News

Our CESET partners’ Dr Josh Kirshner and Lorraine Howe + their colleagues have just published a new open access article in Energy Research and Social Science Journal. 

We are delighted to welcome Hita Unnikrishnan to the CESET team where she will work across all four key pillars of work.

Hita joined the Urban Institute as a post-doctoral researcher on a Newton International Fellowship. Her work focuses on histories of urban water commons within the south Indian city of Bengaluru.

Amare Assefa holds a B.Sc and M.sc. degree in Electrical Power Engineering from Addis Ababa University (AAU). Currently, he is a PhD student on a joint program in the University de Lorraine, France and AAU. Amare is a lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology and AAU. He has been involved in several local and international collaborative research projects in the field of electrical power and renewable energy.

Dawit Habtu Gebremeskel is a Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology. He specialized in Electrical Power Engineering in his BSc and MSc studies. He is currently doing his PhD on “Long-term energy systems modelling and planning” in collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He is also involved in consulting different projects in the area of electrical power and energy engineering. 

The CESET team is delighted to announce that Maria de Fatima Serra Ribeiro Arthur has joined the project team. Fatima brings extensive experience as the previous Executive Director for People and Corporate Services, Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM).

Our CESET principle investigator Professor Vanesa Castán Broto and her colleague Professor Andrea Rigon at University College London have edited a new book with Routledge. 

The Government of Mozambique recently distributed a draft off grid regulation and requested comments by the private sector and other relevant stakeholders. CESET were given the opportunity to participate in the consultation process and provided feedback to the Associação Moçambicana de Energias Renováveis (AMER), a non-profit association whose mission is to promote renewable energy in Mozambique.

The CESET team have produced this briefing to outline the basic financial features of CES development as they are planning to put them in practice within the CESET project. The review raises some important questions of general interest for understanding CES. The main question is whether a CES can be integrated within a community in a way that the community can reduce its operating costs and support its long term viability.