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February 2, 2017

SEforAll Africa annual workshop, Abidjan, 29-30 March 2017

The SEforAll Africa hub will host the 4th annual workshop on advancing SE4All country actions.  This year, a central theme will be Green Mini-Grids with an update of the progress of the African Development Bank’s GMG Market Development Programme, and plans for phase 2. On the day after the workshop, Friday 31 March, the SEforAll […]

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February 2, 2017

ARE Energy Access Investment Forum ¦ Lisbon ¦ 22-23 March 2017

The Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE), with support from Energias de Portugal (EDP) and the African-EU Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme (RECP), will be hosting this Forum in Portugal. The aim of the event is to discuss market conditions, key policy initiatives, business opportunities and showcase financial and technical instruments supporting rural electrification projects in developing and emerging markets. […]

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February 2, 2017

9th Annual Africa Energy Indaba, South Africa, 21-22 February 2017

The Africa Energy Indaba is the official World Energy Council event for Africa and has as its strategic partners, the NEPAD Agency representing Africa and the Southern African National Energy Association representing South Africa. The event has a number of official side events including: 2nd Africa Gas Forum 3rd Women in Energy Conference 4th IPP […]

Events
February 2, 2017

Sustainable Energy for All Forum (New York, 3-5 April 2017)

The Sustainable Energy for All Forum is the landmark gathering celebrating the global sustainable energy movement. Over 1,000 high-level representatives from government, business, civil society and international organizations will gather in New York City for the 3rd Sustainable Energy for All Forum – its theme “Going Further, Faster – Together.” The Forum will be a […]

Events
February 2, 2017

New open-source GIS-based Mapping Tool for Off-Grid Applications

IFC–working closely with the World Bank–has recently launched an online tool to help develop off-grid energy projects in Sub Saharan Africa: the ‘Off-Grid Market Opportunity Tool’, which can be found at http://offgrid.energydata.info/. The database platform behind the tool’s interface (https://energydata.info/) builds on open geospatial data to provide a high level view of where markets for off-grid electrification […]

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