The Potential of Electric Agriculture and Mobility for the Least-Cost Rural Electrification Strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Our methodology advances the widely used ONSSET electrification planning model to estimate the maximum joint potential of electrified agriculture, electric mobility and adapted rural electrification strategies. Our approach involves geospatially estimating energy demands using population, land cover, and infrastructure data. The findings underscore the importance of jointly implementing Productive Use of Electricity (PUE) and electrification, highlighting the economic viability and potential of EVs and ETs in rural scenarios. The provided datasets include all the necessary information from our demand estimation to run the ONSSET platform.