This project is entitled Smart Energy Solutions for Africa(SESA). The project has been designed to combine innovative energy access solutions for a range of applications in both urbanised and rural contexts in Africa and will focus on testing, validating, and replicating those energy innovations through co-developed demonstration actions. 

SESA (Smart Energy Solutions for Africa) is a collaborative project between the European Union and nine African countries aimed at providing energy access technologies and business models.

It facilitates the co-development of scalable and replicable energy access innovations, to be tested, validated, and later replicated throughout the African continent.

Within the IK Cluster frame, the specific focus is on exploring green energy possibilities in indigenous contexts by applying a variety of community-based and speculative design methods and approaches.

SESA’s objective is to mitigate climate change and avoid lock-in situations while improving access to sustainable energy under affordable and reliable conditions.

The project aims to achieve a high level of replicability of actions. As part of an effort to go beyond the state of the art and maximise the project’s impact, the project will co-develop innovations with local partners and cooperate closely with sister projects to exploit synergies.

Solutions that will be tested in this project have been selected on their basis of their replication potential. Demonstration concepts aim to integrate several solutions to provide essential energy services to rural and urban communities and create easily replicable business opportunities for local entrepreneurs.

The Replication action description

The Namibian replication case is a national endeavour, whereby specific rural communities nationwide will be selected as recipients of the replicated solutions. The solutions are essential for communities, as they enable communities to: 

1) have access to green and sustainable energy 

2) to enhance local productivity and capacity. 

 The link to the the SESA Website: SESA