Integrated Energy Access Planning

Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) advocates for and supports the development of national integrated energy access plans (IEPs). An IEP is a framework that helps direct resources effectively and efficiently to where they are needed the most. These plans clearly define a country’s goals for electrification and clean cooking access and how partners can help them reach these goals.

Whether a country wants to bring new energy access to its people or expand its power supply to support productive purposes, it first needs a plan. And a well-designed plan can help a country achieve its energy goals more quickly and affordably.

Existing IEPs

Country-specific platforms that have already been developed by SEforALL to communicate the outcomes of Integrated Energy Access Plans, offering clear insights into each nation’s pathway in achieving universal energy access.

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Centre of Excellence (CoE)

The CoE undertakes a wide range of initiatives to advance Integrated Energy Access Planning. These efforts focus on developing new tools, datasets, and publications, all intended to be publicly accessible resources that serve the sector as a common good.

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Meet the IEP team

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National Integrated Energy Access Plans

Madagascar

The Madagascar Integrated Energy Access Planning Tool is an online, interactive platform that provides policymakers with data-driven insights to advance energy access. Developed in collaboration with Madagascar's government, it uses geospatial analytics to support least-cost electricity expansion, clean cooking access, and cold chain infrastructure for health and agriculture. This tool enables informed planning and offers downloadable data to help Madagascar achieve universal energy access by 2030. The tool was launched in July 2024.

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Malawi

The Malawi Integrated Energy Planning Tool is an online, interactive platform designed to help policymakers and energy practitioners in Malawi make informed decisions on expanding energy access. Using geospatial analytics, it provides actionable insights for both government and private sector stakeholders to support least-cost electricity access, clean cooking, health facility electrification, and medical cold-chain needs, especially in the context of COVID-19. This tool enables strategic planning through interactive, downloadable data to help Malawi achieve universal energy access by 2030. The tool was launched in October 2022.

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Nigeria

The Nigeria Integrated Energy Planning Tool is an online, interactive platform that combines multiple data layers to support Nigerian policymakers in advancing energy access. Powered by geospatial modeling and optimization, it provides actionable insights for both government and private sector stakeholders to plan least-cost electricity and clean cooking expansion. This tool offers interactive, downloadable data to help Nigeria achieve universal energy access by 2030. The tool was launched in February 2022.

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Mozambique

The project aims to support the new Planning & Coordination Unit (Unidade Integrada de Planificação e Coordenação da Eletrificação - UIPCE) in building sustainable technical capacity and developing scalable analytics and modeling tools. These will enhance its energy access planning capabilities and provide valuable insights for data-driven decision-making. The goal is to facilitate the deployment of electrification solutions that achieve universal access, promote clean cooking, and power productive value chains over the long term. Coming Soon...

Rwanda

The Rwanda National Integrated Clean Cooking Planning (NICCP) project aims to serve as an instrument to guide efforts towards the expansion of clean cooking solutions in the country and can be adjusted to different contexts and needs, as the sector continues to develop. The NICCP is built on innovative interactive tools that estimate the effects of planning decisions in terms of techno-economic and financial results, intended to become a living instrument to support the Government of Rwanda and its collaborators make and adapt decisions in a dynamic and informed way. Coming Soon...

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Centre of Excellence

The Open Building Insights (OBI) tool is a cloud-based interactive platform that harnesses open spatial data and AI to deliver insights into millions of building structures. With a robust suite of features, OBI supports informed decision-making for sustainable planning in urban and rural areas. This initiative, a collaboration between Sustainable Energy for All and IBM's Sustainability Accelerator to empower energy and infrastructure planners with data-driven tools to drive sustainable change and improve lives. OBI consolidates open access building datasets and AI-models created by IBM, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Open Energy Maps.

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OMG

OnSSET for Mini-Grids (OMG) is an open-source, Python-based tool developed by SEforALL to conduct quick techno-economic analyses of potential mini-grid sites. Built on the OnSSET model, OMG incorporates modifications to assess mini-grid viability and uses automated methods to generate distribution network components across multiple sites. Leveraging spatial analytics, it optimizes configurations for hybrid solar-diesel-storage systems and provides detailed distribution design specifications. Fully customizable, OMG can adjust to site-specific data and serve as either a stand-alone tool or integrate into a national least-cost modelling framework.

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AgCAP

SEforALL is developing the Agricultural Cold Chain Access Planning Tool (AgCAP), an innovative open-source solution designed to enhance electricity access planning by integrating sustainable cooling solutions. Traditional electrification models have primarily focused on household needs, neglecting the crucial demand for economic applications like agricultural cold chains. With up to 50% of food in Sub-Saharan Africa wasted due to inadequate post-harvest management, AgCAP conducts geospatial analyses to evaluate farming and fishing activities, market access, and identify communities that would benefit from cold storage facilities. This tool aims to empower planners and stakeholders through dedicated training, facilitating improved food security and economic viability in the region. Coming Soon...

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ICCPT

The ICCPT is a first-of-its-kind effort that considers key modelling aspects to support transparent and effective planning of clean cooking strategies. It models the adoption of cooking technologies over time and space, considering human behavior, technologies and fuels supply chains, local deployment of electric and LPG infrastructures, the types of consumers and demand areas, among other aspects. This tool was applied to develop Rwanda’s National Integrated Clean Cooking Planning (NICCP). Coming Soon...

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Publication

Integrating Clean Cooking into National Energy Access Planning The Knowledge Brief provides a review of relevant tools and methodologies for integrated energy access planning and gives an overview of policy, finance and knowledge initiatives that help create enabling conditions for these plans to be implemented and drive clean cooking transitions.

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Publication

Data Standards SEforALL hosted a workshop about data and integrated energy planning in July 2020, which focused on identifying the data needs and quality of integrated energy planning, where data/quality gaps exist and how they can be filled. The workshop brought together experts in data and energy planning to explore how geospatial-based integrated energy planning can be made more accurate, consistent and practical through better data.

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Partners