Model Regions

Two work packages of the NEED project are situated in so-called ‘model-regions’ and investigate technical options of RET for two typical local environments, a small village in the desert (dryland area) and an accumulation of lodges in a national park (wetland area).

The work package ‘Fossil-Free Wetlands’ is led by the Okavango Research Institute of the University of Botswana, while the work package ‘Renewable Mini- Grid Drylands’ is led by the Namibia University of Science and Technology. The principles that are developed for setting up an energy concept and its incorporation within local structures and policy frameworks will create a model for the implementation of sustainable energy concepts in other typical rural regions.