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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Date: 17 May 2021

Organizer: IRENA

Description: Since 2013, IRENA has examined policies for renewable energy deployment in cities, published a series of short case studies of cities around the world, and generated a number of technical tools and planning platforms.

IRENA is now launching a set of new reports and briefs on Renewable Energy Policies for Cities. They analyse policy experiences around the world, offer case studies of selected cities in China, Uganda and Costa Rica, and discuss sectoral challenges and opportunities in the power sector, buildings, and transport. This webinar will present main findings, with a view toward the motivations and objectives that compel cities to act; the variety of drivers that either enable or constrain cities’ actions and thus influence what they can do; and the policy tools they can apply. Shaped by these factors, cities can play a multitude of roles.

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Date: 11 May 2021

Organizer: EnergyNet

Description: Three very specific and highly engaging topics have been circulated in advance and the sessions will be interactive - participants are encouraged to come with questions as well as being prepared to answer questions from the moderator.

• 09:30– 11:00 UTC (10:30- 12:00 BST): Gas for Growth – What role will the LNG terminal play in Ghana’s energy and economic future?
• 11:30- 13:00 UTC (12:30- 14:00 BST):  Energy efficiency in transmission and decentralised energy – can the introduction of new REIPPs reach the last mile and what plans are there to upgrade infrastructure, extend regional transmission lines and utilise latest technologies; what affordable funding is available?
• 14:00– 15:30 UTC (15:00- 16:30 BST): Ghana’s wholesale electricity market and trading excess power – how can the government optimise the excess supply for industry, can they create a market where the price of generation decreases and can it be redirected to agriculture, industry, manufacturing, vaccine making?

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Date: 4 May 2021

Organizers: Columbia - Global Centers Nairobi, SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) and Ifri’s Center for Energy & Climate

Description: Affordable and reliable electricity access from renewable energy sources is a prerequisite for the development of sustainable and healthy cities in sub-Saharan Africa.

In light of the growing urban population and the sector’s difficulties in expanding at the same rate, people and businesses increasingly have an incentive to use additional ways to generate electricity to meet their energy needs. If solar systems are starting to be deployed in cities, polluting diesel generators remain the preferred means for tackling grid failures. These phenomena are resulting in increased “tensions” in the region’s electrical sector, between small centralized networks and growing self-consumption. The challenge is daunting as demand for clean, reliable, and competitive electricity is expected to increase sharply, not least for addressing massive air pollution problems, for example from the transport sector.

As African cities projections will account for the bulk of the population in less than 30 years, energy usages in urban areas will be key for the continent’s sustainable energy access and energy transition.

Columbia Global Centers Nairobi, SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) and Ifri’s Center for Energy & Climate are pleased to hold this joint webinar with leading experts of the sector on the development of clean electricity systems in sub-Saharan cities.

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