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.
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:
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”.
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.
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.
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:
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.
Date: 17 June 2021
Organizer: SolarQuarter Webinars
Description: In this webinar :
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Date: 27 May 2021
Organizer: ESI Africa
Description: New real-time analytics like Linear State Estimator and Effective Inertia are dramatically improving the way the grid is operated. With applications like Dynamic Model Validation and Calibration, the plant owners and grid operators can now use the data to better predict the dynamic behaviour in many more situations.
Date: 26 May 2021
Organizer: ALER
Description: The first ALER Talk will take place on May 26 at 10:30 am with the theme "New Regulatory Framework for Renewable Energy Projects in Angola" where they will discuss the conditions that are being created to promote private investment in the development of new renewable energy projects, namely the publication of new regulations and a regime of incentives.
This session will be exclusively in Portuguese.
Date: 20 May 2021
Organizer: Solar Power Africa
Description: This collaborative Solar Power Africa Webinar in conjunction with the IDC and SAESA will focus and address the mandate of SAESA and an overview of the battery storage market. The IDC will also unpack their experience and successes in the battery storage industry, and will address the funding provided by the IDC and the criteria related to a funding bid.
Date: 20 May 2021
Organizer: AFSIA
Description: For the C&I market, the reliability of the electricity supply is essential for the economic growth of the activity. In Nigeria that regularly experiences several electrical outages, a solar hybrid system must tackle this challenge. Indeed, integrating solar PV and/or batteries with existing backup gensets unlocks PV production during the blackouts. Storage systems can be added to increase reliability and reduce fuel consumption. In this webinar, Jinko Solar and Elum Energy experts will explain their solutions to design and install a reliable solar hybrid system. They will present some use cases on existing hybrid solar projects in Commercial & Industrial (C&I) in Nigeria and West Africa.
Date: 20 May 2021
Organizer: AWEaP
Description: African Women in Energy and Power is hosting a free information sharing webinar with speakers from the private and public sector.
The webinar will cover the topic: Advancing and supporting the participation of women entrepreneurs in the Energy and Power Sector.
An energy revolution is happening in South Africa where new and cheaper renewable energy technologies are driving change in the sector. We are seeing the emergence of non-traditional electricity value chains, which presents new entrepreneurial opportunities for women, youth and people living with disabilities.
Date & Time: 5 May 2021 at 12 pm GMT
Organizer: ESI Africa
Description: Though countries across Africa are exploring ways to exploit their own gas assets the continent remains the globe’s lowest consumer of gas. Integrating gas into the domestic renewables energy sector is an ongoing quest that competes with gas exploration for export purposes.
Date: 18 May 2021
Organizer: Access to Energy Institute (A2EI)
Description: The Access to Energy Institute (A2EI) has launched its global “Climate Impact Payments Platform” (CLIPP), joining forces in a pilot project with five offgrid solar companies providing larger solar business systems and productive use appliances. At the core of the CLIPP is a data driven, fully automated set of algorithms which radically reduce the complexity of conventional results-based financing schemes to support distributors to achieve a faster scaling of climate smart technologies.
Nairobi, KENYA