Date & Time: 18 March 2025 at 2 pm GMT
Organizer: pv magazine
Description: In this pv magazine Webinar we will explore key market trends for C&I energy storage, including intelligent energy management systems, new revenue opportunities in aggregation, safety performance and the differences between liquid and air-cooling systems. We’ll also hear how GoodWe has expanded its C&I offer through its building-integrated PV (BIPV) product Galaxy.
Date: 10 March 2025
Organizer: IRENA
Description: Leading up to International Women’s Day 2025, IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, in cooperation with GWNET, the Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition, is inviting you for an on-line panel discussion on success stories from all around the world of accelerating action for gender equality in the renewable energy sector.
Date & Time: 5 March 2025 at 12 pm SAST
Organizer: ESI Africa
Description: This webinar, "Water Resilience for Business," will explore how the private sector can turn water challenges into investment and business resilience opportunities. Companies that proactively integrate water resilience strategies—such as alternative water sourcing, smart metering, and reuse technologies—are securing their supply while simultaneously strengthening local water security. The financial community is also taking notice, with shareholder resolutions on water risk quadrupling in the last decade and growing interest in investing in businesses that demonstrate effective water stewardship.
The discussion will showcase real-world case studies, such as Virgin Active’s 62% reduction in water usage across 30 Western Cape branches through retrofitting and alternative water systems, and Growthpoint Properties' Estuaries office park, which achieved 70% water savings through smart metering. We will also hear from key industry leaders on how companies can diversify their water sources, implement innovative solutions, and collaborate with public institutions to drive a more resilient water future.
Date & Time: 27 February 2025 at 2 pm CET
Organizer: ARE
Description: Join ARE for an insightful webinar on Decentralised Renewable Energy (DRE) and its impact on Productive Uses of Renewable Energy (PURE) and Community Engagement.
Industry experts from ARE’s Membership will showcase how DRE systems drive industrial processes, empower small-scale enterprises, and promote sustainable manufacturing. Learn how these solutions revolutionise energy production and consumption, paving the way for a greener, more resilient future.
The webinar will also highlight the role of community engagement in fostering local socio-economic development, drawing on real-world expertise from the panel.
Explore the intersection of innovation, sustainability, and industrial progress, and engage with presenters during a live Q&A session. Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the future of energy in industries worldwide!
Date & Time: 6 February 2025 at 2 pm SAST
Organizer: ESI Africa
Description: Africa's Green Economy Summit and ESI Africa will host a webinar on Unlocking Africa's coastal tourism potential to give experts, policymakers and investors a platform to discuss what is needed to unlock this next frontier for Africa's blue and green growth.
The session will focus on fostering public-private partnerships, mobilising investment, and integrating green solutions to build climate-resilient coastal destinations and long-term economic growth.
Date & Time: 23 January 2025 at 2 pm SAST
Organizer: ESI Africa
Description: This webinar will examine key strategies to address financing gaps for smallholder farmers and agri-businesses by leveraging digital tools, Improving financial inclusion, and scaling sustainable practices.
Discussions will include successful case studies on climate-resilient agriculture, market expansion, and integrating carbon markets into agriculture to drive both profitability and sustainability.
Date & Time: 15 January 2025 at 11 am EST
Organizer: PV magazine
Description: In this pv magazine Webinar, Ana Conde, Head of product marketing at PVcase, and Alvaro Hurtado, Senior product manager at PVcase, will demonstrate how their company’s software can manage every stage of a PV project’s development, and treat us to a closer look at the new feature for cable sizing and voltage drop calculations.
Date & Time: 11 December 2024 at 10 am CET
Organizer: IRENA
Description: This event will convene experts and stakeholders from the energy sector and the conservation community to discuss solutions to harnessing local environmental benefits from renewables, challenges to further adoption and policies to address them. IUCN will present the latest findings related to local environmental benefits of renewable energy. A panel session with energy/environmental protection/biodiversity conservation experts from selected renewable energy markets will share their insights and best practices.
Date & Time: 10 December 2024 at 3 pm EST
Organizer: pv magazine
Description: In this pv magazine Webinar, we will explore what increasing weather events mean for the solar industry including the benefits of hail-and-wind-resistant modules from a utility, C&I, community solar perspective, as well as from a residential homeowner and installer perspective.
Date & Time: 4 December 2024 at 11 am CET
Organizer: ATA Insights
Description: As solar energy becomes a cornerstone of global energy solutions, the industry faces increasing challenges from natural catastrophes. High winds and hailstones, especially in high latitude and cold climates, threaten the integrity of solar power plants. Advanced tracking systems can help minimize damage by anticipating extreme weather events and enabling quick measures.
Join our exclusive webinar to discover how the latest advancements in solar photovoltaic trackers are not only optimizing energy production but also mitigating damage from severe weather events, including hailstorms.
Date & Time: 18 November 2024 at 5 pm CET
Organizer: pv magazine
Description: In this pv magazine Webinar we will discuss growing demand for resilient solar-plus-storage solutions for homes in challenging environments, including regions with extreme geography or frequent power outages.
Date & Time: 14 November 2024 at 5 pm CET
Organizer: pv magazine
Description: In this pv magazine Webinar we examine how integrating the different software for each stage into a single cohesive ecosystem can save time and optimize solar project design, management, and execution.
Date & Time: 21 November 2024
Organizer: African Energy
Description: In the build up to our third AIX: Nairobi meeting on 19-20 March, join African Energy for an examination of the outlook for Kenya's power sector, including the government's intention - announced in June - to lift the moratorium on new IPPs.
Date & Time: 13 November 2024 at 1pm GMT
Organizer: RePower
Description: Over the last decade, great progress has been made in furthering electricity access in Africa. However, the pace of electrification must accelerate to achieve full access to electricity by 2030. Microgrid financing plays a pivotal role in reaching this goal.
However, financing renewable microgrids entails a unique set of challenges that reflect the nature of providing electricity to underserved, often rural, communities in Africa. Microgrid developers need access to long-term, low-cost debt. However, local banks are often not familiar with the risks associated with off-grid renewable energy projects. This translates into higher interest rates and onerous collateral requirements which may leave little room for making these projects economically viable. International banks and financial institutions may be more familiar with renewables; however, their financial products often require developers to taken on debt in a foreign currency which they must service with income from local currency earnings. This leaves developers exposed to foreign exchange risk.
Date & Time: 13 November 2024
Organizer: African Energy
Description: 13 November 2024, 12.00 GMT, Online, Zoom For the past five years renewable IPP procurement hasn’t worked. It now looks like a set of talented and dedicated officials have fixed that problem. So is this the time to commit?
The re-election of populist and autocratic President Kaïs Saïed adds a level of political risk, particularly if his relations with international institutions such as the IMF and World Bank deteriorate further.
The really massive prize for investors – and perhaps also for the country – lies in exporting green energy from Tunisia to Europe. But these projects depend on investors and offtakers seeing a stable governance regime. It would also help if investors on the domestic renewable power market were making progress.
John Hamilton and African Energy Live Data will untangle the set of interlinked dilemmas facing investors looking at Tunisia’s power sector.
Date & Time: 7 November 2024
Organizer: IRENA
Description: Grid infrastructure, including electricity transmission and distribution powerlines, plays a vital role in the global energy transition aligning with the Paris climate targets. The rapid deployment of renewables and increased electrification will result in an expansion of powerlines, which may overlap with the habitats or the migratory routes of certain bird species. Collision with and electrocution by powerlines is already a real threat to migratory birds, often leading to debilitating injuries and death. If proper measures are not taken, energy infrastructure may also impact the habitats of these species through habitat fragmentation and degradation.
Date & Time: 7 November 2024 at 5pm CET
Organizer: ATA Insights
Description: As more wind and solar PV generation is added to the grid, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are playing a crucial role in integrating variable renewables into a reliable grid.
However, the noise generated by these systems, ranging from 65 to 80 dBA can be a concern for nearby communities, with these issues becoming increasingly noticed and complained about. What is more, BESS solutions are getting more energy-dense which requires additional cooling. Regulation and standards aren’t clear.
This webinar will delve into effective strategies to reduce noise pollution from BESS, ensuring a harmonious coexistence between renewable energy infrastructure and residential areas.
Date & Time: 30 October 2024 at 4 pm CET
Organizer: pv magazine
Description: In this pv magazine Webinar we’ll examine of how digital technologies can support operations and asset management for large-scale onshore renewables. We’ll hear from the team at data and software company TGS on how standardization can support scalability in a PV portfolio.
Date & Time: 29 October 2024 at 12 pm EDT
Organizer: pv magazine
Description: In this pv magazine Webinar, we will offer insights into a smarter, more efficient approach to managing wind-induced challenges in utility-scale solar projects.
Date & Time: 8 October 2024 at 11 1m CEST
Organizer: IRENA
Description: While renewable energy plays a vital role in addressing global climate change, it can also have a range of other impacts on the environment (both positive and negative), such as those related to land use, water, air, soil, and biodiversity. Many of these potential impacts are linked to the location and development of renewable energy projects. Implementation of prevention measures during the project planning and permitting stages is necessary to minimise these impacts in the most practicable and cost-effective approach. Tools and policies need to be adopted to ensure that the siting of renewable energy projects does not harm biodiversity and ecosystem services. With the COP28 pledge of tripling renewables primarily driven by solar and wind expected to rapidly accelerate deployment, it is essential that policymakers are aware of the potential impacts, ways to mitigate them, best practices and examples.
This webinar will discuss the environmental impacts of solar and wind projects, highlighting solutions to incorporate environmental considerations into project siting and permitting processes. IRENA will present preliminary findings based on ongoing analytical work related to renewable energy siting and permitting and environmental impacts. A panel session joined by experts from WWF International, Birdlife International, Global Wind Energy Council and other environmental and energy stakeholders will also share their insights and experiences.
Nairobi, KENYA