Malawi Energy Ministry and A2EI sign ASCENT dMRV contract

At the Global Off Grid Solar Forum & Expo in Kigali, Mr Elvis Thodi, Secretary for Energy at the Ministry of Energy of Malawi, on behalf of the Government of Malawi, and Mr Stefan Zelazny, Managing Director of the A2EI, signed the contract to deploy a digital Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (dMRV) platform under the Accelerating Sustainable and Clean Energy Access Transformation (ASCENT) Malawi Project.

The official signing took place at the Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo 2026 in Kigali, Rwanda. It marks the start of the implementation of Prospect, the open-source data platform developed by A2EI and supported by GET.invest, as the ASCENT Malawi Project’s dMRV platform. The platform will support project oversight and transparency, performance monitoring, and evidence-based decision-making.

Speakers Mr Ahmed Abdala, Head of the Energy Unit at COMESA Secretariat, and Mr Austin Theu, Project Manager of the ASCENT Malawi Project, highlighted the importance of the integration of the platform with COMESA’s Prospect-based regional digital platform – strengthening regional collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and digitalisation across the COMESA nations.

We look forward to working with the Government of Malawi to adapt Prospect to national requirements and support the ASCENT Malawi Project’s objectives, including the deployment of over 800,000 solar home systems, improved access to clean cooking for approximately 150,000 households, and the electrification of more than 1,000 schools and healthcare facilities.