Smart Energy Solutions for Africa (SESA)

We, together with various partners, are jointly delivering activities under the SESA project, which aims at providing energy access technologies and business models that are easily replicable and generate local opportunities for economic development and social cohesion in selected sites in nine African countries.

SESA is a collaborative project between the European Union and nine African countries 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, it 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. These solutions will include decentralised renewables (solar photovoltaics), innovative energy storage systems including the use of second-life electric vehicle batteries, smart microgrids, waste-to-energy systems (biomass to biogas), climate-proofing, resilience and adaptation, and rural internet access.

Project Location

Kenya, Ghana, Malawi, Morocco, South Africa, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania

Project Duration

October 2021 until September 2025

Brochure

Project Highlights

Capacity Building Plan under development

Project aims

ICLEI Africa’s contributions under the SESA project primarily involve the co-ordination and development of a wide range of capacity building activities to ensure the energy technology solutions implemented meet the needs of relevant stakeholders & ensures the project activities are sustained beyond the projects life span.

Funded By

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101037141. This material reflects only the views of the SESA Consortium, and the EC cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information in it. See the website here for more information: https://sesa-euafrica.eu/