CESET - Community Energy and Sustainable Transitions
The project CESET (Community Energy and Sustainable Transitions in Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique, 2020-2024). Community Energy Systems (CESs) refer to a range of collective, cooperative or municipally managed systems of energy generation and distribution, such as, for example, small-hydro and wind community projects, or locally-managed microgrids.
CESET focuses on Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique, three countries in East Africa where significant gaps in access to electricity remain despite national and international efforts to improve rates of energy access. Anecdotal evidence suggests that there is an increasing number of CES projects across the three countries.
CESET addresses three objectives:
Objective 1: To develop a theoretical framework to understand the diversity of CESs in East Africa and their role in delivering energy transitions;
Objective 2: To deliver a systematic body of empirical evidence on what works for CESs in East Africa, examining the institutional, technological, financial, and socio-political challenges of implementation; and
Objective 3: To build research capacity for a long-term, human-centered programme of research on CESs in East Africa.
