Data repository for solar and meteorological ground measurements from a network of weather stations in West Africa. The data is provided in the framework of the West African Power Pool project: "Solar Development in Sub-Saharan Africa -...