Research
Four themes, one agenda.
RCEES's research programme is organised around four themes that capture the most consequential questions facing Africa's energy systems and environment. Each theme supports doctoral training, professional practice and policy engagement.
Themes
The questions we work on.
Theme 01
Energy Transition
Pathways from fossil fuels to renewable and cleaner sources, supporting Africa's progress toward net-zero emissions.
Theme 02
Energy Storage
Materials, systems and policy frameworks for storing electrical energy — a linchpin of the global renewable transition.
Theme 03
Energy–Environment Nexus
The environmental consequences of energy consumption and their social, economic and ecological effects on African communities.
Theme 04
Sustainable Development
Energy as a driver of societal development, managed within the ecological limits of the continent's landscapes.
Publications
Peer-reviewed output.
The corpus below is pulled live from OpenAlex — an open scholarly database that indexes Scopus, Crossref and the broader literature — for works affiliated with RCEES and the University of Energy and Natural Resources. The list refreshes automatically whenever new work is indexed upstream.