Offshore Renewables for a Global Blue Economy
IRENA, together with the Governments’ of Denmark, Colombia and Costa Rica organised this side event to to exchange lesson learnt, good practices and innovative solutions.
IRENA, together with the Governments’ of Denmark, Colombia and Costa Rica organised this side event to to exchange lesson learnt, good practices and innovative solutions.
The programme aims to build and enhance capacity for long-term energy planning in seven CAPP countries able to participate: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, and Rwanda.
Upon the successful conclusion of the pilot examinations for the certification of off-grid solar PV technicians in Senegal and Ghana, a workshop with all of the main stakeholders is planned to review the results of the piloting, the progress so far, and to discuss the way forward.
IRENA, in collaboration with EACREEE, and SACREEE, has organised a two day capacity building workshop to share IRENA’s framework and insights regarding renewable energy auctions, and considerations, best practices, lessons learnt and specific case studies, with a focus on the Sub-Saharan Africa context.
The joint webinar by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), TransnetBW GmbH and the Costa Rican Electricity Institute, aimed at discussing innovative solutions for operating power systems with increasing shares of variable renewable electricity.
The workshop was attended by SAPP member country representatives from power utilities, ministries responsible for energy, regulatory authorities and research institutes as well as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat, SAPP Secretariat, Regional Electricity Regulators Association of southern Africa (RERA), as well the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of South Africa.
This workshop gathered experts and public and private stakeholders from the ocean energy field to discuss the latest progress and identify the most relevant opportunities for scaling-up ocean energy technologies deployment with a special emphasis on Small Island Developing States.
This joint webinar by IRENA and ACER discussed the role of innovation in the interconnected market-based European power system, with focus on the 5 relevant briefs from IRENA’s Innovation Landscape Report, to integrate very high shares of solar PV and wind resources.
The third IRENA Innovation Week – a virtual gathering of leading policy makers, innovators, developers and investors from across IRENA’s diverse global membership – convened to explore how systemic innovative solutions can support the use of renewables in the energy-end-use sectors of buildings, transport & industry.
This virtual event aimed to encourage all governments of the region towards more ambitious climate action driven by energy transition.
The Clean Energy Ministerial and Mission Innovation organizations virtual meetings brought together global leaders, ministers and experts to discuss renewable energy future.
As part of its engagement in Latin America IRENA undertook the Renewables Readiness Assessment (RRA) Panama. A high-level event took place in Panama City for the launch of the report, which included government officials from various institutions, and representatives from the private sector, industry and academia.
IRENA conducted a scoping mission to Sierra Leone, to discuss with key stakeholders, assess national energy planning gaps and needs, and define the Programme timeline.
IRENA co-organised two events at European Utility Week 2018, covering 'Managing A High Renewable System' and 'Electric Vehicles and Renewable Energy Powering the Transport Sector'.
IRENA organised the 1st International Conference on Renewable Energy for Healthcare in Singapore on 2 November 2018 immediately after the 4th International Off-Grid Renewable Energy Conference and Exhibition (IOREC).
This workshop brought together policy makers and leading energy system modelers from China and abroad to share their experience in using models and scenario analysis to address some of the key questions in the electric power sector.
A meeting to support the Entrepreneurship Support Facility by collect feedback from the region with respect to the scope of its activities and expected outcomes targeted to be achieved in the next two years.
A consultative meeting with stakeholders of the EAPP and SAPP regions took stock of the progress made on ACEC and agreements on future areas of focus.
The joint webinar by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA) in Malaysia discusses the transition from electricity consumers to prosumers, focusing on peer to peer electricity trading model, supported by digital technologies such as blockchain
IOREC, organised by IRENA, is the global platform for sharing experience and best practices on design and implementation of enabling policies, tailored financing schemes, innovative business models and technology applications for stand-alone and mini-grid systems. IOREC 2018 presented a key opportunity to discuss the measures necessary to accelerate off-grid systems deployment, and highlight their role in meeting several Sustainable Development Goals.