Submissions Open - Advising on the Technical requirements for supporting community access to renewable energy in Colombia
The FT Hub is looking for (a) technical consultant(s) with extensive experience in working on sustainable access to renewable energy by off-grid communities in Colombia, to support the demand-led exploration, root cause analysis, and market and landscape analysis of key renewable energy access challenges identified in Colombia.
Deadline for applications: 20th of January 2025 (08:00 GMT)
In Colombia, the FT Hub has consulted with key stakeholders to identify the lack of sustainable access to renewable energy by off-grid communities as a priority development challenge.
In the context of the prioritisation by different actors of energy communities as one mechanism for addressing this challenge, the FT Hub and key ecosystem actors recognise that there may be an opportunity to support sustainable community access to renewable energy through frontier or emerging technologies. As part of the FT Hub’s demand-led approach to deeply understand the context and collaboratively identify, co-design and test emerging or frontier technology to address the stated challenges, we are seeking a technical expert to:
Undertake a market and landscape analysis,
Make recommendations of specific evidence-supported, demand-led use cases for addressing identified problem statements.
Co-facilitate a validation and refinement workshop leading to the verification of specific use cases for solution design to be addressed with frontier solutions in a future phase of work.
The FT Hub will prioritise local or regional consultants who have extensive experience in advancing community access to renewable energy in Colombia or around Latin America, but international consultants are welcomed.
We anticipate that there may be various scopes of work available throughout the FT Demand-Led innovation process exploring technologies for addressing this challenge and we invite applications from technical experts who can potentially commit to a longer-term engagement with FT Hub demand-led exploration in Colombia.
For more details please see the linked ToR
To apply for this opportunity, please submit a proposal by the 20th of January 2025 by 08:00 GMT, to Frontiertechhub@dt-global.com (with “Demand-Led Energy Access Tech & Innovation Expert Colombia” in the subject line) that includes:
CV(s) of consultants demonstrating relevant experience
A 1 page cover letter explaining the experience of the consultant(s) relevant to this scope of work
A high-level technical and financial proposal outlining the approach to the work, timeline, and budget and day rates of consultant(s) and number of days to deliver the scope of work.
Signed Declaration of Non-Canvassing and Non-Collusive Tendering found in Appendix 1.
Please contact Frontiertechhub@DT-Global.com for further enquiries regarding this Terms of Reference or for further information on the Frontier Tech Hub. Deadline for enquiries is January 15th 2025 @ 08:00 UK time.