Energy for Wellbeing

The project researches the link between well-being and the provision of renewable, off-grid energy in informal settlements in South Africa.

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Exploring the link between informality, #energy #Innovation and finance for #Infrastructure development in the off-grid city. What started as a conversation, here it is 2 years later! https://t.co/MaAtCLEx1m @UniofExeter @ExeterGeography @NewtonFund @BritishAcademy_

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

It's been a long process but happy to see our collaborative work on #infrastructure, #wellbeing and informality published! @drcbutler @ExeterGeography https://t.co/VuwkPfHGVy

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Wonderful to see this article on energy in Eswatini by @helenahastie!

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Thinking about energy, cities, intractable problems. Interesting insights and cross-national learning opportunities at our visit to the MVV Devonport waste to energy facility, Plymouth.
@Komaliy @mwdlamini @helenahastie @ExeterGeography

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Solar entrepreneur Babalwa telling us about the benefits of being a solar tower host on the UMBANE project. @ZonkeEnergy @Jiskaja @ExeterGeography @NewtonFund

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Kim Finlay from @ThrieEnergy chairing a roundtable with our Qandu Qandu solar energy entrepreneurs today here in Exeter @ExeterGeography @UniofExeter @UofE_Solutions

[Energy for Wellbeing @energyforwbeing]

Good to see the work that started out in Exeter in 2018 continuing and expanding, from solar to entrepreneurship and much more.

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

What is more exciting than this....welcome to Exeter for the S. African attendees of our off-grid energy for communities workshop, including four of the entrepreneurs who have participated throughout the @NewtonFund UMBANE project! @ExeterGeography @UniofExeter @ACDI_UCT

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

What is more exciting than this....welcome to Exeter for the S. African attendees of our off-grid energy for communities workshop, including four of the entrepreneurs who have participated throughout the @NewtonFund UMBANE project! @ExeterGeography @UniofExeter @ACDI_UCT

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Great to hear Dr. Wisdom Dlamini, University of Eswatini, sharing insightful energy research and great GIS maps at the @UniofExeter @EswatiniGovern1 @ExeterGeography

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Ernest Mkhonta, MD of the Eswatini Electricity Company speaking about addressing energy poverty in the Kingdom of Eswatini at the @UniofExeter @ExeterGeography @NewtonFund

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Great to see this paper on energy justice, solar energy, and S. Africa, Burkina Faso!

https://t.co/IEaC8WWlAQ

[Smart Eco Cities @SmartEcoCities]

New publication making the case for longer-term perspectives when assessing eco-urban projects. Using examples from China and the UK.

https://t.co/x96kVlyOw3

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Great to see our work featured in a Newzroom Afrika interview by project partner Zonke Energy's Alex Densmore!
https://t.co/5N40kUYFG8 via @YouTube

@Jiskaja
@NewtonFund
@UoETranslationF

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Quotes from the community! Good to see one of the women entrepreneurs who connected to our solar microgrids being empowered:
'Solar has changed things for the business....[the UMBANE training] has hugely changed my business.'
@NewtonFund @Jiskaja @ThrieEnergy

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

And here's Umbane Shorts video number 4! A snapshot of some of the interactions we've been having in the Qandu Qandu community, Cape Town.

@NewtonFund

@UoETranslationF

@UniofExeter

https://t.co/jAXdi2brcw

[Energy for Wellbeing @energyforwbeing]

And we now have a volume/issue! Rethinking the off-grid city in the @urbgeog journal, with @Jiskaja, @kimN3, @NormanMathebula, @adensmore, @MMoorlach, Kerry Bobbins and others! A @BritishAcademy_ funded project.

https://t.co/b6ya8jGz5t

@UniOfExeterESE @ACDI_UCT

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

New 1-minute video! Challenges for energy access in informal settlements, based on our work with and in the Qandu Qandu community in Cape Town.
@ExeterGeography @ExeGeogECRN @ACDI_UCT @zakzad @Jiskaja @NewtonFund @ThrieEnergy @ZonkeEnergy

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Virtual site visit to Qandu Qandu, Cape Town! #solarenergy #microgrid and business entrepreneurship for local women using solar-powered fridge #appliances https://t.co/ZMW0Kub4BK
@NewtonFund
@ACDI_UCT
@UniofExeter
@zakzad
@ExeterGeography
@UniofExeterESI
@ZonkeEnergy

[Off-Grid Community Infrastructures @UMBANEinnovati1]

Good to hear about #SDGs and #solarenergy in Eswatini by @ExeterGeography Helena Hastie @helenahastie

[X SEX PORN🦞 @Unifepl]

It has finally arrived 🎉 Nestled in the Penguin office display of much higher selling volumes, between Vegan Bakes and Captain Tom.