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 …

The International Forum on Solar Technologies for Small-Scale Agriculture and Water Management will present the opportunities and challenges of the application of solar technologies in small-scale agriculture and water management. The tools developed by FAO and its partners to enhance the use of solar technologies for small-scale agriculture will also …

RES4Africa in partnership with the Italian Ministry of Environment and the Ethiopian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change organized a 4-day training course in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on “Policy Responses to Climate Change: Sustainable Development and Energy Transition” to support Ethiopia in implementing and monitoring INDCs.

The training was …

Three days of panel discussions and interactive events open to the public, addressing trends and entrepreneurial opportunities in the African continent with a focus on: energy, climate change, entrepreneurship, development, demography and migration.

This will be an unique opportunity to interact with high-level representatives from both the private and public …

RES4MED&Africa attends the annual World Future Energy Summit (WFES). It is the foremost platform dedicated to the innovation and digitalisation trends that are key to transformation in the global energy mix. Located in Abu Dhabi, WFES is a business-first exhibition for project developers, distributors, innovators, investors and purchasers from across …

“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 …

The RES4Africa Micro-Grid Academy (MGA) completed its official opening ceremony on Monday afternoon, 22 January 2018 at KPLC IESR – Institute of Energy Studies & Research, Ruaraka, Nairobi. The event included a site visit gathering 40 international stakeholders to the future MGA venue and the certification ceremony of the first …

RES4Africa is leading the “Workshop on non-dispatchable renewable energies integration into the grid” in Lusaka, Zambia, today September 5^th and tomorrow 6^th. The workshop, developed in partnership with ZESCO, Zambia’s electricity utility company, and with the support of RES4Africa members CESI, Enel Green Power and Terna…

Following previous activities in Kenya, such as the Grid Integration Study and the RES-Expo 2018, RES4Africa lead an Executive Seminar requested by the Ministry of Energy of Kenya.

The Ministry of Energy announced that Kenya is in the process of moving from the Feed-in-Tariff Framework to the Energy Auction …

The Governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia have agreed to strengthen their existing power co-operation by among others, constructing the Kolwezi-Solwezi interconnector (an approximately 190km long 330/400 kV line from the town of Kolwezi in DRC to the district of Solwezi in Zambia). For this a …

Elettrici Senza Frontiere (ESFI) has announced it will provide technical support to Medici con l’Africa – CUAMM in a hospital in Chiulo, Angola. Inspections are being carried out and the project will be finished by the end of the summer.

Elettrici Senza Frontiereis a non-profit organization, member of the …

Leaders from government, business, civil society and international organizations gathered 2-3 May 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal for the 2018 Sustainable Energy for All Forum.

The 2018 Forum, “Leaving No One Behind”, took place at a pivotal juncture for accelerating progress on global sustainable energy goals — under Sustainable Development Goal …

The Micro-Grid Academy (MGA) is a regional capacity building platform based in Nairobi, Kenya, that provides theoretical and practical training on energy access and decentralised renewable energy solutions to young East-African and international technicians, entrepreneurs and engineers.The project is a joint initiative between RES4Africa, Kenya Power Lighting Company (KPLC), AVSI …