The first WP of ENERGICA allows for a better understanding of the technical context in which the solutions will be developed.
Regulatory and technical constraints will be studied to foresee potential barriers to the solutions’ development and data management and cybersecurity specifications will be listed to ensure that the technologies are compliant with the technological regulations.

WP2 and WP3 are at the centre of ensuring the sustainability of the solution developed in each demonstrator. In this WP, the implication of local actors in co-creation processes will lead to an enhanced acceptance and uptake of the solutions.

Alongside WP2, this work package ensures the sustainability of the technologies and methodologies developed within ENERGICA by developing the relevant social and environmental programs. Indeed, as a large barrier to technology adoption in Africa is the capacity to sell, operate, and maintain the technology systems at a local level, it is therefore prescient that suitable training programs are in place on the ground to account for cultural diversity and local technical abilities and infrastructures.

The Malagasy technical WP focuses on the development of nano-grids providing effective access to electricity but also including productive uses in regard to the Water-Energy-Food nexus. Agri-specific, water-specific and cooling-specific solutions are targeted and developed before an effective integration and demonstration in their local contexts of the 50 chosen Madagascar villages.

The Western Africa technical WP focuses on the development of low-tech and frugal technologies in both the biogas and water purification sectors. Two types of adapted solutions (either integrated biogas and water or upscaled biogas) are tested before an effective integration and demonstration in peri-urban and urban Freetown.

The last technical WP focuses on the development of battery systems and management with particular application to electric mobility in the urban contexts of Kenya (Nairobi and Kisumu). Energy-efficiency solutions for the optimisation of decarbonised mobility use-cases are targeted and developed before an effective integration in their local context followed by demonstration and replication phases.

To ensure that the project effectively provides positive impacts on its surrounding environment, assessments regarding the demonstrators’ current and future economic feasibility will be provided and will contribute to setting a basis for scaling-up and replicability strategies.

To ensure that the project effectively provides positive impacts on its surrounding environment, assessments regarding the demonstrators’ current and future economic feasibility will be provided and will contribute to setting a basis for scaling-up and replicability strategies.

This work package is critical to the effective implementation of the ENERGICA solutions. To ensure that the technologies, methodologies and collaborations are sustainable, different actions will be developed and the overall objective of a high replicability rate and scaling-up capacities will be ensured through high-scale and open-access deliverables for all levels of stakeholders.

The WP10 gathers all the communication, dissemination and exploitation activities of the project. Such activities are essential for the success of ENERGICA, which aims at an active participation of many different actors in the co-creation and replicability of its demonstrators. For this purpose, the ENERGICA strategy includes the development of a public website, as well as the implementation of promotion campaigns, dissemination activities such as inter-project workshops, participation in national and international events, etc., and exploitation activities targeting the necessary actors to ensure the uptake of the solution and their replicability at different scales and in different contexts.

The project coordinator will be responsible for the overall management of ENERGICA. WP11 will ensure efficient administration in accordance with EC guidelines and requirements, as well as communication inside the consortium and timely report to the EC. Other tasks include coordination of the project activities, efficient Grant management and resources optimisation as well as Risk Management.

The objective is to ensure compliance with the ‘ethics requirements’ set out in this work package.

To learn more, browse the deliverables associated to the Work Packages on the Results page