RES4Africa holds a business-to-government (B2G) workshop focused on the long-term strategies for integrating renewable energy into the national electric system, attracting investments and exploiting the socio-economic benefits of renewables in Ethiopia. During the event, the results of the study “Integration of variable renewable energy into the national electric system”, carried …

RES4Africa leads an executive training focused on an international benchmark for auction programs and project finance in the renewable energy sector. Thanks to the support and cooperation of RES4Africa’s network, the executive training sheds light on the crucial steps for the preparation of international tenders, including the document procedures and …

RES4Med&Africa organised a conference on the role of the innovation in the African continent and how innovation can boost the RE sector providing new solutions, business-wise and technological-wise, …

The Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE), in partnership with the African Development Bank and GET.invest (formely RECP) announces that the 5th ARE Energy Access Investment Forum will take place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on 13-14 March 2019.

The Forum, supported by Club-ER, ECREEE and UNIDO, convenes public, private …

ARE and GOGLA, supported by the Zambia’s Rural Electrification Authority, the RECP and the European Union funded IAEREP project, invite you to attend the Zambia Off-Grid Investor Forum

The Forum, hosted by the two leading global off-grid industry associations, convenes developers, financiers, regulators and international development partners to build partnerships …

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation hosted a high-level seminar organized by RES4MED&Africa on the role of renewable energy in emerging economies.

Seminar

The role of renewable energies: opportunities for global growth and investments in emerging economies

11 May 2018

Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International …

RES4Med&Africa, in collaboration with its members led by PwC, released the new white paper “A New Instrument to Foster Large-Scale Renewable Energy Development and Private Investment in Africa”. In this white paper RES4Med&Africa analysed RE financing mechanisms’ best practices and weaknesses, thus stressing the need for a new …

“Unlocking Value from Sustainable Renewable Energy”, RES4Med&Africa’s first flagship publication, was presented during the 2018 Annual Conference, held in Rome on 22^nd June.

This publication, the first of a series of annual features that will focus on specific key priorities and themes about Africa’s sustainable energy …

Open Africa, RES4Africa’s latest project consisting of a photographic book and a web documentary, was presented at Minerva Roof Garden in Rome on 20th June. Developed by RES4Africa with the support of Enel Foundation and in collaboration with Akronos, Open Africa was produced to visually illustrate how …

Increasing the speed of global renewable energy adoption by at least a factor of six – critical to meeting energy-related emission reduction needs of the Paris Climate Agreement – can limit global temperature rise to two degrees, according to the latest edition of the International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) long-term …

RES4MED&Africa released a white paper on innovation titled “Aggregation platforms for distributed energy resources: enabling the development of decentralized renewable energies in Africa” which aims to assess the potential of the aggregation platforms for customers and utilities in interconnected rural and peri-urban areas in Africa; as well as analyst the …

Nairobi, January 24^th, 2017 – The development of African start-ups and its entrepreneurial innovation scene plays a key role in driving the region’s sustainable energy transition. To that end, Enel X, Enel’s new advanced energy services division, in partnership with Seedstars World, awarded a particularly innovative start-up with …

RES4Med&Africa’s Executive Committee, which met on 4 March, approved the joining of Prysmian Group as Supporter Member.

Prysmian Group is at the forefront of growth and innovation in the supply of cables to the energy and telecom sectors, ultimately delivering sustainable growth and profit.

“We warmly welcome Prysmian Group as …

It took us a few days to write about the Ethiopian ET302 flight accident, because we were fully immerged in our African events but mostly because we needed some time to elaborate what had happened.

This tragedy affects us very closely: we take the ET302 flight many times a year, …

RES4Med&Africa, in collaboration with its members led by PwC, released the new white paper “A New Instrument to Foster Large-Scale Renewable Energy Development and Private Investment in Africa”. In this white paper RES4Med&Africa analysed RE financing mechanisms’ best practices and weaknesses, thus stressing the need for a new …

Enel Foundation‘s 2019 Open Africa Power edition is launched today in Ethiopia. Open Africa Power is an education program dedicated to high profile African graduates interested in developing a holistic know-how on electricity to work in private or public sector towards the sustainable electrification of Africa.

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The fifth training session of the Micro-Grid Academy, the RES4Africa project developed in collaboration with Kenya Power Lighting Company (KPLC), AVSI Foundation, Strathmore University and the St. Kizito VTI technical training center and with the support of Enel Foundation, begins today in Nairobi, Kenya.

The objective of the course, …

Micro-Grid Academy (MGA) students now have an e-learning platform to use thanks to the agreement between RES4Med&Africa and LEDsafari.

The Micro-Grid Academy is a regional capacity building platform that provides theoretical and practical training on access to energy and decentralized renewable energy solutions to young East-African and international technicians, …