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Resilient community energy systems webinar

3rd October, 2024

The CESET project and Loughborough University are co-organising a webinar on Wednesday 6th November 2024 11am to 12.30pm. This webinar explores the strategies to realize resilient community energy systems which can withstand unforeseen natural hazards, climate change induced risks and socio-political disruptions. Building resilient community energy systems is critical to ensure clean and reliable energy access to vulnerable communities residing in remote and risk prone regions, especially in developing countries of Global South.

20% discount offer on new CESET edited book

24th September, 2024

Our publishers - Palgrave - are offering a 20% discount code until 23rd October 2024 for the newly published CESET edited book "Community Energy and Sustainable Energy Transitions - experiences from Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique". You can use the code for a printed copy of e-bbok.

Enter the following coupon code at checkout on link.springer.com to apply discount - dN6G2oOSKIg4u4 / Valid Sep 25, 2024 – Oct 23, 2024

Realising the benefits of community energy for a just energy transition

16th September, 2024

[Image credit: John Salience, Chipopoma Hydro Plant, Malawi]

On Wednesday 25 September 2024 the CESET project is holding a policy workshop at the Royal Society in London where we will launch our policy brief and recommendations. We are also providing the opportunity for participants to join online for the morning session.

Mzuzu University publish new report on training female engineers

13th September, 2024

Our Malawian CESET colleagues Chris Hara and Chrispin Gogoda have recently published a new report "Female technician and Engineers Training" funded as part of the CESET project. This was the second cohort of trainees that Mzuzu University trained over 4 weeks earlier in the year delivered by the Test and Training Center for Renewable Energy Technologies.

Vanesa Castán Broto and colleagues have published a new journal article on Climate Justice

3rd September, 2024

Vanesa and her colleagues María Ruiz de Gopegui Aramburu and Marta Olazabal have published an article entitled “Examining Climate Justice in Urban Public Space Adaptation: A Thematic Synthesis of the Literature” in the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy, Vol.2 No.3.

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.

Blog on fieldwork visits to FACIM 2023 and sites in Maputo

19th February, 2024

In August and September 2023, CESET team members - Dr Josh Kirshner, York University and Professor Marcus Power, Durham University - undertook a field trip to Maputo and you can read about it in the following blog.

New open access paper published in the Journal of Harbin Engineering University

9th February, 2024

Our Ethiopian CESET colleagues Solomon Tekelemichael Bahta and Mulualem G. Gebreslassie have just published an open access research paper entitled "The Role of Off-Grid Energy Systems for Sustainable Energy Transition in Ethiopia".

Keynote presentations from the CESET conference available to watch

17th January, 2024

On the 26th of September, CESET organised an external facing conference “From Market to Social Value: Reimagining the role of community energy in Sustainability Transitions” in Sheffield. The conference brought together the CESET team, researchers, activists, practitioners, and community energy project managers from the UK, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa. The conference included keynotes followed by responses and open discussion.

Amare Assefa presented at the ICAREED-24 conference in the USA

16th January, 2024

CESET member Amare Assefa from Addis Ababa University presented a research entitled “A Survey of Energy Technology Graduate Program and graduate’s Experience with perspective on community energy: Ethiopia Case” at the ICAREED-24 conference. ICAREED-24 took place 11 th - 12 th January 2024 in Washington DC, USA. It brought together researchers, educators, and practitioners from around the world to discuss the latest developments and challenges in the application of renewable energy and environmental development.

CESET team presented at the International Conference on Environmental Engineering & Renewable Energy

16th January, 2024

Solomon Bahta and Mulualem Gebreslassie authored a CESET conference paper, which was presented virtually by Solomon on 22 December 2023, at the International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Renewable Energy (ICENVERE - 23) in Finland, thanks to funding from the CESET project.

New report from Mzuzu University on renewable energy training for women

3rd January, 2024

Last year Mzuzu University delivered a 10 day training course on renewable energy for women engineers and technicians, which was implemented by the Test and Training Center for Renewable Energy Technologies, (TCRET), with funding from the Community Energy Systems and Sustainable Energy Transitions Project.

Workshop on fostering intersectional energy education in Africa

20th December, 2023

On 28 November 2023 the CESET project team held an online discussion about promoting intersectional energy education in Africa. The meeting was organized to discuss and share experiences across Malawi, Mozambique and Ethiopia and to learn and design better training and education for energy engineers. The participants reached a consensus that there is a gender gap in the engineering education sector, particularly in Electrical and Mechanical engineering, which are important routes for entering the energy sector.

CESET participates in inaugural conference of the International Network on African Energy Transition

1st December, 2023

CESET co-investigators Carlos Shenga and Lorraine Howe from the Centre for Research and Governance and Development (CPGD), Mozambique were invited to join the inaugural conference of the International Network on African Energy Transition (INAET), co-hosted by Luiss University and Eni, in Rome on 16-17 November 2023.

Welcome Shirley Jeque Mutemba - CESET project impact coordinator

1st December, 2023

CESET is delighted to welcome Shirley to its team through the University of Sheffield’s Evidencing Impact Internship scheme, which aims to help students develop their employability skills by working within the University on a project-based placement.

Shirley is a current student at The University of Sheffield studying MSc Management. She holds a Bachelor’s Honours degree in Economics from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

A New CESET research paper published as Open Access in a Special Issue

24th November, 2023

Our CESET co-investigators Mulualem G. Gebreslassie and Carlos Cuvilas have published a new CESET research paper as open access in a special issue titled "The role of community energy systems to facilitate energy transitions in Ethiopia and Mozambique" in the Energy systems journal at Springer nature.

Final blog of Dr Vallecha and his field visit to CES projects in Northern Malawi

7th November, 2023

In September CESET researcher Harshit visited different community energy projects in Malawi to gain a deeper understanding of the landscape of CES projects. This is the third blog in the series. You can read the first here and the second here.

Second blog in the Community Energy Systems in Malawi series

7th November, 2023

In this second blog Dr Harshit Vallecha travelled south to visit the MEGA project at Mulanje and then to the Oleole project at Chikwawa. You can read the first blog here.