Engineering & Energy Consultancy Services

Green Scene Energy engineers at work in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Green Scene Energy team in Addis Ababa. Photo: Duncan Moore / CLASP

Green Scene Energy is a licensed engineering and energy consultancy (Consultancy Licence No. YK/AA/14/672/4899283/2013) with a rare advantage: we build what we recommend. Our advice is grounded in the field experience of a company that has taken solar mini-grids, water pumping systems and institutional power plants from feasibility study through construction to commercial operation. When we tell a client what a system will cost, how it will perform and where it will fail, it is because we have built and operated that system ourselves.

We only design what we would be willing to build, and we only recommend what we have seen work in the field.

Green Scene Energy Consultancy

What we do

  • Feasibility studies and energy audits for solar PV, mini-grids, water pumping, clean cooking and productive use of energy
  • System design and engineering with professional yield and shading simulation before procurement
  • Owner’s engineer and construction supervision for developers, financiers and institutions
  • Market research, end-user demand assessment and M&E, a practice our founders helped pioneer for Ethiopia’s renewable energy market with GIZ Energising Development
  • Training and capacity building, including a workforce development programme under the Skills Challenge Fund with the Ministry of Labour and Skills and KfW that has trained more than 160 solar professionals
Green Scene Energy technical team assessing solar equipment
Technical assessment work. Photo: Duncan Moore / CLASP

Who we work with

Our consultancy clients and partners include international development programmes, NGOs, research institutes and private developers: GIZ Energising Development (EnDev), CLASP, Precise Consult, IWMI, ACTED, ADRA and the Pharo Foundation among them. We have conducted end-user demand assessments, technology pilots and impact studies across 8 regions of Ethiopia, often in areas where no other data exists, and we hold a letter of support from the Ministry of Water and Energy for our mini-grid work.

2016

delivering in Ethiopia since

160+

solar professionals trained

8

regions covered by our field research

6 MW+

of our own advice, built and running

Why clients choose us

Most consultancies hand over a report. We hand over a report we would stake a construction contract on. As a women-led company working across Ethiopia and the UK, we combine international standards with deep local knowledge: our engineers speak the languages of the communities we assess, our recommendations account for real supply chains and import realities, and our numbers come from systems we operate every day.