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Our CEO Kristina Skierka participated in The Rockefeller Foundation launch of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP) during UN Climate Week, which put forward a results-driven roadmap to end energy poverty by 2030. Our PEAK research team meanwhile attended the Smarter Mobility Summit and Financing the Future Summit. Next up: KIREC and Global Green Growth Week.
With the rapid adoption of cost-competitive clean energy, energy storage, and electrified transportation – along with new business and regulatory models supporting resiliency, zero-carbon resources, and customer choice – this event offers an unprecedented opportunity to connect with key stakeholders and explore what’s next in the utility sector.
Power for All was part of a strategy session in Geneva of the Sustainable Energy & Jobs Platform, which was first announced in May at the United Nations by IRENA and the International Labor Organization (ILO), and included the World Bank, GGGI, UNIDO, Power for All and the European Commission.
How can South-South cooperation be scaled up in support of the implementation of SDG7? The Director General of the International Solar Alliance shares insights about ISA’s significance in global deployment of distributed solar energy and its progress to date.
Dutch company NOTS Solar Lamps plans to set up a factory in Rwanda to manufacture equipment for home solar kit suppliers. CEO Bart Hartman discusses the reasons why, and plans for future market expansion.
Our CEO Kristina Skierka participated in The Rockefeller Foundation launch of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP) during UN Climate Week, which put forward a results-driven roadmap to end energy poverty by 2030. Our PEAK research team meanwhile attended the Smarter Mobility Summit and Financing the Future Summit. Next up: KIREC and Global Green Growth Week.
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Power for All has released the first annual jobs census measuring employment from decentralized renewables for rural electrification in Africa and Asia, Powering Jobs Census 2019: the Energy Access Workforce.
Decentralized renewables have the potential to create up to 52,000 direct, formal and 24,000 informal jobs in Nigeria by 2022-23.
Some of the upcoming events we will be attending:
Poor People’s Energy Outlook (PPEO) by Practical Action highlights best-practice for bottom-up energy planning, policy, finance, and scaling. Finance and subsidy are key. So is more focus on social uses: street lighting, health, education.