10 Jan 2012
by GVEP International - Category: Contributed News
A five-year programme rewards entrepreneurship across East Africa by supporting micro-businesses to establish energy services and create employment opportunities in rural areas. Willy Bamwenyena, 25, stands out as a young resourceful entrepreneur, who has been able to identify the energy gap in his community, in rural Uganda, and turned the need into a business opportunity. [...]
20 Oct 2011
by GVEP International - Category: Contributed News
The launch of an EU sponsored programme training rural electrification operators in West Africa, took place in Bamako last week. Funded by the EU Energy Facility 2011, the 875,000 Euros programme will set up local training facilities to promote the electrification of rural areas through access to sustainable and modern energy services. The Malian Minister [...]
14 Apr 2011
by GVEP International - Category: Contributed News
Despite recent progress, many regions in Tanzania are still grappling with low access to electricity and the lack of basic infrastructure. In partnership with GVEP International and the Developing Energy Enterprises Project (DEEP), Ruth Musenye is overcoming these challenges by expanding and diversifying her solar-charging business.
07 Jun 2010
by GVEP International - Category: Contributed News
Energy for Sustainable Development (E4SD) has just launched a new complementary capacity building activity, aimed at promoting active dialogue and exchange of ideas to respond to key challenges related to energy for sustainable development. Unlike the E4SD Online Course, the “Policy Dialogue” focuses on one specific topic at the time, which gets explored in greater [...]
10 Feb 2010
by Florian Bauer - Category: Events
Our partners from Leonardo Energy are just starting a new Training course on “Concentrated Solar Thermal Power”. Seville University holds a long tradition on Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSTP) research. Its students become key players at research centers and solar energy departments of companies. One of the “fathers” of CSTP in Spain, Manuel Silva, will [...]
Electricity market reform is an ever-lasting issue. Most countries of the world are involved in processes of liberalization of their electricity markets. We all hear about promoting competition, natural monopolies that need to be regulated, incentives to reduce costs and energy losses, infrastructure expansion, security and quality of supply, grid access tariffs… Electricity market becomes [...]