Date & Time: Tuesday 20 February 2018, 11:00 CET
Organizer: ata insights
Description: The cost of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) has already come down below US$ 10 cents/kWh, an impressive achievement considering that 10 years ago US$ 37 cents/kWh was the norm.
In this webinar, we will hear from the innovators who are pushing CSP costs to new lows and will analyze how novel technologies will bring disruptive cost-savings to bear.
Date & Time: Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:00 CET
Organizer: ata insights
Description: PV developers are increasingly looking into adding battery storage to their projects, either because they are requested by the tenders or because dispatchability facilitates financial structuring of the project.
Date & Time: Wednesday 14 February 2018, 11:00 CET
Organizer: ata insights
Description: In 2009, the Tunisian government adopted “Plan Solaire Tunisien” or Tunisia Solar Plan to achieve 4.7 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030 which includes the use of solar photovoltaic systems, solar water heating systems and solar concentrated power units, implemented by STEG.
This webinar will look into the current status of the renewable energy market and the opportunities for companies along the supply chain.
Date & Time: Tuesday 13 February 2018, 11:00 CET
Organizer: ata insights
Description: With an abundance of land, sunny weather and burgeoning energy demand, Egypt could prove fertile ground for a growing solar industry. Egypt’s solar energy plan aims to install 3.5 GW by 2027; including 2.8 GW of PV (photovoltaic) and 700 MW of CSP (concentrated solar power). This webinar will analyze the opportunities in the Egyptian market.
Date & Time: Tuesday 19 December 2017, 13:00 CET
Organizer: ata insights
Description: As a relatively new technology, banks and financial institutions are having to actively learn how to deal with the risk of financing batteries alongside PV projects. This webinar explores the tools and financial structures that can be used for the first set of projects.
Date & Time: Tuesday 12 December 2017, 13:00 CET
Organizer: ata insights
Description: Battery storage is changing the energy game, with many multi-MW battery projects already being built across the world. This webinar explores the availability of batteries and the role they will play in managing load shifting of energy to the grid from photovoltaic plants.
Date & Time: Thursday 16 November 2017, 11:00 CET
Organizer: ata insights
Description: Heat and steam generation can be complicated to source for industrial players. In fact, for commercial and industrial (C&I) purposes, the demand for heat is vastly superior to the demand for electricity (74% vs 26% respectively). In this webinar, we explore the cost-opportunity for industrial players to use solar as their main source of heat and steam.
Date & Time: Wednesday 15 November 2017, 11:00 CET
Organizer: ata insights
Description: Over past decade, PV has gone from an early adopter to a mainstream technology. In that process, the industry has professionalized greatly. Today, more than 340 GW are installed and PPAs have dropped from 45 US$ cents in 2006 to around 3 US$ cents kWh in 2017.
With PV margins getting thinner, the industry is more competitive than ever; and optimizing every aspect of the design, construction and operation is essential to win projects and lead the industry.
Date & Time: Thursday, 26 October 2017 - 15h30 CEST
Organizer: ESI Africa
Description: An estimated 50% of African utilities are in a position to only cover basic operating costs, making it a challenge to operate efficiently and maintain existing assets let alone make the investments necessary to expand access.
Senior Energy Specialist, Chris Trimble, will be unpacking the status of financial viability in sub-Saharan Africa and examples from across the continent of how costs can be reduced and smart revenues increased to close the financial gaps we see today.
Date & Time: Tuesday 10 October 2017 - 17:00 CEST
Organizer: Solarplaza
Description: As a prelude to Making Solar Bankable: Evolving Business Models in Emerging Markets (15-16 February, 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), we hosted a complimentary webinar on the dynamics of emerging markets.
Two of the industry’s leading experts, Jeremy Leggett, founder of Solarcentury, and Manuel Cabrerizo, managing director at Voltiq, explored the evolving landscape of solar PV in emerging markets and dive into the possibilities for financial structuring of PV projects.
Date & Time: Thursday 5 October 2017 - 16:00 CEST
Organizer: Solarplaza
Description: As a prelude to our conference Unlocking Solar Capital Africa (25-26 October, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire), the webinar focused on one of the key topics: how to get commercial capital investments for solar PV projects in Africa.
Charles Ayenu from Ceadir West Africa shared his experience on working with local, West African banks in the financing of clean energy, and Nedbank CIB's Jan Malan shed light on solar PV projects from the perspective of Nedbank.
Date & Time: Thursday, 31 August 2017 - 14:30 CEST
Organizer: ESI Africa
Description: By registering for this webinar, you will be able to engage with three highly knowledgeable and experienced South African speakers who are each equipped with a diverse and unique frame of reference and opinion of the South African power space.
Our speakers will be having an open discussion around nuclear, wind energy and clean coal focusing on cost, transparency, local industry impact and how each can best meet the energy demands of the country.
Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 August, 2017
Organizer: USTDA
Description: The webinar will provide information on new project opportunities, as well as highlight programs and incentives that Power Africa, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the African Development Bank, World Bank, United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS), and others are offering in West Africa to attract private sector investment in minigrid development and to increase energy access.
USTDA, along with Power Africa, and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) will be hosting this webinar.
Date & Time: Tuesday 11 July 2017 - 16:00 CEST
Organizer: Solarplaza
Description: This webinar, organized by Solarplaza with support from the AFDB and Greenwish Partners, took place Tuesday 11 July in preparation of the second annual edition of Unlocking Solar Capital Africa (Abidjan, 25-26 October 2017).
Date & Time: Wednesday 17 May 2017 - 16:00 CEST
Organizer: Solarplaza
Description: With falling prices, new government initiatives and new business models, the opportunities for solar seem endless. However, intermittency issues and curtailment risk threaten this growth of solar energy in emerging markets and need to be addressed.
In this webinar Ana Verana Lima (Bloomberg New Energy Finance), Frederik van Pallandt (FMO) and Javier Relanchio (Mott MacDonald) will shed their light on the evolving landscape of solar energy in emerging markets. Especially, they will address the issues described above, and explain what the role of technological developments including energy storage can be to solve this problem.
Date & Time: Wednesday 15 March 2017 - 16:00 CEST
Organizer: Solarplaza
Description: In preparation for our upcoming Solar Future Nigeria conference, we hosted this webinar, focused on currency risks surrounding Nigerian Solar and RE projects projects.
Topics that will be discussed: A view on Nigerian macro-economics, Naira volatility and USD liquidity; Currency and convertibility risk in the Nigerian energy sector; Solutions and sources.
Date & Time: Monday 6 February 2017 - 17:00 CEST
Organizer: Solarplaza
Description: The Nigerian energy sector has undergone some drastic reforms in recent years, and the government is more and more actively facilitating the use of solar energy (and other forms of renewables) to meet the huge demand for energy.
2017 is expected to be a very significant year for Nigeria’s Solar Power Market. In the on-grid sector, there have been several PPAs signed with the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trader (NBET) that should commence construction, and preparations will be underway for a second auction round. In the decentralized / off-grid sector, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is expected to have finalized a regulatory document for minigrids. Meanwhile, the nascent Solar Home Systems market has seen steady growth, with several players eyeing to move into the space.
In this webinar, as a prologue to our event, our panel of experts explored Nigeria’s solar market and frame the current status of the on-grid and off-grid segments.
Date & Time: Wednesday 14 December 2016 - 16:30 CEST
Organizer: Solarplaza
Description: Some experts say that the Blockchain could be as disruptive as the internet itself upon its introduction, and that we can’t yet oversee what the impact and opportunities will be.
The Blockchain is about ‘trust’, ’public ledgers’, ‘cutting out middlemen’, ‘bitcoins’, ‘a distributed network supporting distributed renewable energy’, ‘peer to peer energy sales’ and more. Our webinar will give you an excellent opportunity to learn from leading players and stakeholders involved in the first Blockchain solar projects. They will share their personal experiences, opinions on the latest developments and their visions for the future.
Date & Time: Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Organizer: Clean Energy Solutions Center
Description: The Clean Energy Solutions Center, in partnership with the United Nations Foundation's Energy Access Practitioner Network, hosted this webinar featuring the work of some of the most impactful development partners contributing to the scale up of energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. The webinar kicked off the UN Foundation's new country-focused webinar series that will delve into the state of energy access across different parts of the world, starting with countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
The speakers in this session showcased their respective organizations' experience in supporting the region’s off-grid energy sectors, discussing the crucial role of enterprises and the ecosystem around them.
Date & Time: Thursday 20 October 2016 - 17:00 CEST
Organizer: Solarplaza
Description: Solarplaza is proud to announce the latest in the USC: Africa webinar series: "Market Development Trends in the African solar PV Off-Grid Sector", where we provide an overview of the developments and trends in the off-grid and distributed energy sector.
Electrifying rural Africa via traditional interconnection to the main electricity grid is a costly affair, and often not viable for remote communities. Over the past years, off-grid alternatives have emerged in the form of minigrids and solar home systems , which are now truly getting traction. The pay-as-you-go model for financing solar home systems has attracted investor attention due to its huge potential in making access to energy more affordable, and minigrids are seen by many DFI's as the upcoming solution to electrify remote villages, communities and businesses.
Nairobi, KENYA