Request for Proposals for the uptake of new courses
This call is now CLOSED
TEA-LP is designing three new Masters’ level energy access courses to be taken up by universities across Africa and the Indo Pacific into Masters’ level programmes. The courses that are being offered are:
- Course #1: Local Solutions for Energy Access
- Course #2: Mini-grids: Planning and Design
- Course #3: Appliances for off-grid communities
To submit a proposal please complete the online Google Form below:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14sw3YngyyUrNnWRPEOvqG-in5zUBn8h2T8hrSOORJmo/viewform?edit_requested=true
The course design process started with a dedicated virtual roundtable for each course, to determine the course Learning Outcomes and embed expert input from TEA partners and external sector experts. These inputs will inform the design of the new courses. The three course design leads are experts from the first phase of TEA-LP.
In the coming months, TEA-LP will select and contract with 20 new partners to support the delivery of the new courses to post-graduate students in their respective countries. At the same time, TEA-LP continues to collaborate with our original 8 universities currently delivering their energy access Masters’ programmes.
- Course#1: Local Solutions for Energy Access
This high-level, multi-disciplinary course aims to provide the Masters’ level student with a framework for understanding the energy access sector, to assess local challenges and to offer potential local solutions. The course will offer the following topics: Distributed energy systems (DES) including future options; Enabling environment/ Policy and regulations.
Demand assessment and community engagement; Business models for increasing community income; Finance for the DRE sector.
Course #1 Lead: Prof. Augustine Makokha, Moi University
- Course #2: Mini-grids: Planning and Design
This high-level, multi-disciplinary course aims to provide the Masters’ level student with a framework for understanding the min-grid sector, to assess its challenges and to offer potential solutions. The course will offer the following topics:
- Business models: demand creation, productive use, financing;
- Mini-grid systems and Future options;
- Mini-grid regulation & policy;
- Demand assessment and community engagement;
In addition, the course includes an optional unit on System sizing and economic modelling tools that will only be suitable for students with an engineering background.
Course #2 Lead: Prof Moeketsi Mpholo, National University of Lesotho;
- Course #3 Appliances for off-grid communities
This aims to deliver graduates that can make a meaningful contribution to the design and integration, roll-out, market dynamics and maintenance requirements related to the appliance sector. The course enables a student to map out the environmental, socio-economic, business and design aspects of off-grid appliances to accelerate the diffusion and uptake of off-grid appliances for household (cooling, heating, cooking, communications), health and productive uses that improve quality of life, local economies and climate resilience. Students taking this course will be well-prepared to participate in the LEIA Efficiency for Access Design Challenge.
Course #3 Lead: Engr Ruona Diemuodeke, Port Harcourt University
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