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Building-level Electricity Access and Demand Model

A tool to estimating electricity access and demand at the building level in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Overview

The Building-level Electricity Access and Demand Model is an open-source model developed through a collaboration between the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). By integrating ground-truth electricity consumption data, high-resolution satellite imagery, geospatial datasets, and AI, this model provides accurate estimates of electricity access status and demand for individual buildings across sub-Saharan Africa.

This tool leverages the BEACON and LItLDF models, as outlined in Lee, S.J., Multimodal Data Fusion for Estimating Electricity Access and Demand, Doctoral Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023.

Code and Resources

The source code for the tool is publicly available on GitHub:

To explore the model results and download data for the first three pilot countries (Ghana, Senegal, and Uganda), visit: Open Energy Maps.

For bulk data downloads, access the download link.

Training Video

For a step-by-step guide on using the tool, watch the IEA-Power Africa: Data-Driven Electrification in Africa Webinar.

Learn More

Read the commentary on how Africa's electricity access planners are increasingly turning to geospatial mapping for better planning and decision-making.

This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0).
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