Complementarities and synergies with intermittent renewable energy, related issues - Burkina Faso cases studies

Food Quality Standards: Quality Issues and Challenges of Food Chain in Burkina Faso

Background: In Burkina Faso, the agricultural sector accounts for 35% of the gross domestic product (GDP) and employs 82% of the active population. The agri-food industries must apply the requirements of the management systems to improve their economic position and ensure sustainable development. The present study aimed to highlight the similarities and particularities of these repositories gro...

Non-renewable and intermittent renewable energy sources: friends and foes?

[Rhinoscleroma: two cases in Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso].

INTRODUCTION Rhinoscleroma is a chronic granulomatous infection of the respiratory tract due to Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis (K. rhinoscleromatis). PATIENTS AND METHOD We observed two cases of rhinoscleroma in the Souro-Sanou university hospital of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, over a 9-year period (2009 to 2010). RESULTS A 19-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman both consulted with obstruct...

Energy Storage Technologies for Utility Scale Intermittent Renewable Energy Systems

In current conventional utility systems, fossil fuel or nuclear power plants must back up intermittent renewable electricity generators if the utility grid is to have acceptable reliability. For low levels of intermittent power, this can be achieved without difficulty or added expense. For high levels this reliance on other generators becomes explicit and increasingly expensive, and transmissio...

Vulnerability Profile of Burkina Faso