Energy Transition
Accelerating Africa's shift to clean, affordable, and reliable energy.
Overview
Access to reliable, affordable, and clean energy is foundational to development. With over 600 million Africans still without electricity and a continent endowed with the world's greatest renewable energy potential, the energy transition presents both an urgent challenge and a historic opportunity.
CLEEN's Energy Transition practice provides strategic, technical, and financial advisory services that help governments, utilities, developers, and investors unlock this potential. We work across the full energy value chain — from generation to transmission, distribution, and end-use efficiency.
Our approach integrates just-transition principles, ensuring that the shift away from fossil fuels creates decent work, community benefit, and lasting prosperity rather than stranded assets and social disruption.
Capabilities
What we offer
Renewable Energy Feasibility & Siting
Resource assessments, site selection, grid interconnection analysis, and bankable feasibility studies for utility-scale solar PV, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass projects across Africa.
Mini-Grid & Off-Grid Electrification
End-to-end advisory for rural electrification programmes: demand assessment, technology selection, business model design, regulatory navigation, and financing strategy for mini-grids and standalone systems.
Green Hydrogen Strategy
Market opportunity analysis, project development advisory, and regulatory frameworks for green hydrogen and green ammonia production in hydrogen-rich African nations.
Just Transition Planning
Stakeholder-inclusive planning processes that develop diversification roadmaps, worker reskilling programmes, and community investment strategies for communities dependent on coal and fossil-fuel industries.
Case studies
Related work
Sustainable Energy Service Centre (Millennium Challenge Corporation) · 2019
Sustainable Energy Service Centre — Ghana Power Compact
Support for the establishment and operation of Sustainable Energy Service Centres delivering energy-auditing capacity building, with contributions to energy-efficiency and conservation initiatives under the Ghana Power Compact Programme.
UENR (UKAID) · 2022
TEA-LP — Transforming Energy Access through Learning Partnerships
Support for curriculum development and roll-out of new postgraduate energy-access programmes at UENR, alongside networking to improve Southern visibility in the global energy-access sector.
UN Environment Programme · 2024
NDC Action E-Mobility Policy Working Group, Ghana
Coordination of e-mobility policy development and stakeholder engagement aligned with Ghana's updated Nationally Determined Contributions, with technical input on regulations, capacity building and the electric-vehicle transition roadmap.