The meeting aimed to bring together IRENA members and other key stakeholders to discuss the opportunities and challenges in developing cross-border interconnections and regional markets based on renewables, in support of their transition to clean energy aligned with the climate and sustainable development objectives.
Innovation Week 2025 will focus on two key streams: Innovation in Infrastructure for Tripling Renewables and Renewable-Based Solutions for Sustainable Development.
Supported by IRENA through the SIDS Lighthouses Initiative, Papua New Guinea’s National Energy Authority is convening an in-person workshop to present a draft Energy Transition Assessment, refine priority actions, and build stakeholder consensus to drive a resilient, inclusive renewable-energy transition.
Through training activities on energy modelling and the process of developing and updating national energy scenarios as direct inputs into national energy master plans, IRENA and its expert partners guide country teams with customised technical support, on-demand advisory services and draft output reviews.
The 1st Energy Planning Summit in Rio de Janeiro will launch the Global Coalition for Energy Planning, bringing financing and planning leaders together to advance dialogue and investment-ready, clean energy roadmaps to advance the energy transition in emerging and developing economies.
Convening some 200 modellers, energy scholars, researchers and policy makers, this was the first IEW to be held in the Middle East. In doing so, the IEW community seeks to strengthen its engagement in the MENA region and gain first-hand experience with the UAE’s economic and renewable energy industry developments.
The National Energy Authority and the International Energy Renewable Energy Agency through the SIDS Lighthouses Initiative will host the National Expert Workshop to discuss the issues constraining the energy transition efforts with renewable energy deployment and identify opportunities to address these issues and put forward action plans for implementation and addressing cross cutting issues such as capacity and investment.
The session aimed at providing policymakers and urban energy planners with an understanding of the policy options, technical solutions, and examples that can support the development of the renewable energy sector at a city-level.
The 14th Clean Energy Ministerial and 8th Mission Innovation meeting (CEM14/MI-8) featured a public facing technology showcase demonstrating cutting edge advances in clean energy transition.
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has embarked on producing a Renewable Readiness Assessment, coupled with the IRENA Flexibility analyses. This two-day multi-stakeholder meeting gathered national stakeholders representing the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR), National Electric Power Company (NEPCO), development partners, IFI’s, private sector, non-governmental organizations, universities, and research institutions.
IRENA attended Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) and organised a roundtable on the Global Energy Transformation.
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.