ИСТИНА

The report reviews RE resources and plans in East Africa Countries for their development, as well as the support of international and financial organizations for the renewable energy projects in this region. The RE development in the region is associated with high investment risks. Risk factors include: significant geostationary and temporal variability of wind and solar energy, high cost of exploratory drilling for geothermal resources with probability of negative results, lack of qualified staff, technical illiteracy of population. The RE development is an important factor of social and economic development in these contries, increase of energy independence,a lever to overcome the spatial heterogeneity of the population's access to electricity.