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Ivory Coast
Index
In the rural areas, most of which were not serviced by
electricity, wood, in both its natural state and as
charcoal, and
kerosene were the most important source of household
energy. At the
same time, the government encouraged small-scale attempts
to
exploit solar and wind energy. The French-owned Energy
Management
Agency used solar energy to power a community health
clinic, and in
the north of the country, wind-operated pumps raised
subsurface
water for drinking and irrigation.
Data as of November 1988
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