Simone Osei-Owusu

Tackling Stranded Asset Risk Exposures within Africa’s Power Market

Simone Osei-Owusu is a DPhil Student at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, researching stranded asset risk exposures within Africa’s Power Market.

Prior to her doctoral studies, Simone was a Research Energy System Modelling Fellow at UCL’s Energy Institute, where she supported the Green Grids Initiative on scaling climate finance within the sector, modelling cross border interconnection to assess carbon benefits. She also holds a MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London, where her thesis focused on the exploration of stranded assets and resource adequacy of a fully renewable power system in Kenya.

• Brinkerink, M., Sherman, G., Osei-Owusu, S, Mohanty, R., Majid, A., Barnes, Trevor., Niet, T.,  Shivakumar, A. and Mayfield, E. (2024) A Global Electricity Transmission Database for Energy System Modelling. Data in Brief, 54.
• Brinkerink, M., Sherman, G., Osei-Owusu, S., Mohanty, R., Majid, A., Barnes, T., Niet, T.,  Shivakumar, A. and Mayfield, E. (2023) Global Transmission Database (0.1) [Data set]. Zenodo.
• Pye, S., Osei-Owusu,S. and Shivakumar, A. (2023) Mobilising climate finance for grids: Taking stock of  current financing approaches. Working Paper in collaboration with the Green Grids Initiative (GGI). Finance Working Group.
• Pye, S., Osei-Owusu, S., and Shivakumar, A. (2023) Financing Green Grids is Critical to Support a  Paris-aligned Energy Transition. Climate Compatible Growth Programme COP28 Policy Brief Series.