This workshop report forms a deliverable of WP1 of the 'Energy System Development Pathways for Ethiopia' (Pathways) project led collaboratively between University College London (UCL), Policy Studies Institute of Ethiopia (PSI), the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (KTH) and Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT). The Pathways project aims to enhance modelling capabilities in Ethiopia to support the development of energy system development pathways for Ethiopia in a context of

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... increasing demand for energy. It suggests qualitative storylines for future resource development and address knowledge gaps on how demand for electricity, including electricity for productive uses and demand side policies might affect energy system development pathways. In August 2019, this one-day event was held in Addis Ababa UCLPSI to discuss future energy pathways for Ethiopia. This formed the first stage of the Pathways project and had the objective of deriving plausible supply-side development pathways that were relevant in helping to understand the energy challenges that Ethiopia faces. To this end, the research teams, together with stakeholders, convened and ran a structured discussion within which qualitative storylines for energy resource use and supply side design for Ethiopia were developed. This work relied heavily on both an initial literature review carried out by PSI, and on views offered and discussed by local stakeholders and experts. This report provides a summary of the process that was followed to structure these discussions as well as the results from these discussions that later fed the modelling work carried out in the rest of the project.