B5 · Rwanda
LEAP-RE — Long-Term Joint EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy
- Period
- Oct 2020 – 2025
- Client
- LEAP-RE consortium (programme management: LGI Consulting)
- AESG's role
- Consortium member; lead on WP10 data collection
- Where
- Rwanda
- Scope
- pan-African and European
A five-year AU–EU renewable energy programme: 83 consortium members from Africa and Europe across academia, policy, energy service providers and equipment manufacturers, structured in 17 work packages. AESG works on three:
expanding and managing a lasting LEAP-RE community: supporting innovation among consortium members, organising general workshops, and developing the strategy for knowledge access, sharing and mutual learning. Solar). Solving unclean cooking and piloting standalone cookstoves — resource assessment and business model development using electric pressure cookers, market analysis, capacity assessment and policy engagement. for Africa). Brown- and green-field mini-grid study integrating digital technologies and socio-economic models: demand and resource assessment, distribution and dispatching methodology, and optimal design and planning methodology, validated on real case studies.
Recovered. In the 2023 profile, the deck and the ongoing-projects note — absent from the 2025 profile. AESG's flagship EU–AU research credential; the website should carry it.
- WP4 — Community and outputs. Fostering and promoting LEAP-RE's outputs and outcomes,
- **WP10 — PURAMS (Productive Use in Rural African Agriculture Markets using Standalone
- **WP13 — SETaDiSMA (Sustainable Energy Transition and Digitalization of Smart Mini-Grids