Following a successful IRENA Innovation Week 2018 in Bonn, Germany that brought together a diverse group to explore and share insights into the many common challenges and opportunities of innovation solutions for renewable power integration, together with the great interest from many regional players, a series of regional Innovation Days will be organized across the globe.

Taking place during the 2019 Scenarios Forum, the session titled “Renewable-based Electrification: How can we Improve Scenarios for Clean Energy Transition?” addressed how long-term energy scenarios can better account for the potentially transformational changes related to renewables-based electrification.

The GGA, IRENA, the IGA and World Bank co-organised a series of technical sessions with the Geological Survey of Ethiopia, and other local stakeholders in the geothermal sector in Ethiopia.

An action-focused gathering of around 250 leading companies, innovators and policy makers from across IRENA’s diverse global membership, convened to explore how innovations in enabling technologies, business models, system operations and sector coupling can accelerate the renewable power transition.

An IRENA delegation visited Finland to discuss potential cooperation with Business Finland, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.