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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Date & Time: Tuesday 20 September 2016 - 17:00 CEST

Organizer: Solarplaza

Description: As a preparation for the event Unlocking Solar Capital Africa (1-2 November 2016, Nairobi), Solarplaza has organized this complimentary webinar on currency risks for RE projects in the African market.

Investing in the African solar energy market brings large commercial opportunities but also remains challenging on many counts. Currency risk is a major topic of concern for all stakeholders, from investor to utility to developers alike. These days, a multitude of tools are available to counter these currency related risks. In the webinar we will be joined by TCX, Persistent Energy Capital, GuarantCo and MFX, going in-depth on what this risk entails and how to alleviate it.

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Date & Time: Tuesday 14 June 2016 - 17:00 CEST

Organizer: Solarplaza

Description: In preparation of the Unlocking Solar capital: Africa event, we are pleased to invite you to watch the full recordings of our recent webinar.

The webinar Framing the Solar Bankability Issue in Africa concerns the following topics: Keys to obtaining low cost capital; Overview of risks and strategies for overcome them; Highlighting key markets and prospects for future growth.

Just recently the first Scaling Solar auction yielded record-breaking prices for solar power to date in Africa: 6.02 cents/kWh and 7.84 cents/kWh - for two 50MW solar PV plants to be built in Zambia. To assess the impact of this result for the region we have asked two leading industry experts to provide their analysis.

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