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Archive for 2012

Clean Energy Events Listing: Brazil, South Africa & USA

We’re in full swing preparing for Rio+20, which will mark REEEP’s 10th birthday. One major activity is a speed-brokering event that we will be co-hosting with UN DESA; see below for details on how to pre-register. If you’re not going to be in Rio, don’t worry, I’ve got news of a major RE finance event [...]

Global portal for renewable energy education launched: IRELP

We have been supporting IRENA since last year on their development of an online platform for renewable energy education and training. Well, I’m pleased to say that it was launched at CEM3 in London a couple of weeks ago, so is now available. It’s called IRENA’s Renewable Energy Learning Partnership (IRELP) and is available at [...]

Getting mini-hydro in Tanzania on track

A key challenge facing developers of small hydro projects in Tanzania is the lack of access to finance. To help counter this, GVEP is implementing a Pre-Investment Technical Support programme in collaboration with the World Bank and Tanzania’s Rural Energy Agency (REA). The aim of this programme is to build the capacity of project developers [...]

Clean Energy Events Listing: Brazil, South Africa, Hong Kong, Kenya, Canada, Belgium

June will be a busy month on the Clean Energy events front. Of course there’s Rio+20, where a number of my REEEP colleagues will be. I’ve got news of a major event running alongside that, but if you can’t make it to Brazil there’s plenty more that month in Brussels, Durban, Hong Kong, Nairobi, Toronto… [...]

For many developing countries cooking and heating needs in rural areas are met by traditional cookstoves reliant on biomass fuels. This month, GVEP International was invited to present at a Clean Cookstoves Workshop aimed at engaging the support of Government of Malawi . On April 11, the US Embassy hosted a Clean Cookstove Symposium in [...]

Yesterday and today we are attending the CEM3 meetings in London and in the margins of these important meetings two projects are introduced – the Global Solar and Wind Atlas and the IRENA Learning and Education Partnership. reegle provides data and support for both initiatives and we are confident that both activities are an important [...]

 

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