Authors:

TECNALIA: Amaia González Garrido, Eduardo García, Daniel Valencia Caballero, Elena Turienzo, Ander Zubiria Gómez, Ana Huidobro;

LEITAT: Natalia Rey, Eduard Borras, Daniele Molognoni;

Going Green: Chikondi Khonje;

Make It Green: Martin Karlsson;

RISE: Susanne Paulrud, Kent Davidsson

Deliverable D3.2 provides a guideline of the desired functional requirements related to the main energy technologies that could possibly be deployed in the SESA Living Labs, with special attention to the innovation degree, technology costs, expected performance, and their local end-users, covering households and rural communities, small businesses, tertiary sector, municipalities, the fishing and agricultural sector, educational and healthcare facilities, and e-mobility companies. The targeted audience of this deliverable, behind the SESA project, are the responsible entities of the Living Labs and project development partners, who will drive the implementation plans, and are responsible to select the appropriate technologies, systems, or solutions. Beside this primary target audience, the document can be of interest also for public and private sector professionals, such as equipment providers, project developers and local authorities beyond the SESA project. The ‘energy innovations’ (energy technologies of interest) covered in this Deliverable D3.2 have been specially selected from the draft implementation plans and actions which are planned to be deployed in the SESA Living Labs, including: solar photovoltaics, smart mini/microgrids, electric mobility, second life EV batteries, biomass to biogas (biodigester), and waste to energy for cooking (BioCooker), as well as the transversal topic of climate proofing. 

Authors:

Madeleine Raabe, María Yetano Roche

The present document is a complete and partner-validated draft of the Sustainable Energy Solutions catalogue which will be made available to the public in 2023. The catalogue has a two-fold aim:

● Internally: informs the implementation of SESA validation and replication sites (WP 4) and supports them by providing an introduction to the solutions that can be used in engagement with different actors (e.g., local government, civil society).

● Externally: informs and inspires outside audiences regarding the range of potential solutions and lessons learned during SESA implementation.

The catalogue is composed of ten factsheets. Each factsheet focuses on a specific sustainable energy solution or cross-cutting aspect. Factsheets cover both technological and business aspects of the solution, as well as other key dimensions that are relevant for the target audiences.

The catalogue is to be updated with lessons learnt from the implementation of the living labs over 2023 and 2024.

The development of the catalogue is led by Wuppertal Institute (WI) but each factsheet was co-created with inputs from stakeholders. Review rounds were central to the development process.

The list of factsheets was developed in consultation with partners, drawing from an identification of the main themes recurring in the living labs.

Authors:

Abdellah Abarkan, Judith Oginga Martins, Annica Skytt, Giles Thomson

This deliverable summarizes the on-going activities of Work Package 4 of the Sustainable Energy Solutions Africa (SESA) project (European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation framework programme under Grant Agreement No. 101037141). The SESA project involves a modular living lab demonstration action in Kenya, 4 validation demonstration projects in Morocco, Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa and 4 replication demonstration projects in Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Nigeria.

This report constitutes Deliverable 4.2 (D4.2) of the SESA project. It comprises updates to the five demonstration Implementation Plans (for Kenya, Morocco, Ghana, Malawi and South Africa) that formed Deliverable D4.1 which was issued in July 2022. This report effectively supersedes D4.1 describing major activities taken up until September 2022 and where relevant, it also describes initial replication opportunities identified in the process.

This report contains five national Implementation Plans, each Implementation Plan has its own delivery team and contextually appropriate demonstration actions. The last section of the report outlines the setup of ‘regional platforms’ as a way to co-develop solutions and build capacity and funding opportunities between SESA activities happening across a wide geographic area.

The SESA project draws upon thematic experts from Europe and Africa from relevant fields of application to provide insights and guidance to the support co-development of the living labs. The implementation plans describe the context, need and implementation activities innovative energy solutions activities across the identified thematic areas in the different living lab locations. The identified thematic areas include:

– Solar energy: Kenya (test), Ghana (validation), South Africa (validation), Morocco (validation), Namibia (replication), Tanzania (replication), Nigeria (replication), Rwanda (replication)

– Clean cooking/ Waste to energy (Biogas for cooking): Ghana (validation), Malawi (validation), Rwanda (replication)

– Second life EV (Li-ion batteries) batteries: Kenya (test), South Africa (validation), Morocco (validation).

The experts involved in the development of the implementation plans will share their specific expertise and experience and provide technical advice related to feasibility, costs and benefits, and monitoring for good performance over the project lifetime. Experts will also support replicability of innovative measures. The direct involvement of international networks and initiatives will ensure a high level of visibility and replication of the innovations tested in this project.

Authors:

Painuly, J. P., Romero, J. R., Xia-Bauer, C.,Kehbila,A., &Mungo, C.

The barrier analysis covered in this report falls within Work Package 5, Task 5.2 – Policy development, institutionalisation and integration in local and national plans. Technologies for implementation have been identified by partners in demonstration and validation countries. The technology matrix for demonstration and validation sites can be referred to in Table 1.1 (Chapter 1).

This report covers barriers and policy gaps identified through a literature survey and stakeholder consultations for nine technologies in demonstration and validation countries (referred to as case studies); Productive Use of Solar Energy (PUE), and Electric Mobility (E-mobility) in Kenya, Clean Cooking in Malawi, Second-Life Use of EV Batteries in South Africa, PVs for Household use, and E-mobility in Morocco, Second-life Battery Use as Energy Storage for Solar Photo-voltaic Systems, and Bio-ethanol Technology for Cooking in Ghana, and Solar Irrigation in Rwanda.

Task 5.2 has linkages with other work packages of the project, as well as with other tasks within the same work package (WP 5). Though there are overlaps, inputs from packages WP1 to WP4 on the barriers and needs for policies in their domains (where they dive deep), can strengthen the findings in this area. Policies identified in this work package provide inputs for policy dialogue (WP6).

Executive summary

This document summarizes the Data Management Plan for SESA, including procedures and standards for handling data produced and collected by the project team, as well as ownership rights.

This document will present a detailed risk management plan acknowledging the probability of occurrence of identified risks or the emergence of new one establishing avoidance and mitigation actions. The plan, periodically reassessed and discussed with the Steering Group, will include an adequate measurement method of progress (risk indicators) as well as the “acceptability level” of each risk. The risks analysis will be based on the traditional “level of impact x probability of occurrence” approaches (scale 1-5).

Executive summary

This deliverable describes the SESA project’s approach to mitigating foreseen and unforeseen risks that may hinder the smooth implementation of project actions and stifle the delivery of objectives. The SESA project involves a modular living lab demonstration action in Kenya, 4 validation demonstration projects in Morocco, Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa, and 4 replication demonstration projects in Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Nigeria.

Taking into account the level of innovations in the demonstration actions as well as the high number of partners involved in the implementation activities, the project and its partners acknowledge the possibility of some uncertain events or situations from within and outside the project posing threats to the smooth implementation of actions which could eventually negatively affect project aims.

The project consortium therefore sees it quite important to set up a continuous risk management process in order to follow the probability of occurrence of any identified uncertainties or risks and ascertain their level of impacts so as to design appropriate mitigation measures. This document therefore presents the roles and responsibilities of project partners for risk management, the risk management procedure which includes risk identification, risk analysis, response planning, and risk monitoring and controlling.

The document also provides an initial list of potential risks foreseen and offers mitigation measures to be performed and monitored throughout the project. It is noteworthy that the risk management process in the SESA project will be continuously carried out throughout the project such that at any given stage of the project where a potential event, situation or condition, for that matter any risk, could negatively affect project success, the necessary action would be taken to avoid or minimise any such effects that may arise.