Renewable energy villages roadmap development for Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Botswana nations

Abstract

This article aims to map out a roadmap 2025–2029 for 4 African nations—Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Botswana—and associated policy recommendations. The method is to work on the project, long-term Joint Relationship Between European and African in Renewable Energy Research in Energy Village Concept in Africa (LEAP-RE: WP 14) and mapping polices and roadmaps from experience and literature. The significance and contribution is an example to African nations for developing and mapping out a Roadmap for 2025–2029 for Energy Village (EV) projects. The novelty is the African Energy Villages, which were identified to be unique and different from implementations in European nations. The EV concept identifies and analyses potential supplies of renewable energy (RE) and local consumption needs to help local communities become energy self-sufficient. Understanding policies and initiatives for self-sufficient RE villages in Africa under the LEAP-RE program is a crucial prerequisite in implementing EV concepts using clean and secured sources of RE such as biomass, small hydropower, solar, and wind for rural African people. The main conclusion is that such EVs are able to use more than 100% RE from local communities to overcome the energy shortage.