IRENA-ECREEE Workshop: Promotion of Solar PV Financing in the ECOWAS Region

The workshop aimed to raise awareness of solar energy financing opportunities, the associated risks and best practices, with a view to increasing the confidence of financial institutions to back solar energy projects in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Participants were drawn from regional commercial banks, development banks and microfinance institutions. Several entrepreneurs who had maintained engagement with IRENA since entrepreneurship training in 2013 attended the workshop as an opportunity to connect with financial institutions. Energy and banking experts from Mauritius, India and South Africa, meanwhile, shared their experience with solar energy financing. IRENA organized the workshop together with the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE).