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Key Energy Projects in Africa Paving the Way to SDG7

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Evidence and Knowledge Showcasing Joint Action

Photo: © GIZ / Carolin Weinkopf

Across Africa, pioneering projects are transforming people’s lives and ensuring a future of affordable and sustainable energy on the continent. With the support of the European Union, these projects boost the production of renewable energy, raise awareness of a clean energy transition, create employment opportunities, promote gender equality, foster green mobility, and accelerate the access to energy services.

Here are some projects that are contributing to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) in Africa.

Morocco

Mediterranean Green Electrons and Molecules Network (MED-GEM)

The MED-GEM Network, an EU-funded initiative, brings together experts and stakeholders in renewable energy and green hydrogen, catalysing the green energy transition between the European Union and the Southern Mediterranean. Its components harmonise energy policies, facilitate investments, convene dialogue, bringing together industrial stakeholders from the energy efficiency, renewable energy, and GEMs sectors and infrastructure stakeholders in areas such as transportation, storage, and trade facilities, as well as raise awareness of favorable regulatory measures.

Learn more: https://med-gem.eu/about

Mozambique

Photo: © SolarWorks!

SolarWorks!

SolarWorks! offers solar home systems and energy services on a pay-as-you-go basis to customers in Mozambique and Malawi. Today, SolarWorks! supplies a wide range of solar home systems – from small systems that include lights and mobile-charging capacity to bigger ones that power televisions, refrigerators, and sewing machines. Customers pay small amounts every month using mobile money until eventually owning the appliance.

GET.invest, a European programme that mobilises investment in renewable energy in developing countries, provided financial advice on the business plan of SolarWorks!

Learn more: https://www.get-invest.eu/story/powering-up-southern-africas-off-grid-homes/

Ghana

Smart Energy Solutions for Africa (SESA)

SESA is a collaborative project between the European Union and nine African countries (Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Tanzania) that aims at providing energy access technologies and business models that are easily replicable and generate local opportunities for economic development and social cohesion in Africa.

Through several local living labs, SESA is expected to facilitate the co-development of scalable and replicable energy access innovations, to be tested, validated, and later replicated throughout the African continent.

Learn more: https://sesa-euafrica.eu/

Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and Energy Finance (SUNREF)

SUNREF aims to facilitate access to affordable sustainable energy and allow companies and households to acquire higher quality equipment, make cost savings and become more competitive by managing energy more efficiently while respecting the environment.

Thanks to European Union support and the investment grant incentive, the SUNREF Ghana programme promotes the development of a low carbon and resilient economy by financing solar rooftops, electric vehicles, green buildings or other EE and RE investments for individuals and companies.

Learn more: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/ghana/eu-under-sunref-putting-energy-efficiency-and-renewable-energy-within-reach-households-and_en?s=101

Kenya

Green Resilient Electricity System Programme

The Green Resilient Electricity System Programme will support Kenya’s goal of a complete transition to 100% clean power generation by 2030 and it will boost Kenya’s sustainable energy future by providing critical investments and capacity-building measures to expand the country’s production of green electricity as well as improving grid stability and efficiency.

The Programme has been developed under EU’s Global Gateway initiative in close cooperation with the Kenyan government and the Team Europe partners, the KfW Development Bank and the European Investment Bank.

Learn more: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/kenya/global-gateway-launch-green-resilient-electricity-system-programme-kenya_en?s=352

Photo: © MPower Ventures

Cameroon

MPower

Since 2018, the company has been working to achieve reliable solar energy access by delivering a wide range of small and medium-scale solar energy infrastructure. MPower stands apart from competitors because they use an innovative “business-to-business-to-consumer” (B2B2C) model.

The European programme, GET.invest reviewed MPower’s investment materials, provided strategic guidance and offered fundraising support, allowing the company to significantly strengthen the quality of its investment materials, improve its financial model, and more effectively access finance to sustain its early growth and fuel its expansion plans throughout the region.

Learn more: https://www.get-invest.eu/story/solving-the-distribution-puzzle-to-scale-up-solar-infrastructure/

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