Date & Time: 25 March 2021 at 3 pm CET

Organizers: RES4Africa Foundation and GECOL

Description: In 2013, The Libyan Government launched the Renewable Energy Strategic 2013-2025 Plan, which aims to achieve 7% renewable energy contribution to the electric energy mix by 2020, and 10% by 2025. Nonetheless, recent political conflicts, together with lack of adequate policies, feed-in tariffs and lack of financial tools and guaranties are hampering the full development of the country’s potential, in terms of renewable energy sources.

In order to propose answers and solutions to those issues, RES4Africa Foundation and GECOL are organising a webinar, scheduled for the 25th March 2021, with the aim of sheding light on the renewable energy potential in Libya.

Through this webinar, RES4Africa Foundation aims to promote Public-Private Dialogue on the barriers and drivers for renewable energy investments in Libya with a focus on regulatory and infrastructure, as well as on the features of a bankable Power Purchase Agreement for the renewable energy sector in Libya.

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Date: 24 - 25 March 2021

Organizer: AFSIA

Description: Hydrogen has been used for several decades by industrial companies because of its great convenience as fuel stock with regards to storage and transport. And thanks to decreasing cost of renewables, the potential for green hydrogen is now growing exponentially and opening new avenues of use for hydrogen.

The success of green hydrogen will be linked to its production cost and the African solar industry is ideally positioned to play a major role in this global industry as the continent enjoys some of the best solar resources in the world.

But other factors may still prove challenging and could limit the extent to which Africa will benefit from this nascent industry.

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Date: 24 March 2021

Organizers: ALER and AMER

Description: On 24 March, the Lusophone Renewable Energy Association (ALER) and the Mozambican Renewable Energy Association (AMER) will organize the Seminar Opportunities for IPP Projects: Renewables in Mozambique 2021, in cooperation with GET.invest Mozambique - funded by the European Union and Germany, and part of the European programme GET.invest, and in partnership with the Confederation of Economic Associations (CTA), Mozambique Women in Energy (MWE) and Solar Power Europe.

The Seminar is targeting:

1. Promoters with interest in the development of renewable IPP projects in Mozambique and;
2. Mozambican companies that may be partners or service providers of IPP promoters, including construction companies, equipment and service providers, investors, and financial institutions. The participation of companies of the entire Mozambican territory is encouraged.

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Date & Time: 23 March 2021 at 10 am CET

Organizer: IRENA

Description: Following the Part 1 of the Hydrogen webinar series, which focused on the policy support for hydrogen to achieve its future potential as an ubiquitous energy carrier, part 2 will on the cost of production to increase hydrogen’s competitiveness. Most of the production cost of green hydrogen is the electricity input. Renewable electricity is already cost competitive in most regions and will continue to become cheaper in the coming years. The next largest cost component is the electrolyser.

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Date & Time: 16 March 2021 at 10 am CET

Organizer: ATA Insights

Description: Utilities and businesses are turning their attention to distributed solar projects, much smaller sources of PV solar which can provide access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for businesses and citizens across Middle East and Africa.

On this note, Trina solar has launched its new ultra-high-performance Vertex S module, bringing the benefits of the 210mm wafer format to commercial and residential rooftop projects.

In this webinar, will be explored how to design and construct rooftop installations in the age of ultra-high-performance modules to achieve the lowest LCOE on your solar projects.

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Date & Time: 16 March 2021 at 4 pm SAST

Organizer: African Energy Chamber

Description: The African Energy Chamber (Chamber) hosts a virtual book launch for its inaugural advisory book titled, African Energy Road To Recovery: How The African Energy Industry Can Reshape Itself For A Post COVID-19 Comeback on March, 16th at 4PM SAST.  Moderated by Senior Vice President of the African Energy Chamber, Verner Verner Ayukegba, the discussion will also include CEO of Shoreline Natural Resources, Kola Karim, Chief Executive Officer of Energy & Natural Resource Security, Inc, C. Derek Campbell, and Principal Program Manager, Jovita Nsho.

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Date & Time: 11 March 2021 at 3 pm CET

Organizer: ATA Insights

Description: There is a difference between speaking about battery storage from a theoretical perspective and actually considering commercially available realistic options available to your project today. This webinar focuses on exploring the best solutions today; considering the technological, financial and durability limitations offered by the different manufacturers.

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Date & Time: 11 March 2021 at 2:30 pm - 5 pm EAT

Organizer: Precise Consult and African Clean Energy Technical Assistance Facility

Description: The speakers will share experiences from their countries and explore different opportunities as well as challenges facing the SAS sector.

The three main areas of discussion include:

• Aligning the energy access approach in East Africa;
• How to attract investment for solar energy in agriculture with experiences from the field;
• Solving the forex challenge in Ethiopia.

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Date & Time: 11 March 2021 at 1 pm - 3 pm GMT

Organizer: The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) and The World Bank

Description: This launch event presented by The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) and The World Bank will showcase and answer questions on upcoming opportunities pertaining to the African renewable energy market, and more specifically to the SME off-grid market, as well as on the TDB SME Off-Grid Facility, explaining its objective, intended impacts and ways various stakeholders can benefit from it.

After an initial general discussion by both institutions, and a presentation of the new TDB Renewable Energy DealRoom, developed in collaboration with Asoko Insight, the floor will open for an interactive Q&A discussion session.

Participants from the following industry sectors are invited to join us on 15 March 2021 at 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm GMT / 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EAT  to learn about this exciting initiative:

• SHS and off-grid investors
• Off-grid distribution and consumer finance SMEs
• Off-grid equipment suppliers
• Private equity, impact funds and other institutional investors
• Energy service companies
• Development finance institutions
• Commercial Banks
• Media

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Date & Time: 9 March 2021 at 10 am CET

Organizer: IRENA

Description: The last two years have seen an increased focus on net zero emissions energy systems. To achieve this goal, even the most difficult to abate sectors need to be tackled. Hydrogen can complement electrification and energy efficiency in achieving this goal. Green hydrogen can link the renewable electricity with those applications that are difficult to electrify, while providing flexibility to the power system.

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Date & Time: 25 February 2021 at 11 am GMT

Organizer: ESI Africa

Description: With energy storage emerging as a vital technology for utilities to optimise their operations, accelerate renewables adoption and ensure the reliability of grid network, what role is the technology playing in helping grid operators achieve their goals and what are these goals?

With the US battery energy storage market set to grow from 1.2GW in 2020 to nearly 7.5GW (and 26.5 GWh) in 2025 (Wood Mackenzie) and Europe’s electricity networks in need of up to 485GWh of storage capacity by 2040 to meet climate targets ( ENTSO-E), how and where does energy storage generate value for both utilities and consumers?

Applications vary with the end goal but include energy arbitrage to offset costs, flexible peaking resources, frequency regulation to ensure AC current remains within the exact required tolerance bounds of the grid, reserve capacity.

Register to attend this webinar to understand which energy storage use cases are seeing widespread adoption.

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Date & Time: 25 February 2021 at 1 pm GMT

Organizer: ESI Africa

Description: Solar power has the potential to provide sustainable energy used for water pumping by more than 95%, compared to alternative resources.

In recent years, solar-powered irrigation has become increasingly attractive to countries as a reliable, clean-energy solution for agricultural water management, especially in areas with low elevation topography and high solar radiation incidence levels.

In this webinar, guest experts will spotlight how Sub-Saharan African countries can simultaneously work towards agricultural development, gainful employment, rural poverty reduction and the sustainable management of natural resources, especially water.

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Date & Time: 25 February 2021 at 3:30 pm CET

Organizer: IRENA

Description: This webinar will gather public and private sector stakeholders to discuss key opportunities and challenges faced by companies setting and implementing corporate renewable energy heating and cooling targets, including how policies can be designed to effectively encourage the use of renewable heating and cooling in industry. Discussions will include successful examples of companies that are transitioning to 100% renewable energy and have set ambitious renewable energy targets for their heating and cooling operations.

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Date & Time: 23 February 2021 at 12 pm GMT

Organizer: ESI Africa

Description: Financing to mitigate or adapt to looming climate issues is receiving more attention but still lags behind traditional thermal generation and commonplace operational considerations. 

While an increasing number of governments are starting to consider a more sustainable energy transition as central to future climate strategies, this philosophy raises queries around finding the balance between embracing clean energy and exploiting least-cost resources.

In this live webinar, our guests unpack the concern around the role of traditional generation in the energy transition where Africa’s more immediate problem is that of modernisation and expansion.

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Date & Time: 23 February 2021 at 11 am GMT

Organizer: IRENA

Description: Building the skill base necessary for achieving the energy transition requires the implementation of education and training policies and programmes that address the need to reskill and upskill the existing energy workforce as well as educate a new generation of energy professionals. This webinar will share preliminary findings from the upcoming brief on renewable energy education and training and will showcase examples of policies and initiatives including public-private partnerships for training; enhanced curriculum frameworks; teacher training; ICT utilisation for skill delivery; and recruitment of underrepresented groups.

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Date & Time: 23 February 2021 at 11 am CAT

Organizer: AFSIA

Description: Even more than access to electricity, access to (drinkable) water can be a challenge across Africa. Luckily, more and more ingenious technology is being developed to use existing water resources for irrigation or for human consumption.

These technologies are inextricably linked to solar as this often is the only way to power them.

In this webinar you will learn about solutions combining solar energy and water and changing the lives of millions across Africa.

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Date: 20 January 2021

Organizers: GOGLA, ESMAP and Lighting Global

Description: Solar home systems, productive use equipment, mini grids, and other decentralized renewable technologies transform the lives and livelihoods of those living in energy poverty, and have provided first time access to millions of low income and rural households. Yet even before the COVID-19 pandemic, estimates projected that hundreds of millions of people would still be unable to afford off-grid solar solutions by 2030. The impact of COVID-19 has pushed a further 70 million people into extreme poverty, intensifying this “affordability gap”. 

End-user subsidies, which directly reduce costs for consumers, have the potential to address the affordability challenge and enable energy access for the most vulnerable communities. However, for them to be as effective as possible, they must be considered alongside other enablers, such as supportive fiscal policy and supply side subsidies. In addition, as end-user subsidies are complex and create the risk of market distortion - which can hamper other energy access efforts - they need to be designed very carefully.

This webinar will explore the ‘smart’ design of end-user subsidies to address this complexity and uncover solutions. It will have a particular focus on stand alone solar technologies.

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Date: 16 - 17 February 2021

Organizer: R&I Partnership ‘Climate Change and Sustainable Energy’ of the AU-EU High-Level Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology and Innovation (HLPD)

Description: The Workshop “COVID-19 and the Health-Energy-Climate Nexus” will take place virtually on 16th - 17th February 2021. This event is organised by the R&I Partnership ‘Climate Change and Sustainable Energy’ of the AU-EU High-Level Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology and Innovation (HLPD).

Strengthening the Africa-Europe partnership on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy’ (CCSE) and linking research and innovation hubs, to test solutions with research funding opportunities and to fuel innovation, are the main objectives of the event.

The event will be divided in two thematic sessions and will involve, research and international institutions, academia, the private sector and policy makers.

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Date & Time: 15 December 2020 at 10:30 am CAT/CET and 2:30 pm CAT/CET

Organizer: AMER

Description: As part of the discussions on Private Sector Perspectives in Renewable Energy in Mozambique, AMER invites to the fourth part of its webinar series on 15 December 2020. The webinar, supported by GET.invest, the Lusophone Renewable Energy Association (ALER), SolarPower Europe (SPE) and the Kreishandwerkerschaft Steinfurt-Warendorf (KH+S), will cover the market segment of Independent Power Producers (IPP).

Divided into two sessions (A and B), from 10:30 to 12:00 and from 14:30 to 15:30 CAT/CET respectively, the webinar will delve into a range of topics, including technical requirements, legal and regulatory framework, access to finance and risk.

Part one will include a round table discussion on IPPs in Mozambique. For this purpose, companies working in the area have been invited to present their activities and visions for the future of the sector. Dr. Olga Utchavo, representative of national energy company Electricidade de Moçambique, E.P. (EDM), will speak on the prospects for renewable energy in the country.

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Date & Time: 5 January 2021 at 1 pm - 1:30 pm GMT

Organizers: IRENA

Description: The webinar explains the role of thermal energy storage (TES) in the global energy transition. The information is based on IRENA’s recently released report “Innovation Outlook: Thermal energy Storage”. TES technologies can address some challenges in energy systems including, for example, decoupling heating and cooling demand from immediate power generation and supply availability, as well as balancing seasonal energy supply variations for thermal applications. The report outlines the pathway for the different TES technologies in the decade to come. The suitable TES technologies, their applications and expected development are elaborated for five applications: power, industry, buildings, district heating and cooling, and cold chains.

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