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Date & Time: 14 April 2021 at 2 pm SAST
Organizer: EQ
Description: EQ Webinar on South Africa Solar Market Outlook, Opportunities & Challenges on Wednesday April 14th.
Past Webinars
Date: 6 April 2021
Organizers: UK COP26 Presidency, IRENA and Africa Union Commission
Description: This virtual event will have a regional focus on Africa, will aim at:
- encouraging more ambitious climate action by all governments in Africa, including the submission of updated NDCs and long-term climate/energy strategies in support of the goals set out in the Paris Agreement;
- sharing regional experience on the domestic energy systems transformation required to achieve the GHG reduction targets set by NDCs of African countries;
- deepening the understanding on the opportunities offered by the energy sector in the decarbonization efforts; and
- broadening the knowledge and understanding of the role of NDCs in achieving the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, including, the opportunities to maximize the socioeconomic benefits of the energy transition.
Date: 8 April 2021
Organizers: ATA Insights
Description: Africa is in need of increased accessibility to high-quality, sustainable, and low-cost electricity. Renewables are growing at a fast pace to cover energy needs, meaning much more variable renewable capacity at record low cost will enter the grid over the next few years.
Nearly 40 out of 50 African countries have deployed – or plan to install – renewable energy projects. And 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.
In this webinar will analyze how the all-time low cost of renewables is creating an attractive environment for investment in Africa.
- Get key take-aways across the main markets in Africa; update on tenders, project developments and the regulatory framework;
- Hear about the major institutions that are prepared to back renewable energy projects in the African market and what they look for when deciding whether to finance a project;
- Explore first-hand case studies on how to successfully finance and develop large-scale projects.
Date & Time: 30 March 2021 at 10 am CET
Organizer: ATA Insights
Description: Solar PV is now the cheapest way to generate electricity in sun-drenched areas. However, as a Variable Renewable (VRE), penetration is limited. Hybrid PV – CSP approaches are uniting two complementary technologies to deliver solar power whenever it is required.
In this webinar they will analyze Noor Midelt’s first-of-a-kind hybrid solar project that will deliver dispatchable solar at 7 cents per kWh.
- How does CSP stack up against PV with batteries, or natural gas? Understand how and why CSP plants can be designed and optimized as peakers, load followers or flexible base-load plants.
- Hear directly from the source about how combining PV-CSP enhances flexibility and reliability, enabling the supply of clean power 24/7
- Explore how different markets can incorporate PV-CSP to their energy strategies to benefit from innovative technologies, project structuring and climate financing.
Date: 6 April 2021
Organizers: African Development Bank and Global Center on Adaptation
Description: The African Development Bank and the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) will bring together African heads of state and government for a virtual Leaders’ Dialogue on the Africa Covid-Climate Emergency on Tuesday 6 April 2021.
The African Development Bank and GCA are combining their expertise, resources and networks to develop and implement a bold new Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program, advancing a three-pronged approach to address Covid-19, climate change, and the continent’s emerging economic challenges. The program will support the implementation of the vision of the Africa Adaptation Initiative. Its objective is to achieve balanced regional coverage in its work through regional and continental programs and projects.
Date: 30 March 2021
Organizer: Brazil Africa Institute
Description: The seminar will focus on the three pillars of sustainable development: environmental, economic and social. The goal is to promote in-depth discussions on the main trends in the energy sector, sustainable economic development and climate change, in response to the challenges brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The event will promote a moment of excellence for sharing projects and ideas, bringing together names that are references in the Brazilian, African and international contexts. It will be possible to present solutions, highlight information based on scientific data, encourage smart investments and urgent inclusive policies in the energy sector.
The seminar is supported by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), and the BrazAfric Enterprises.
The seminar will be 100% online and live streamed with simultaneous translations to English and Portuguese.
Date & Time: 29 March 2021 at 10 am CET
Organizer: RES4Africa Foundation
Description: In 2016, Egypt adopted the 2035 Integrated Sustainable Energy Strategy, striving for a diversification of the electricity mix, with an increasingly growing share of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency along with gradual liberalization of the electricity market. The Strategy set a target of 20% share of RES in the electricity generation by 2022 and 42% by 2035. By the end of 2019, Egypt had 5,972 MW or 10.8% of renewable energy in its total installed power capacity.
In order to support this vision, in 2014 Egypt adopted the Certificate of Origin act as proof that the certificate holder (end consumer) has consumed the amount of electricity mentioned in the certificate from the origin (resource) defined in the certificate.
RES4Africa Foundation, together with the EU funded project “Support the technical and financial sustainability of the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors in Egypt”, is organising a virtual event on Wednesday 29th March 2021, in order to introduce the Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) to public and private stakeholders in Egypt and abroad, and to stimulate demand for the REC among industry and society in Egypt.
Date & Time: 25 March 2021 at 1 pm GMT
Organizer: ESI Africa
Description: Utilities have made major investments in improving the outage response process by expanding beyond traditional OMS functions to a fully integrated ADMS, adding mobility and damage assessment.
What if there was a way to accurately predict the impact of severe weather events on customers and network assets? By making data-driven decisions in advance of severe weather events, utilities can improve the mobilisation of resources to the affected areas.
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.
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.
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:
- Promoters with interest in the development of renewable IPP projects in Mozambique and;
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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