Reports

House of Commons report – Empowering Development: Energy Access for Communities

In December last year Professor Vanesa Castán Broto submitted evidence to a call from the International Development Committee in Parliament based on our research and findings from out ESRC GCRF funded project. The report outlines how the UK should protect its funding for community-led energy access or risk endangering the long-term success of programmes that have shown tangible impact, a committee of MPs has found; and also sites CESET's work, including the definition of community energy and table outlining the benefits of community energy projects. 

CESET impact coordinator Shirley Jeque Mutemba has published a new report that highlights our key achievements, from enhancing health services with solar energy to championing gender equality in the energy sector.

This report provides an overview of training provided by Amare Assefa from Addis Ababa University on 16-17 September 2024 for Chipopoma community on small-scale hydropower plants to equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary for the successful operation, and maintenance of chipopoma mini hydropower. 

In this report Dr Aran Eales proposes a community energy system twinning initiative that focuses on fostering partnerships between successful community energy projects in the UK and emerging leaders in renewable energy access in Africa. This collaboration aims to fund and implement minigrid solutions in underserved areas, leveraging the expertise and resources of UK projects to support energy access initiatives abroad. 

This report summarises a 4 week hyrbid training course delivered to 27 females engineers by Mzuzu University in May 2024. 

This report provides a summary of Dr Harshit Vallecha's visit of community energy projects in Malawi in September 2023. 

AMER produced a report to explore the gaps and opportunities in the Mozambican legislation to propose an additional package of incentives to stimulate the operators in the off-grid subsector to adhere to the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Seal (GESIS). 

CESET co-investigators Carlos Shenga and Lorraine Howe of the Centre for Research on Governance and Development in Maputo have published a Portuguese language policy brief on Mozambique's off-grid energy regulation and assesses the opportunities and challenges for the uptake of off-grid energy projects in the country.

Final report of a three-part series of annotated bibliographies.  

Report one of a three-part series of annotated bibliographies that a) surveys the body of published research in the area of community energy across Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique; b) reviews key insights and considerations already well documented in the literature as of July 2020; and c) explores areas overlooked in current debates to date and identifies critical gaps for research and development in the sector.