The African Center of Excellence in Energy for Sustainable Development (ACEESD) is an approved ACE II project center of excellence envisioned to address key economic challenges resulting from low rural energy access, poor adoption of energy technologies in rural areas, and poor inter-state energy trading in the Eastern and Southern Africa region.

The ACE II project is a partnership between the World Bank and the Government of Rwanda to strengthen selected institutions of higher education in the country to deliver quality post-graduate education and build collaborative research capacity in the Eastern and Southern Africa sub-region, and Africa as a whole. 

The ACE-ESD focus on the following areas:

RENEWABLE ENERGY 

ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS

ENERGY ECONOMICS