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- Project 3 February 2021 Governing solar electronic waste recycling in Kenya This project can now be found here The diffusion of small-scale, off-grid solar devices, such as solar lanterns and solar home systems, have increased rapidly and significantly across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The solar electronic waste being generated and disposed of is increasing at a similar pace, which has raised concerns about the overall sustainability of the off-grid solar sector. The solar devices contain various hazardous materials, such as lead and cadmium, the disposal of…
- News 27 January 2021 Policy brief - Action needed to level the playing field for domestic solar PV companies Kenya has long been a frontrunner in the diffusion and uptake of solar PV technologies. This has created a mature and vibrant market, with large investments coming into the sector, worth USD 467 million in 2018. This growth in the solar PV market presents opportunities for the Kenyan economy going beyond clean energy and access to electricity in rural areas to include benefits like industrial development, private-sector development and job creation. The market is largely driven by international…
- Event 24 November 2020 Finance workshop Despite the large deployments of capital into the clean energy sector in Kenya, to date only a few local commercial banks in Kenya are involved in financing domestic solar PV companies. This workshop brings together representatives from local commercial banks, Kenyan solar PV companies as well as sector experts to advance the discussion of issues that hinder local companies in obtaining loans from commercial banks and to co-create new ideas on how domestic financing can be expanded and cater to…
- Event 16 September 2020 Workshop on Strengthening Support for Domestic Firms in the Solar PV Industry in Kenya Domestic Energy SMEs face several challenges that hinders them from upscaling and grow their businesses. This workshop brings together representatives from solar PV firms, government as well as the energy regulator and the renewable energy association to discuss the challenges of domestic firms and to formulate potential solutions to remove bottlenecks and lower specific barriers for Kenyan solar PV SMEs. Download concept note Download workshop report …
- Event 9 June 2020 Webinar: A Nordic carbon-neutral energy system enabled by flexibility and storage Carbon-neutral electricity is the main challenge since it will be the primary future energy carrier for heating, transportation and other energy needs. Soon fossil fuel-based power plants will be substituted by renewables such as wind and solar. Thus, new storage solutions - activated by the smart grids and enabled by linkages with the heat or mobility sectors - will become central flexibility assets. However, their direct participation in balancing competes with other, centralised flexibility…
- Event 7 May 2020 Webinar on clean captive solar PV installations for commercial and industrial (C&I) market in Kenya UNEP-DTU webinar on clean captive PV market in Kenya. May 20, 2-3:15 PM CEST. The webinar is based on a report titled Clean captive power: Understanding the uptake and growth of commercial and industrial (C&I) solar PV in Kenya, published by UNEP DTU Partnership. Link to webinar Download slides Kenya has witnessed a rapid increase in the captive solar PV segment over a short timeframe, mainly since 2014. The total capacity for captive PV installations currently in Kenya is 40…
- News 21 February 2020 Clean cooking technology for refugees developed with DTU Skylab and UNHCR A new innovative clean cooking technology, creating heat from a salt-based thermochemical battery, charged by solar power, has been developed at DTU, and UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre is part of making sure it gets to those in greatest need. In 2019, ServedOnSalt approached UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre for inputs to their business idea of storing solar-generated heat in salt-based sustainable stoves. In collaboration, ServedOnSalt and UNEP DTU Partnership won a £26,000 grant from the UK…
- News 26 November 2019 Annual 7% decrease in emissions needed for next decade Global greenhouse gas emissions should fall over 7 per cent each year from 2020 to 2030 to get on track to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C and minimize climate disruption to lives, the planet and economies, the new Emissions Gap Report says today. The Emissions Gap Report, launched today, shows that collective ambition must increase more than fivefold over current levels to deliver the cuts, needed to hit the most-ambitious temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. Each year, the UN Environment…