The South Africa (SA) Climate Change Champs Renewable Energy Challenge is a competition open to Grade 9 - 11 learners at Climate Club host schools in the Eastern, Northern and Western Cape as part of the SA Climate Change Champs project that aims to inspire learners to imagine how renewable energy can be used to impact their communities. The competition aims to provide an accessible platform for youth voices on renewable energy to be heard. By amplifying the voices of the youth, we hope to empower them to become active citizens in responding to climate change and to be aware of the opportunities that exist for their communities for a sustainable future.

To do this, learners will be given the opportunity to showcase their artistic and technical abilities with the focus on a very relevant topic, renewable energy. Learners will provide a renewable energy solution that addresses a problem from any of the five categories , as guided by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, and then select a method to demonstrate their renewable energy solution.

Learners are encouraged to think of a problem affecting their homes, schools and broader communities and develop a project that shows how renewable energy can solve and address these issues.