Overall project: Forecast of revenue to be made from selling wind produced electricity in Lesotho from planned Hirundo Wind Farms to the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) markets.
Overall project: Most households with access to electricity (grid or mini-grid) still cook with biomass. The project plans to integrate modern energy cooking services (MECS) in electricity access to address both the clean cooking challenge and environmental degradation.
ERC Roles: Pursue modern energy cooking services in Lesotho especially in areas where mini-grids will be erected to help people transition to clean cooking services.
Acquisition of Solar Trailer
Hosted a Solar Open Day at NUL Roma campus with a number of institutions invited to demonstrate renewable energy and energy efficiency products and services. Institutions included the national Department of Energy (DoE), MOSCET, African Clean Energy (ACE), Solar Lights, Bethel Business and Community Development Center (BBCDC) and OnePower.
Initiation of International Collaboration between ERC, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt and Eduardo Mondlane University on sourcing collaborative research funding on Addressing the Technological and Socio-Economic.
Factors Hindering the Use of Solar PV-Based Mini-Grids in Sub-Saharan Africa with Focus on Lesotho and Mozambique. ERC Role: Addressing the local and national contexts: Legal frameworks, investment conditions and resource availability of PV-based mini-grids in Sub-Saharan Africa.
* To raise awareness for renewable energy technologies (solar thermal, solar PV, etc.) by demonstrating and promoting the benefits.
* To promote the use of renewable energy technologies in the country.
Joint development of student projects and implementation of joint research areas in the field of sustainability and energy management in Austria and Lesotho
Around 1.8 billion people across the globe have access to electricity but still cook with biomass. Load shedding, weak grids, affordability of electricity, accessibility of liquid petroleum gas (LPG), tradition, perceptions, and a lack of suitable cooking appliances all act as barriers to scaling up the use of electricity or gas for cooking – clean cooking. ERC in collaboration with Loughborough, intend to pilot the use of Electric Pressure Cookers in the villages that ERC is building mini-grids in. For more information on MECS, please click here.