RES4Africa is organizing a conference at EXCO2019, the International Cooperation Expo. The session, titled “The Role of Renewable Energy: Business Empowering”, will take place on Thursday 16 May at Hortensia Room, Pavilion 10 (Fiera di Roma) from 9:30 to 12:00.

During the conference we will present our flagship …

RES4Africa was among the stakeholders of the FSR Energy Transition Global Forum, which took place at the Florence School of Regulation in Fiesole on 26-28 March.

The four-days event aimed at fostering practice-oriented solutions on key aspects of the world energy transition, providing a platform for multi-stakeholder engagement to …

RES4Med&Africa took part of the Annual Meeting of the International Energy Agency (IEA)‘s Renewable Industry Advisory Board (RIAB), which took place in Paris on 2 April 2019. Roberto Vigotti, RES4Med&Africa Secretary General and RIAB Coordinator, coordinated the sessions; the morning was opened by Fatih Birol, IEA …

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, …

Nature is based on cycles. If we go back to our childhood schoolbooks and look up the water cycle, we will discover (or rediscover) that the water cycle is driven by the sun’s energy, and that rainfalls make plants sprout and quench animals’ thirst. It’s a perfect cycle that has …

To support our business-to-government workshop in Ethiopia we released our new “Integration of variable renewable energy into the national electric system of Ethiopia” which we carried out carried out with Enel Foundation in cooperation with Ethiopian Electric Power and with the technical expertise of CESI.

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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 hosted two discussion panels under the title of “The Role of Renewable Energy: Business Empowering” at EXCO2019, the expo dedicated to innovative solutions provided development cooperation actors. The event was attended by 60 participants and saw the contribution of around 20 speakers.

The event was opened by Roberto Vigotti…

The sixth session of our Micro-Grid Academy, titled “East African Regional Training Course on Mini-Grids: From Design to Integration of Productive Uses
through the Water-Energy-Food Nexus”, kicked off today in Nairobi, for the first time at Strathmore University.

This session will provide a general overview of the role of …

On 24th and 25th April RES4Africa and our Micro-Grid Academy were presented at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris at the annual International Conference of Renewable Energy – ICREN 2019, together with partner universities of the Mini-Grid Business Model Study. Read more…

Two new sessions of the Micro-Grid Academy are coming up. The first one will be held on 6-11 May in Nairobi, Kenya. A second on Tour session will follow, taking place  on 17-22 June in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in parallel with the first RES4Med&Africa Annual Conference in Africa. The theme …

Roberto Vigotti, RES4Med&Africa Secretary General and RIAB Coordinator, coordinated the Annual Meeting of the International Energy Agency (IEA)‘s Renewable Industry Advisory Board (RIAB).
This Annual Meeting focused in particular on the innovation, policies and approaches that are needed to accelerate the deployment of sustainable bioenergy. Despite often being …