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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …