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/The Powering Opportunities Partnership (POP), a component of the UK Department for International Development (DFID)’s wider Transforming Energy Access (TEA) programme (https://www.carbontrust.com/tea/), is aimed at exploring how the off-grid sector can better stimulate local jobs and local value addition in sub-Saharan Africa. This POP Productive Energy Use (PEU) call is aimed at providing grant support to action research projects and partnerships that can create and drive productive electricity demand in off-grid and rural areas. This Call for Expressions of Interest is intended for organisations (including innovative partnerships and joint ventures between organisations) that propose high potential, replicable and scalable opportunities which use clean off-grid energy to stimulate rural economic development and support sustainable returns for off-grid energy installations. Please read this Call for Expression of Interest (including Terms of Reference) attached to this document for more information. Key dates for the EoI stage are included below: Stage Description Date (if applicable, time) EoI EoI submission period opens 10/12/2018 EoI submission deadline 1700 (GMT) 28/02/2019 EoI Clarification Interviews In the week commencing 11/03/2019 Notifications to shortlisted/unsuccessful EoI applicants 18/03/2019 Shortlisted applicants after the Expression of Interest phase will be invited to submit a Full Proposal. Should your Full Proposal be successful, an award letter, the Terms of Reference (as amended to incorporate or include your proposal) and the Conditions of Contract will establish the Contract for Research into Powering Opportunities Partnership (POP) - Productive Energy Use (PEU) (the “Contract”) between you and the Carbon Trust. The Carbon Trust leads the Research Programme Delivery Consortium (RPDC) for TEA, under contract to DFID. Unless informed to the contrary, please send proposals and all communications(including requests for clarifications) by email to the following email address: TEA-POP-PEU@carbontrust.com We look forward to receiving your Expression of Interest. Yours sincerely Daniel Marten TEA - POP Programme Manager For and on behalf of THE CARBON TRUST 2 Call for Expression of Interest - FOR - Powering Opportunities Partnership (POP) Productive Energy Use (PEU) action and learning research projects in Sub-Saharan Africa 3 Contents Expression of Interest 1 Introduction....................................................................................................4 2 Types of Projects ............................................................................................5 3 Scope of Call ...................................................................................................6 4 Funding available under this competition......................................................6 5 EoIs submission guidelines.............................................................................6 6 Other requirements and additional information............................................8 Terms of Reference 7 TEA programme and The Powering Opportunities Partnership ..................12 8 Powering Opportunities Partnerships - problem statement........................12 9 Powering Opportunities Partnerships – programme objective....................12 10 Project Description.....................................................................................13 10.1 Project’s geographic scope.....................................................................13 10.2 Scope of Work.........................................................................................14

The UK Department for International Development (DFID)’s Transforming Energy Access (TEA) programme (https://www.carbontrust.com/tea/) invites companies, researchers, NGOs and other stakeholders to collaborate and apply for grant support to action research projects and partnerships that create and drive productive electricity demand and use in off-grid and rural areas.

The call is especially for projects that combine business activity and action research in rural areas. The projects should locally add value to rural activities or value chains, create new value chains, including through digital economy, that is otherwise constrained by a lack of access to electricity, or enable other business / electricity-demand stimulating activities that may be created.

The full call for expression of interest Deadline for applications is February 28, 2019, 5pm.

If you have an idea for a project or would like to find a partner, write This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (subject: Productive use project) and we might help you to connect with a partner and/or improve your application.