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- 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…
- News 10 December 2020 Perspectives: ESCOs in the context of Nationally Determined Contributions UNEP DTU Partnership is proud to present the newest edition to its Perspectives series. In this publication, seasoned experts present 10 articles on Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) and energy efficiency and its mainstreaming in Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement. An untapped potential Energy efficiency is central to efforts to make the transition to clean energy and limit the average global temperature increase. It is a cost-effective means of reducing 40% of the…
- News 26 November 2020 First LEDs arrive in historic bundling investment This month, LED street lights started to arrive in nine municipalities in Argentina, a result of a new bundling of investments in energy efficiency at local level throughout the country. The nine municipalities are part of the Argentinean Network of Municipalities Against Climate Change (RAMCC), which entered into a historical agreement to purchase LED luminaires to replace conventional street lighting bulbs through a trust fund in early 2020. The establishment of the trust fund and bundling of…
- 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…
- News 20 November 2020 Virtual thesis fair was a big success This week students from DTU joined UNEP DTU Partnership's Master's Thesis Fair, in a successful event showcasing the possibilities for students to write their thesis in collaboration with UNEP DTU Partnership experts. It is the third time UNEP DTU Partnership hosts a master's project fair for students interested in joining the partnership to write their thesis. The fair was originally scheduled to be held at DTU, but had to be cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak. However, a virtual event…
- Webinar & E-Learning 12 November 2020 Enhancing Energy Efficiency (EE) in Mozambique - eTraining Session 2 (Webinar) Module 1 - Introduction to Energy Efficiency, Policies, Strategic Plans, and Project Development 1.1 What is Energy Efficiency (EE) Introduction to EE: main features, benefits, and opportunities and integration with energy access and renewable energies 1.2 EE policy and measures The main types of energy efficiency policies and measures and some examples of their application (regulations, standards, labelling, voluntary actions, tax and financial incentives)
- Event 4 November 2020 Enhancing Energy Efficiency in East Africa (eTraining) The eTraining session will be contacted to the following 5 dates: Module 1: 16th of March, 09:30 CET Module 2 & Module 3.1-3.3: 18th of March, 09:30 CET Module 3.4-3.7: 22nd of March, 09:30 CET Module 4: 25th of March, 09:30 CET Module 5 & 6: 29th of March, 09:30 CEST If you decide to attend, our webinar system is adjusted in order to make only 1 registration. Then you will receive automatic email notifications 1 day and 1 hour before the eTraining broadcast date & time. Objective…
- Event 22 October 2020 Conference - Windaba 2020 Three Tentrans researchers are presenting at the annual Windaba Conference in South Africa in October 2020. Wikus Krueger will make a presentation titled: ‘Renewables energy auctions- global lessons’. Glen Robbins’s presentation forms part of the panel on Local Supply Chain Development and is titled: ‘Lessons from localisation failures of the past decade. And Holle Wlokas is participating on the panel on the design and evolution of future Economic Development plans with a presentation titled: …