Date: 29 June 2021

Organizer: PV magazine

Description: Join this PV magazine webinar and learn about the new wind mitigation strategy. Also, on the agenda, it will be discuss the differences between deploying a lot of stiffness or damping to deal with high wind conditions. 

PV magazine Webinar content:

• Storm damage in the tracker industry;
• What is the right stow angle?
• FTC Solar’s new wind mitigation system;
• Aeroelastic stability of trackers and wind tunnel reports;
• Q&A.

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Date: 29 June 2021

Organizer: IRENA

Description: Population growth leading to an overload on existing infrastructure, place cities increasingly at the forefront of challenges in the quest for a global energy transition. These challenges call for innovative and collaborative efforts from stakeholders to consciously embrace sustainable energy practices to achieve carbon-neutral goals.

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Date: 28 June 2021

Organizer: PV magazine

Description: Join this PV magazine Webinar and learn how the REC Alpha Pure has achieved the advancements on solar sustainability,   ensures lasting high power, and discuss the critical role that sustainable manufacturing will play moving forward. 

PV magazine Webinar content:

• REC Alpha Pure Module design specifics: HJT cells (half cut), advanced cell connections, gapless cell layout, Twin module design, strong frame, leading temperature coefficient, high power density, lead free;
• The significance of REC Alpha Pure’s achievement of being lead-free;
• The importance of proven, consistent, and long-term high quality when choosing modules.

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Date: 25 June 2021

Organizer: IRENA

Description: IRENA is organising a side event in the margins of the Ministerial Thematic Forum on "Climate Investment Platform: Catalysing Concerted Action on the Ground towards Achieving Global Energy Transition". The event will be organised in the form of a panel discussion focused on the example of the Climate Investment Platform (CIP), with participation of CIP founding partners as panellists.

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Date & Time: 24 June 2021 at 11 am CEST

Organizer: ATA Insights

Description: The South African energy landscape is faced with the unique challenge and opportunity to become more energy secure by using renewable sources for future generation. The nation and country have long been disturbed by frequent blackouts, outdated electricity infrastructure with supply constraints, and an urgent need for additional capacity to prevent load shedding.

The country has prioritised a fast-track basis for large-scale dispatchable energy capacity to bridge the gap between demand and supply.

For the first time on such a scale, hybrid plants, including renewables, storage, and thermal power, have been offered and have resulted competitive to provide dispatchable power and are currently navigating to reach financial close no later than end-July 2021.

Besides the co-location of RE and energy storage, South Africa is also considering stand-alone solutions, currently under the Eskom program, to provide direct balance services and attenuate the impact of renewable energy generation on the grid. 

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Date: 24 June 2021

Organizers: IRENA and SELCO Foundation

Description: Decentralized renewable energy (DRE) solutions will play a central role in achieving universal modern energy access. Linking such solutions with livelihoods across sectors, such as agriculture, cottage industry, tourism and retail, offers the opportunity to translate electricity connections and kilowatt-hours into higher incomes for communities and enterprises, local jobs and well-being in rural and peri-urban areas.

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Date: 24 June 2021

Organizers: IRENA and World Health Organization

Description: On the margins of the 2021 High-level Dialogue on Energy, Ministerial Thematic Forums, IRENA and the World Health Organization co-organise this event, titled, Energy Access for promoting Universal Health Coverage and for Achieving multiple SDGs.

The meeting will bring together stakeholders from the energy, health and other sectors to reflect on the key role that renewable energy plays in the achievement of universal healthcare and in the attainment of various SDGs. The event will provide participants the opportunity to share experiences, lessons learned and best practices, and to explore modalities to enhance multisectoral cooperation.

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Date: 24 June 2021

Organizers: IRENA and REN21

Description: IRENA and REN21 is organising a side event during the Ministerial Thematic Forum on Enabling SDGs Through Inclusive, Just Energy Transitions of the UN High Level Dialogue. This event will launch the 2021 Climate Action Pathway for Energy (version 2.1) to showcase updates on the milestones to 2050.

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Date: 23 June 2021

Organizers: Trina Solar and ATA Insights

Description: As photovoltaic energy becomes more competitive, more African countries have deployed – or plan to install – renewable energy projects to reduce their carbon footprint and improve energy quality.

Although the learning curve may be steep, inexperienced players will be able to leverage the lessons learned in Egypt, South Africa and Morocco and implement this knowledge into development plans.

On this webinar, it will be explored the key aspects that installers and project developers need to consider when designing and building new PV projects in Africa:

• Understand which are the key aspects that you should consider when designing your PV system to maximize the return on your investment;
• Hear fist-hand experiences on the best practices to develop photovoltaic installations, from design to construction and start-up of the project;
• Learn from the manufacturer how new modules and trackers are adapting to cover market needs and improve the productivity of solar generation projects.

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Date: 23 June 2021

Organizers: IRENA and Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Description: IRENA and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany, also a Country Champion of the Energy Transitions Theme, are organising a side event in the margins of the Ministerial Thematic Forum on “Renewable Energy Transitions in Africa”.

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Date: 22 June 2021

Organizer: ESI Africa

Description: Wind + solar with a slice of energy storage = reliable, dispatchable power that up to now has always been the preserve of fossil fuel generation.  One site, one interconnection, many MW of clean, grid-friendly energy. That is the promise of the hybrid RE system. The new frontier to decarbonisation of the global energy system. 

The idea looks great on paper but in reality, the hybrid grid is a mix of interconnected complexities relating to cost, technology and market drivers. No two hybrid systems are alike. Market drivers – grid constraints, grid stability or fast-response ancillary services – differ from country to country.  

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Date: 22 June 2021

Organizers: SegenSolar and South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE)

Description: SegenSolar is proud to invite you to attend its first webinar collaboration with the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE), focusing specifically on the South African National Standards (SANS) for PV solar systems. This session will outline the detail of the standard, the wiring of premises and provide guidance and clarity on the specific requirements for South African installations.

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Date: 22 June 2021

Organizer: AWEaP

Description: Participating in the energy and power sector as a start-up energy company requires that you gain knowledge into how the sector procures products, services, solutions and systems.

Join on the 22 June at 12h00 for a conversation on the following topics:

• Electricity Utility opportunities and procurement: The electricity sector is going through a transition. Every transition brings with it entrepreneurial opportunities. In this conversation we explore opportunities and how to follow procurement processes and policies to increase your success chances.
• Power and Energy: Original Equipment Manufacturers: South Africa’s transition into clean energy technologies such as wind, solar, waste and other combinations of clean energy means that there is an increasing demand of products, solutions and systems from multi-national companies. In this conversation we explore how start up power and energy companies can work collaboratively with OEMs to capture emerging opportunities.
• Developing a renewable energy project: The Integrated Resources Plan (IRP) is the key electricity policy planning instrument of government. Recently there has been the Risk-Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RMIPPPP) and the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Program (REIPPPP) Bid Window 5. The REIPPP Bid Window 5 seeks to procure 1 GW of PV and 1.6 GW of wind power. Many entrepreneurs are wondering how they can participate in these opportunities. In this conversation we explore where you can access consulting support as you develop your energy project.
• Access to finance is a challenge for any entrepreneur especially for a high capital intensive sector like energy. In this conversation we look at finance for energy projects.

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Date: 21 June 2021

Organizer: Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE)

Description: The session “Catalysing Private Sector Investments in Decentralised Renewables to Close the Energy Access Gap” will focus on how to further mobilise private sector investments in energy access and it will also shed a light on the need for investment readiness support for DRE companies to absorb investments in the sector.

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Date: 17 June 2021

Organizer: SolarQuarter Webinars

Description: In this webinar :

• Longi will explain how high-performance modules can improve power plant performance;
• Solar MD will highlight the cost-savings application allowed with an energy storage system;
• Elum Energy will explore how EMS orchestrates energy sources and collects data for better power plant enforcement.

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Date & Time: 8 June 2021 at 7 pm GST

Organizer: IRENA

Description: This edition of the IRENA Youth Talk, co-organised with Enel Foundation, will be held under the overarching theme “Energy Transition Heroes: Addressing equity and climate challenges through renewables-based energy transitions” and aims at engaging youth in an interactive virtual dialogue in which various challenges and opportunities on how to achieve a just and inclusive energy transition will be discussed.

By analysing and discussing the positive contribution that young people can provide to strengthen and speed up the energy transition processes, this edition of the IRENA Youth Talk will highlight options and solutions to overcome the vicious ‘climate-inequalities’ circle through the establishment of a sustainable and resilient energy sector.

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Date & Time: 4 June 2021 at 4 pm CAT

Organizer: Energy Innovation Network

Description: The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are inextricably linked, and as such require effective and efficient solutions. Solutions that promote integration across different sectors while at the same time reducing the risk of sector specifications undermining each other. Today’s complex policy challenges, the abundance of data and information, scientific controversies and post-fact politics make it essential to shift to a nexus approach that promotes integration across different sectors and challenges existing policies, structures and procedures at the global, regional and sub-regional levels.

Energy Innovation Network Team will announce a series of webinar talks addressing challenges in all sub-regions in Africa in the upcoming months.

On June 4th, join for the first interactive session of our Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Africa webinar series with three regional experts to discuss how we can promote the integration of goals across energy, food, and water resources sectors and reduce the risk of sector-specific actions undermining each other.

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Date: 4 June 2021

Organizer: JA Solar

Description: This year 2021 JA Solar are bringing New technologies directly from SNEC PV Power Expo to your doorstep.

We are glad to invite you to JA Solar Africa SNEC 2021 PV Power Expo Webinar to discover new trends and discuss with industry players!

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Date: 31 May 2021

Organizer: IRENA

Description: With the increased penetration of renewable energy into our energy mix, policy makers and project developers are seeking to improve access to good quality resource data and to reduce resource associated risks in project development.

The IRENA Global Atlas for Renewable Energy is a free online resource-assessment tool for users to search and locate renewable energy opportunities. It provides the user with a better understanding of the renewable energy potential in a country or region.

IRENA is launching the new version of the Global Atlas for Renewable Energy platform, which enhances users’ experience with revised renewable resource maps that are complimented with supplementary data, such as protected areas. The user-friendly platform includes newly added functionalities to enable effective mapping of resource potentials and perform advanced renewable energy-site prospecting.

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Date: 28 May 2021

Organizer: SolarPower Europe

Description: African countries are in a unique position to reap the socio-economic and environmental benefits of renewable energy resources to meet their increasing energy demand in a sustainable way. However, the difficulty of attracting sufficient and affordable finance is an obstacle to building more solar projects in Africa.

The financing costs of a solar project are a function of the capital needs from investors and the returns demanded by these investors, and usually consist of a mix of debt and equity. The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is a measure to express the average financing cost of a project. 

Studies show that the WACC in African countries can be several times higher than in European countries. Therefore, counter-intuitively, solar electricity might be cheaper in a low-sun and low-risk country in Europe than in an African country with a higher level of solar irradiation. De-risking policies and financing mechanisms can reduce the perceived or actual investment risks and barriers and bring the cost of capital down, ultimately leading to a boost in the construction of new solar projects. 

The webinar, organised by SolarPower Europe and supported by GET.invest – a European programme supported by the European Union, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Austria – will gather African and European experts to shed light on how to reduce the levels of cost of capital for solar projects in Africa.

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