Two years after launch, partners reflect on what has been built, what has been learned, and what comes next. In 2024, AfricaEnergyParks (AEP) set out to show that clean, affordable energy can transform a rural African landscape without sidelining the people who live in it. Today the project has legal foundations in place, a community-owned…
Community representatives, local stakeholders and AfricaEnergyParks partners have come together in Ghana’s Savannah Region to help shape the next stages of an integrated approach to clean energy access, livelihoods and cleaner cooking. On 4 March 2026, the AfricaEnergyParks (AEP) project held a co-creation workshop in Tuna, in Ghana’s Savannah Region, bringing together community representatives, Community…
The AfricaEnergyParks (AEP) Consortium, in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and Green Transition (MoEn>) and the Forestry Commission (FC), hosted the National Forum on Microgrids and Minigrids for Off-Grid Electrification in Ghana. Held at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, in Accra, on February 18, the event brought together stakeholders from across the…
The 4th General Assembly of the AfricaEnergyParks (AEP) took place on 18 February 2026 in a hybrid model (both on-site in Accra and online) to assess the project’s progress and the ongoing efforts to enhance energy access and climate resilience in Africa’s rural communities. The assembly brought together consortium partners to discuss the way forward…
In February, we proudly released the third edition of the AfricaEnergyParks Newsletter, highlighting the hybrid microgrid vision behind the project. This edition features an insightful piece by Zahra Esfahani, Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, on the main barrier in many rural African communities: not the absence of clean-energy technologies, but the difficulty of deploying and…