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Community Energy Malawi electrifies rural areas in Balaka
Apr 06, 2023 Macdonald Kaleso For decades, people in the area of Sub-Traditional Authority Chakanza, a very remote area in Balaka District in Southern Malawi, have had to walk long distances in order to access basic services that require electricity such as cutting hair and charging devices. Access to most services and merchandise from the closest trading centre, Shire North, is only but a dream during the rainy season as roads become impassable due to flooding. Authorities in the district say the commissioning of a 12.5 kwh solar hub by

Community Energy Malawi seeks to reduce deforestation through the use of LPG
May 24, 2023 Mike Kalumb Community Energy Malawi Limited is implementing a project called Kuphika Moganizira Chilengedwe which seeks to reduce the use of charcoal and firewood by encouraging the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). The project is being supported by the Government of Japan and UNDP. CEM is implementing the project in Lilongwe and Zomba where among others it is are distributing gas cookers, Chitetezo Mbaula and also installing biogas systems in different institutions. Speaking to Malawi24 online, Wonderful Mkhutche who is Advocacy and Communications Manager at CEM

Green Inclusive Energy Excites District Health Office in Malawi
July 27, 2017 Guest blog post by Chawezi Gondwe, CEM The Chitipa District Health Office (DHO) in Malawi is excited with the Green Inclusive Energy (GIE) project which Community Energy Malawi (CEM) is implementing in the district. The DHO lamented at the lack of technical backstopping on solar PV and other renewable energy systems installed at health centres in the district. “We have several partners who support us with solar installations and usually 2 or 3 months down the line, the systems breakown because of lack of professional maintenance”, said Dr

Off-grid renewable energy private-public partnership model: Improving market access and affordable technology financing | Policy, Malawi 2019
SEED Practitioner Labs Policy Prototyping Malawi brought together policy-makers, eco-inclusive enterprises, and intermediaries over a multi-step collaborative process to design policy instruments that increase access to and improve the quality of support mechanisms for socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable enterprises looking to scale their impact. The Private-Public Partnership Model for Off-Grid Renewable Energy, hosted by Community Energy Malawi, improves multi-stakeholder coordination around the marketing and distribution of off-grid energy products in Malawi. The model for developing off-grid renewable energy markets offers an approach to engage policy-makers in improving national energy policy implementation by translating existing