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Our CESET co-investigators Carlos Shenga and Lorraine Howe of the Centre for Research on Governance and Development (CPGD) in Maputo have published a Portuguese language policy brief ‘Oportunidades para Absorver Projectos Comunitários Energéticos’ on Mozambique's off-grid energy regulation. The policy brief provides an overview of a study, funded by The University of Sheffield's Impact Accelerator Account, that assessed the opportunities and challenges for the uptake of off-grid energy projects in the country.

Our CESET team have contributed chapters to the new ‘Handbook on Energy Justice’ edited by Stefan Bouzarovski et al (2023) and published by Elgar.

Vanesa Castán Broto and Enora Robin have just published a new special issue in the Journal of Landscape Research, which includes an editorial piece 'Embracing change in infrastructure landscapes' 

CESET project in collaboration with Mzuzu University, organized a vocational training targeting female technicians from various fields of energy. The training was funded by the ESRC Impact Accelerator Account as part of the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Seal project, which aims to address the unequal power relations experienced by people on the grounds of gender, ability, location, ethnicity and language and agency when accessing energy resources.

Our CESET Member Mulualem G. Gebreslassie (Mekelle University) has presented a paper entitled “The role of community energy to facilitate energy transitions in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique” in the Global Energy Meet 2023 organised by the United Scientific Group at Boston from March 06-10, 2023. The talk was held virtually on the 5^thday of the conference on the 10^th of March 2023. 

Our CESET co-investigators Lorraine Howe and Carlos Shenga of the Centre for Research on Governance in Maputo have published a new report on the opportunities and challenges for the uptake of community energy projects in Mozambique. 

CESET Co-investigators Dr Joshua Kirshner and Idalina Baptista's new paper "Corridors as empty signifiers: The entanglement of Mozambique’s colonial past and present in its development corridors" is available via open access in Planning Perspectives. 

Our CESET partners at Addis Abba University in Ethiopia have been busy creating an interactive map that provides information on Malawi's community energy systems (CES) as of 2023. A total of 20 community energy systems based on hydro, solar, wind, and a hybrid of solar and wind have been identified.

Some of the CESET team in collaboration with their colleagues, led by our Ethiopian CESET project Co-Investigator Mulualem G. Gebreslassie, have published an article on “The need to localize energy technologies for Africa's post COVID-19 recovery and growth” in Scientific African.