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This webinar provides an overview of smart microgrids and related technologies as well as the business models and the enabling policy environment for smarter, more efficient, and sustainable energy systems in Smart Energy Solutions for Africa (SESA’s) partner countries. The webinar will host speakers (entrepreneurs, industry players, representatives from local bodies, etc.) from outside the SESA project consortium to discuss businesses and policies in the African context.
A solar panel on a traditional thatched house
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The webinar is part of the sixth module of the SESA capacity building programme, a self-paced e-learning programme that focuses on smart microgrid systems. The courses are available on the NUA campus platform.
The energy poverty gap in sub-Saharan Africa affects approximately 597 million people, mainly rural households that are too remote from the main grid and are too costly to electrify by extending the main grid, thus posing a major challenge to the socio-economic development of these communities. With growing electricity demand, smart microgrids hold great promise as an effective off-grid solution to close the energy poverty gap and supplement existing electrification programs in rural communities by harnessing locally available energy resources to satisfy their energy demands efficiently.
| Harnessing the potential of Smart Microgrid Systems in African countries | ||
| Time (EAT) | Activity | Moderators |
| 15:00 – 15:10
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Welcome and Introduction to the Session |
Silvia Assalini, Sustainable Energy System Expert, ICLEI Europe |
| 15:10 – 15:30
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| 15:30 – 15:50
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Discussion I – Business
Panelists:
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Anderson Kehbila, Programme Leader, SEI |
| 15:50 – 16:10
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Discussion II – Policy
Panelists:
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Anderson Kehbila, Programme Leader, SEI
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16:10 – 16:35
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Discussion III – Business
Panelists:
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Anderson Kehbila, Programme Leader, SEI
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| 16:35 – 16:40
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Closing of the webinar |
Silvia Assalini, Sustainable Energy System Expert, ICLEI Europe |
GDPR Compliance: By attending this webinar, I agree to allow the organizers of the SESA webinar, taking place on 14th March 2024 from 12:00 – 13:30 GMT (15:00 – 16:30 EAT / 13:00 – 14:30 CET), to publish and distribute the webinar recording in all forms and all media. This includes but is not limited to digital distribution on the SESA project website and its social media channels, as well as those of its partners. The consent is given without a temporal or spatial limit and can only be withdrawn on solid ground.
Project / The projects aims to provide energy access technologies and business models that are easily replicable and generate local opportunities for economic development
Past event / The workshop brings together stakeholders involved in the energy, climate, poverty and inequality reduction sectors to discuss research findings and co-create.
Past event / SEI's Daniel Duma, Carly Evaeus, Björn Nykvist, Fiona Lambe and Janet Vähämäki contributed to this dialogue organized in collaboration with Sida and Norad.
Past event / SEI hosted a webinar on the role of risk mitigation instruments when attracting private finance to renewable energy projects in Southern Africa.
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