Community Energy Systems and Sustainable Energy Transitions in Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique (CESET)

A collaborative multi-institutional research partnership funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund, CESET explores the potential of community energy systems to accelerate inclusive, just, and clean energy transitions in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique.

Map showing extreme precarity of energy access in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique

News

CESET team international conference in Addis Ababa

23rd July, 2024

Last month Professor Vanesa Castán Broto and Dr Vicky Simpson travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to meet with their project team. The final international conference “Applying community energy systems to influence energy transitions in Africa” took place in the Skylight Hotel on 18th June 2024. The final conference brought together the CESET team, with researchers, activists, practitioners and community energy project managers from Ethiopia, UK, Malawi and Mozambique.

Dr Chrispin Gogoda appointed a Malawi Battery Ambassador

24th June, 2024

Congratulations to Chrispin on his successful application to The Faraday Institution to be a Battery Ambassador for Malawi. The aim of the programme is to further promote battery technology and energy storage research and networking across sub–Saharan Africa, South Asia and the Indo-Pacific. This is in partnership with the Transforming Energy Access Learning Partnership (TEA-LP) as part of the Ayrton Challenge on Energy Storage (ACES).

New CESET open access book is published

7th June, 2024

The CESET team is delighted to announce that their edited volume "Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions: Experiences from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique" has been published by Springer.