The resources currently mobilized for energy consumption fall into two prime categories. The first main category is energy resources intended for the generation of electricity and its subsequent utilization, and the second category is energy used for generating heat.

Current primary sources for providing heat are (i) sunlight, (ii) biomass, (iii) bottled kerosene, (iv) compressed LP gas, and (v) electricity. The primary sources for providing electricity are high-speed. diesel generation sets (HSDGs) with limited use of grid-tied solar photovoltaic (PV) and minimal use of grid-tied asynchronous wind power turbines.

Based on data collected from the field surveys, Somalia currently consumes more than 121,000 liters of diesel fuel daily to support the installed generation capacity.1 Much of this is occurring in suboptimal and wasteful conditions of wet stacking. These figures will inevitably grow with additional. capacity installed and the total daily consumption of diesel is expected to reach 694,000 liters in the medium term, following the curve of increasing demand.

There is also quite significant interest in, as well as utilization of, Pico photovoltaic (PV) systems and Small Home Solar (SHS) PV electricity systems for residential lighting in both urban and remote areas. The addition of sizeable grid-tied solar PV generation to the HSDG-based systems of some of the various electricity service providers’ (ESPs) electricity generation and distribution networks has resulted in some synchronized hybrid diesel-solar PV electricity generation systems across Somalia. Finally, there is limited wind-based generation installed.