ENERGy access and green transition collaboratively demonstrated in urban and rural areas in AfrICA

Informations projet

ENERGICA

N° de convention de subvention: 101037428

DOI

10.3030/101037428

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 31 Août 2021

Date de début 1 Novembre 2021

Date de fin 31 Janvier 2026

Financé au titre de

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Coût total

€ 12 348 175,75

Contribution de l’UE

€ 9 999 370,39

Coordonné par

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN
Germany

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Livrables

Other (3)

Regional integrated assessment models

These reports will establish regional-scale climate adaptation and mitigation predictive models for the Western, Eastern and Southern regions including a focus on the ENERGICA technologies.

Predictive model for reduction of materials use

This tool will provide an easy-to-operate model to determine the potential in materials use reduction of a technology. Models will target especially an optimisation of the ENERGICA energy production technologies.

Multi-criteria decision analysis tool for energy system evaluation and planning

This open-source software will enable the user to select out of predefined criteria and apply individual weights to evaluate the performance of power generation technologies in a local context.

Documents, reports (20)

Easy access start-up manual and day-to-day operations instructions

Targeting local plant operators, this report will detail the optimal operation of the plant for an easier uptake.

ESIA framework results

A report that summarises findings from D8.1 to D8.4, considering also the impact on demo project level, using the ESIA procedure, which includes an integrated environmental and socio-economic assessment.

Community activation and involvement monitoring and evaluation report

This report will include a methodological section on multistakeholder involvement in energy transitions and on the work of the energy transition board

Report and manual on SDG based impact assessment

The report will describe the interlinkages of access-to-energy and energy transition projects with fields of sustainable development (encompassed by the SDGs) and quantify the impact of ENERGICA along the SDGs.

Findings on social acceptance in access-to-energy projects (including demosites)

The report will include the definition of KPIs for social acceptance of energy related solutions, showcasing the demonstration sites of the project.

Capacity for local value chains and circular economy model implementation

This report will provide the results on local value chains and circular economy models capacity at different scales up to ensure an enhanced uptake of environmentally compliant energy technologies.

ENERGICA capacity building and training programmes and tools

For each technology developed in ENERGICA, training manuals and training course will be created in collaboration with the project partners and the local stakeholders needs identified.

Use-cases, requirements and KPIs definition

This deliverable defines the usecases of the demonstrators Each usecase specification will cover highlevel usecase definition Key Performance Indicators UML diagrams actors list scenarios and information flows

Biogas plant specifications

This report will provide a list of components for the modular turnkey biogas plant previously sourced in Europe that can be replaced by locally manufactured components It will also include results of the labscale ash trial

Assessment of photocatalytic pilot plant for solar water treatment

This report will demonstrate the efficacy of the photocatalytic pilot plant against the inactivation of target pathogens and organic chemical contaminants from wastewater under natural sunlight.

Techno-economic assessment of hydrogen integration in rural nanogrids/minigrids

This report will provide a holistic assessment of the potential for hydrogen in decentralised off-grid energy systems (use cases, strengths and weaknesses, economic modelling, technical constraints for grid integration).

ICESs socio-economic, environmental, institutional and technical requirements

The report will describe the requirements for the co-creation and implementation of ICESs at the three demonstration areas throughout the project cycle.

Report of related initiatives

The report will gather the relevant EU and AU initiatives for the project to monitor and be linked with

Baseline community, market and ecosystem assessment

This report will describe the findings from the socioeconomic baseline study outline significant structures within the community market and ecosystem

Costs and benefits of the energy transition for the different local actors

The report will contain a review of the costs, benefits and risks of the demonstrators, taking into account financial, social and environmental aspects and applying the novel models to all ENERGICA technologies.

Energy flow patterns for productive uses of energy

This report will describe the energy flow patterns and associated value flows within the local communities

Roadmap for the implementation of capacity building and training programmes

This report will target dissemination and replicability strategies of the different programmes linked to the ENERGICA technologies and will detail strategies for future technologies incubation and market uptake.

LCA results

This report will present the results from the LCA of the upscaled demos, including comparison to reference system e.g. fossil fuels, scenario and sensitivity analyses.

Regulatory framework and technical standards

The report will include a methodology section a review of previous usecases the developed flowchart for regulatory framework analysis and a template for technical and nontechnical primer

Roadmap for the valorisation of agricultural co-products

This report will highlight the most promising pathways for the valorisation of co-products in energy access technologies (methodology used, data collected, results, conclusions, discussions and future research needed).

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (3)

Sustainability projects platform

This platform will summarise the Africa-wide sustainability initiatives that exist and the solutions to wider uptake

User manual for wide replication

This manual will enhance the replicability of the solutions through all stakeholders and all contexts in Africa.

Commissioning of the integrated biodigester-photocatalytic reactor

This deliverable provides the integrated plant ready for demonstration phase, includes a full description, construction plan, diagrams and photographs of the prototypes and details the chosen action plan.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Dedicated website

The website will be a key communication vector in the dissemination of the projects aim events and ongoing activities It will be accessible by the public and will include a private collaborative space for the partners

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Techno-Economic Evaluation of Hydrogen-Based Cooking Solutions in Remote African Communities—The Case of Kenya

Auteurs: Nikolas Schöne; Raluca Dumitrescu; Boris Heinz
Publié dans: Energies; Volume 16; Numéro 7; Pages: 3242, Numéro 1, 2023, ISSN 1996-1073
Éditeur: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.14279/depositonce-17944

Local electricity market designs for interconnected nanogrids: Impact on rural electrification in Madagascar

Auteurs: Lea Bertram, Ida Fuchs, Victor Banuls Ramirez, Pedro Crespo del Granado, Sergio Balderrama
Publié dans: Journal of Cleaner Production, Numéro 449, 2024, Page(s) 141786, ISSN 0959-6526
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141786

Assessment of antibiotic-resistant infection risks associated with reclaimed wastewater irrigation in intensive tomato cultivation

Auteurs: Samira Nahim-Granados, Hunter Quon, María Inmaculada Polo-López, Isabel Oller, Ana Agüera, Sunny Jiang
Publié dans: Water Research, Numéro 254, 2024, Page(s) 121437, ISSN 0043-1354
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.121437

Low temperature curable titanium-based sols for visible light photocatalytic coatings for glass and polymeric substrates

Auteurs: Adrián Angulo-Ibáñez; Naia Luengo; Estibaliz Aranzabe; Garikoitz Beobide; Oscar Castillo; Amaia M. Goitandia; Sonia Pérez-Yáñez; Maite Perfecto-Irigaray; Antia Villamayor
Publié dans: Crossref, Numéro 1, 2022, ISSN 1369-9261
Éditeur: New journal of chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2nj02173k

Matchmaking in Off-Grid Energy System Planning: A Novel Approach for Integrating Residential Electricity Demands and Productive Use of Electricity

Auteurs: Nikolas Schöne, Tim Ronan Britton, Edouard Delatte, Nicolas Saincy, Boris Heinz
Publié dans: Sustainability, 2024, ISSN 2071-1050
Éditeur: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su16083442

Who Decides? Gendered Authority over Household Energy Decision-Making in Rural Madagascar

Auteurs: Federica Longi, Lena Anna Schmid, Boris Heinz
Publié dans: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, 2026, ISSN 2667-095X
Éditeur: Elsevier
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6528861

Assessment of solar water disinfection enhancement with H2O2 and dissolved oxygen on inactivating different waterborne pathogens

Auteurs: Azahara Martínez-García, Samira Nahim-Granados, Ilaria Berruti, Isabel Oller, María Inmaculada Polo-López
Publié dans: Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Numéro 11, 2024, Page(s) 111145, ISSN 2213-3437
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2023.111145

Semi-Systematic Literature Review on the Contribution of Hydrogen to Universal Access to Energy in the Rationale of Sustainable Development Goal Target 7.1

Auteurs: Nikolas Schöne; Boris Heinz
Publié dans: Crossref, Numéro 2, 2023, ISSN 1996-1073
Éditeur: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/en16041658

Solar-assisted stainless-steel TiO2-based coatings for water disinfection and decontamination

Auteurs: C. Monteserín, M. Blanco, A. Juarros, A.M. Goitandia, H. Zarrabe, I. Azpitarte, E. Aranzabe, I. Espinoza-Pavón, S. Nahim-Granados, I. Berruti, M.I. Polo-López
Publié dans: Catalysis Today, Numéro 434, 2024, Page(s) 114673, ISSN 0920-5861
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2024.114673

Integrated community energy systems and their potential to address energy poverty: The case of Diana, Madagascar

Auteurs: Nora Stognief, Philipp Baslik, Lena Schmid, Boris Heinz
Publié dans: Energy for Sustainable Development, 2026, ISSN 2352-4669
Éditeur: Elsevier

Model-based techno-economic evaluation of power-to-hydrogen-to-power for the electrification of isolated African off-grid communities

Auteurs: Nikolas Schöne, Jassem Khairallah, Boris Heinz
Publié dans: Science Direct, Energy for Sustainable Development, 2022, ISSN 0973-0826
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2022.08.020

Book chapters (1)

Consolidated and Innovative Disinfection Strategies for Wastewater: A European Vision

Auteurs: Ilaria Berruti, Samira Nahim-Granados, María Jesús Abeledo-Lameiro, Alba Hernández-Zanoletty, Isabel Espinoza-Pavón, María Inmaculada Polo-López
Publié dans: Lecture Notes in Chemistry, Water Reuse and Unconventional Water Resources, 2024, Page(s) 143-176
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-67739-7_7

Conference proceedings (1)

Peer-to-Peer Electricity Trading Between Nanogrids in Madagascar

Auteurs: Lea Bertram, Pedro Crespo del Granado, Naser Hasehmipour, Victor Andreu Banuls Ramirez, Ida Fuchs
Publié dans: 2023 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica, 2024, Page(s) 1-5
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/powerafrica57932.2023.10363306