Even though Africa is home to some of the best renewable resources on the planet, almost half of the continent's population does not have access to modern energy. The project OpenMod4Africa will support providing access to clean, affordable energy to everyone by creating an open modelling toolbox for long-term energy transition pathways for Africa.
OpenMod4Africa aims to develop an Open Energy System Modelling Toolbox, which is adapted to African needs and uses based on collaboration between African and European partners. The toolbox provides science-based results to policymakers and local actors, to assist them in analysing the environmental, social and economic synergies and trade-offs to be achieved in a clean energy transition in African countries, as well as the impact of increasing clean energy generation. The capacity building program, replication strategy and strong involvement of African academic institutions and other stakeholders guarantees that OpenMod4Africa can help increase African energy modelling competence and establish a network of local experts and users of the open Toolbox in the long term.
PARTNERS:
- Sintef Energi AS
- Electricite de France
- Centre de Test des Systemes Solaire
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
- Veritas Consulting PLC
- Strathmore University
- Makerere University
- Technische Universitat Berlin
- Universidad Pontificia Comillas
- Renewable Energy Solutions For The Mediterranean And Africa
- Internationales Institut fuer Angerwandte Systemanalyse
- Addis Ababa University
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This project has received funding from the European Union under grant agreement No 101118123 (OpenMod4Africa).