Date: 16 February 2022
Organizers: energypedia, AMER, Cooperação Alemã and GIZ
Description: This is a follow-up webinar to the Webinar on "Solar Powered Irrigation Systems for Small-scale Farmers in Mozambique" held in Dec 2021. In this webinar, we will dive deeper into the solar irrigation topic and have an interactive session where the audience can directly pose their questions to the experts.
Date & CET: 15 February 2022 at 10 am CET
Organizers: energypedia, AMER, Cooperação Alemã and GIZ
Description: At the intersection of energy access, socio-economic development and climate change, decentralised renewable energy (DRE) can be a strong ally to generate at least 4.5 million direct jobs by 2030 and build on Africa’s emerging pool of women and youth talents to accelerate Africa’s green recovery.
In the context of ARE’s DRE Recovery Campaign, supported by GET.invest– a programme supported by the European Union, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Austria, that promotes investments in renewable energy, the session will showcase catalytic business models to support rural communities recover better and faster from the pandemic by promoting sustainable economic development and job creation for woman and youth in rural economies.
The session 'Creating Jobs and Empowering Women & Youth via Renewable Electrification in Africa' on 15 February 2022 at 10.00 CET will take place in the framework of the EU-Africa Business Forum.
Date & Time: 10 February 2022 at 2 pm GMT
Organizer: PV Magazine
Description: Sustainability and the environmental impact of PV plants is fast climbing up the agenda. Indeed, it is becoming increasingly essential to consider the entire life cycle of PV when making decisions about materials and products. For PV plants, mounting systems have a key role to play in improving solar’s green credentials, from the perspective of both projects and companies.
Steel is the material of choice when it comes to mounting systems due to its relative low cost, robustness, infinite recyclability potential, and its long-term durability when combined with the latest generation of protective coatings against corrosion. Given these benefits, and combined with new production technologies, the use of steel will continue to grow in popularity when it comes to the engineering and manufacturing of mounting structures with a minimised environmental footprint.
Date: 27 January 2022
Organizer: Odyssey
Description: As a solar developer/ asset operator we often find ourselves under pressure to improve asset performance. However, with the lack of tools and data at hand, the task seems daunting. With developments in remote monitoring and management technologies, the industry is seeing some major breakthroughs.
Join us as we bring together industry experts and practitioners to discuss the trends in this swiftly changing field as part of the webinar on ‘The Evolving Role of Remote Management Technologies in Distributed Power Systems’.
Date: 27 January 2022
Organizer: A2EI
Description: Clean e-cooking has a tremendous ecological and socio-economic impact for previously underserved communities. And electric metering technologies have the potential to explicitly demonstrate that impact.
In our recent full Clean Cooking Data Report, the A2EI explored the usage of electric pressure cookers on remote mini-grid sites in Tanzania using a 14 month dataset gathered by our smart meter technology. Please access the report and data here: https://a2ei.org/news/clean-cooking-full-data-release-report.
On Jan 27 we will host a webinar discussing the report, our smart meter technology, current and future projects, and options to accelerate clean e-cooking with data - and provide the opportunity for Q&A.
Date: 26 January 2022
Organizer: AFSIA
Description: The 2nd edition of the AFSIA Annual Outlook report will be released on January 19.
In this event, AFSIA CEO will walk you through the key developments of 2021 and what may be expected for 2022.
We will also take a moment to guide you through the report to make sure you get the most value out of this info-rich document about the African solar industry.
Date: 17 January 2022
Organizers: Government of Ethiopia, FCDO Africa Clean Energy Technical Assistance Facility Programme and World Resources Institute
Description: The Government of Ethiopia, in collaboration with the FCDO Africa Clean Energy Technical Assistance Facility Programme and the World Resources Institute, would like to invite you to the launch of the Energy Access Explorer (EAE) for Ethiopia.
EAE is an online, open-source, interactive, geospatial platform that enables clean energy entrepreneurs, energy planners, donors, and development-oriented institutions to identify high priority areas where energy access can be expanded. Using spatial data to link energy supply with growing or unmet demand is essential to gaining a better picture of energy access and expanding energy services to those who need it the most. Furthermore, EAE functions as a dynamic Geographic Information System and data repository which reduces software engineering and data transaction costs both for data providers and users.
Date & Time: 14 December 2021 at 10 am GMT
Organizer: ALER
Description: This webinar aims to present the Energy Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Report (2010-2019), co-financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and by ONUDI and to give the Transport and Energy in STP sectors and the Water and Electricity Company (EMAE) the opportunity to expose their work in the same period, to inform the perspectives of developments and development of the same sectors, and how they plan to reduce the associated greenhouse gas emissions.
Date & Time: 14 December 2021
Organizer: Solarbe
Description: Africa has abundant renewable energy resources. With recent substantial cost reductions, solar photovoltaic offers a rapid, cost-effective way to provide utility-scale electricity for the grid and modern energy services to the approximately 600 million Africans who lack electricity access.
In terms of global regions, north Africa has the lowest share of renewable energy in terms of overall energy consumption. In spite of this, north Africa boasts enormous renewable potential, particularly solar power. Furthermore, the acceptance of solar power across MENA is growing, in alignment with the increasingly affordable costs of the technology and systems to facilitate it. The technology behind PV modules is advancing, and so is battery storage, as the solar market matures.
The speech recently delivered by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the opening ceremony of the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is also significant and draws blueprints for the development of China-Africa relations by putting more efforts on solar and renewable development.
Date: 7 December 2021
Organizers: IRENA and Enel Foundation
Description: The final edition of the “Energy Transition Heroes” series, organised by IRENA and Enel Foundation, aims at setting the future agenda for youth engagement in the fight against climate change through a renewables-based energy transition. Young leaders from across the globe will come together to elaborate on the lessons learned from Pre-COP and COP26 and the role of youth in global climate actions.
This webinar discusses the next steps for youth leaders to implement the outcome of COP26 and to actively engage in the energy transition for a sustainable future, in order to set the future agenda to boost the fight against climate change. Thus, this Youth Talk will be dedicated to the overarching theme “Energy Transition to Boost the Fight Against Climate Change: Setting the Future Agenda”.
The IRENA Youth Talk will be conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation in Arabic, French and Spanish.
Date: 7 December 2021
Organizer: PV Magazine
Description: In this PV Magazine Webinar, we will learn about field forensics and forensic analysis and discuss the process of action planning, underperformance attribution, and solutions engineering. Dr. Ralph Romero, Senior Managing Director of Infrastructure Modernization at Black and Veatch, will explain the role of forensic analysis in better managing solar assets in a distributed infrastructure. Joining him is Daniel Chang, Vice President of Business Development at RETC, presenting RETC’s forensics and lab service as a “one-stop shop” for understanding PV performance.
Date & Time: 30 November 2021 at 1 pm GMT
Organizer: AFSIA
Description: e-Mobility is a global trend potentially revolutionizing the way people move all across the globe. But mobility in Africa is in a very different stage of development than in other parts of the world. And as a result, e-mobility in Africa also has to offer dedicated and adapted solutions to be efficient.
In this webinar it will be:
Date & Time: 30 November 2021 at 12 pm GMT
Organizer: ESI Africa
Description: In Africa, the bulk of C&I solar PV installations is centred on commercial, tourism, manufacturing, and extractive industry sectors, with shopping centres becoming an increasingly important sub-segment.
This growth is spurred by challenges facing the C&I market, which include a lack of access to electricity and the financing and pricing of backup systems. However, accessing debt financing from local and international markets is difficult due to the small capacity size of C&I projects. In addition, regulations for these small projects can prove to be a hindrance.
As such, solar PV and storage system market developments will be unpacked for you in an upcoming information sharing webinar.
Join GoodWe and an industry expert from Elum Energy as they discuss what makes Africa such an attractive market as well as the challenges that come with developing projects in the region.
The panel will address how partnering with more experienced international developers may help local developers and project owners with a smaller track record to obtain financing for their solar installations.
Date & Time: 30 November 2021
Organizers: ALER and AMER
Description: ALER (Lusophone Renewable Energy Association) and AMER (Mozambican Renewable Energy Association), with the support of GET.invest Mozambique - funded by the European Union and Germany, and part of the European programme GET.invest,are organising the "Renewables for Self-consumption in Mozambique" conference on 30th November 2021.
The goal of the event is to present the self-consumption market potential in Mozambique, in particular in the Commercial and Industrial (C&I) sector, characterize its demand and give voice to its clients, while also raising awareness about the potential of renewable energies to tackle consumers’ energy needs.
The programme is divided into four panels. In the morning, the regulatory framework and the advantages and benefits of renewable’s self-consumption projects will be discussed, and in the afternoon relevant case studies and the topic of financing these projects will be presented.
Date & Time: 29 November 2021 at 2 pm GMT
Organizers: PV Magazine
Description: An increasing number of people choose to design their PV system so it can be used even when the grid power has gone – as a back-up, so to speak. But there are markets where off-grid PV is not the back-up solution, but it is the primary source of power. There are numerous examples ranging from holiday homes and house boats in the south of Europe, to remote farmhouses, and rural regions in Africa and Asia where people don’t always have grid access.
To this end, the webinar partner Solis has introduced its latest off-grid inverter which kicks into life at a mere 500 V input voltage. That gives the device an advantage during morning and evening hours, when system voltages will drop a bit. And as versatile as the list of possible users for an off-grid inverter is the list of Solis’ functions it has packed into machine.
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Date & Time: 25 November 2021 at 12 pm GMT
Organizers: ESI Africa
Description: Operational Technology (OT) Leaders continue to face cybersecurity challenges as the shift to work from home due to the pandemic has accelerated IT-OT network convergence.
This accelerated digital transformation puts OT Organizations at increased risk to cyber-attacks.
Join for a high-level discussion around the Future cybersecurity considerations of the energy sector for Africa and how the Fortinet Security Fabric can enable the Energy Sector.
Date & Time: 25 November
Organizers: SAPVIA
Description: Considering the energy trends over the last year, it’s clear that solar PV and energy storage is creating an attractive solution to the energy requirement from small-scale residential application all the way through to utility-scale plants. While solar PV and energy storage continues to grow in popularity, we will discuss the possibilities in the south African distributed generation market segment. The future is bright as we look at more opportunities to advance the distributed solar PV (and energy storage) agenda.
Date: 16 November 2021
Organizer: ESI Africa
Description: The number of solar PV systems being installed worldwide continues to increase as prices fall and decarbonisation incentives ramp up.
Field studies show that a significant number of modules fail in the field long before their expected end of lifetime, and often within the first ten years. This shows that the IEC testing is not sufficient to predict the long term durability and reliability of solar PV modules.
Testing and certification of modules can also play a big part in the levelised cost of energy (LCOE) of a solar PV system. But, why do some modules end up costing more than others, even if they all are deemed “tier 1”?
During this webinar, it will be discuss what these extended reliability tests really mean for the quality, reliability and performance of Solar PV modules.
Date & Time: 16 November 2021 at 3 pm CET
Organizers: GOGLA and IFC Lighting Global
Description: Accounting policies play a crucial but often overlooked role in the management of any company. As a relatively new sector operating primarily in emerging markets, the PAYGo solar sector confronts this regularly. PAYGo solar companies have a challenge deciding which accounting policies they can or should use to manage their businesses and present them to the outside world. Investors in turn may find it difficult to understand what accounting standards a PAYGo company is using and how this affects its financial position or compares to its competitors.
The proliferation of accounting practices across PAYGo firms emerged as an important topic during the PAYGo PERFORM initiative–the different practices used could produce substantial impacts on the calculation of the PERFORM KPIs, and in turn make a comparison of the KPIs across companies more difficult. To help address this, IFC Lighting Global and GOGLA commissioned MFR to produce a review of accounting practices in the PAYGo sector, with the goal of increasing awareness and transparency of the different accounting treatments used in PAYGo firms and their impact on financial reporting.
Join on November 16 at 3:00 pm CET where GOGLA and IFC Lighting Global will officially launch this Accounting Brief. The webinar will introduce the participants to the brief, share an overview of the accounting policies used by PAYGo solar companies, and review the impacts this can have on financial reporting and the PERFORM KPIs, using data collected from a group of PAYGo companies that devoted valuable time to share their practices.
Date: 9 November 2021
Organizer: ESI Africa
Description: Digitisation is playing an important role in achieving NetZero, especially in support of the intermittency, reduced fault levels and network capacity issues resulting from the growth in distributed energy resources.
The distributed nature of renewable energy sources requires intelligence to be implemented in unmanned substations. As smart switchgear and other nodes are becoming an integral part of network designs, it is essential they are suitably robust for the environment and contribute to increasing the reliability of the networks.
Nairobi, KENYA