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In this Issue Highlights | Energy Sector News | New Publications | Opportunities | Upcoming Events | Jobs |
Collaboration with LEDsafari |
Energypedia is happy to welcome its new partner, LEDsafari. We will work with LEDsafari on promoting knowledge creation and sharing on solar topics.
LEDsafari is based in Switzerland and develops innovative digital products to help solar companies in developing countries. LEDsafari’s flagship product, an online training platform (HelioLearn©) uses unique pedagogy and easy to understand content, which makes it easy to train people with low technical background on PV technologies. HelioLearn© has been developed over the years and covers content from solar home system to mini-grid to business. Book a course by using the promotion code on this page. |
Welcome our New Intern: Ahmed Noaman El-Sherbini |
Ahmed, our new intern, will assist us with the daily maintenance of the energypedia platform. He is currently studying Environmental and Resource Management at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg. He is interested in the relationship between socio-economic energy needs of small communities and suitable renewable energy technologies to meet those needs. He aims to research it further in his master thesis. You can contact Ahmed at ahmed.elsherbini@energypedia.info.
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Meet Us in Bonn at the IRENA Innovation Week 2018 |
Meet our colleague Johanna at the IRENA Innovation Week from 5-7 September at Bonn, Germany. This event will bring together around 250 leading companies, innovators and policy makers to discuss how innovations in technologies, business models, system operations and sector coupling can accelerate the renewable power transition.
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s-@ccess: International Conference on Solar Technologies & Hybrid Mini Grids to Improve Energy Access |
The participants of the s-@ccess conference will hear presentations on key energy issues such as market development, productive end uses, training and knowledge transfer and so on in different parallel sessions. They can also discuss access topics in different roundtables or explore the large poster and trade exhibition to get practical know how.
Make sure to register before 7th of September for a reduced fee! Browse through the program and save your spot for s-@ccess at the Unversitat de les Illes Balears in Palma, Spain on October 17-19, 2018! Energypedia is proud to be one of the supporting organizations for this conference. Also if you are around, don't forget to meet our colleague Johanna there. |
Article of the Month |
Market Development Scorecard: Developed by the Energising Development (EnDev) partnership, this scorecard helps to investigate, measure, and effectively stimulate the market development for modern energy products and services. It offers: a starting point for determining the level of market development; a scorecard with 19 market development indicators; a guideline for developing baseline scenarios and predictions on how markets could develop; and for tracking actual developments against those predictions.
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Wiki Tip of the Month: Update Your Profile |
Have you started a new job, gathered new experiences or simply changed your email address? Then it's time to update your profile on energypedia! Your profile page is a great opportunity to let others know about your expertise, what you are working on as well as to stay in touch with other users. To update your profile page, please log into energypedia. Go to the top right corner and hover over your name. A drop-down menu will appear. Click on "My Profile" option in the menu. You will then be directed to your profile page. Click on edit profile to make the necessary changes and then save the page. Read more…
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Myanmar has the Lowest Access to Electricity in Southeast Asia |
About 70 percent of the households in Myanmar get electricity for only about 2 hours per day and stand at Tier 1, according to the World Bank’s Multi-Tier Framework (MTF) survey. The Myanmar Government supplies electricity via the power grid and solar power systems. The power grid is highly unreliable and since the users have to pay 10 percent of the cost of installing the solar systems, many cannot afford it. Read more...
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Global Electrification Database: Datasets and Codebook |
This dataset contains new data on household electrification rates for 124 non-OECD countries. Some of the datasets go back to 1960 and in most cases, the data cover rural, urban and aggregate electrification rates. The dataset is freely available. Read more...
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Renewable Energy Adaptation and Climate Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa - Ethiopia, 7 September 2018
Empowering People Award 2019, 31 October 2018
US-India Clean Energy Finance Initiative Call for Applications, 31 December 2018
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