Significant efforts continue to be made to train and support local entrepreneurs in their approaches and projects involving renewable energies, as we have seen in recent weeks with Serengeti Energy at the continental level and GIZ in Côte d'Ivoire.In Ghana, a solar power station and a storage unit will be developed by the Chinese Huawei, while in Sierra Leone, the UN is investing $3.5 million so that the most remote villages have access to energy.But it is Nigeria that has shown the biggest turning point in recent days with the launch last Thursday of its Energy Transition Plan: a total of $1.6 trillion will be needed by 2060. And, obviously, Turkey intends play its full role in the country's energy transition.Faced with the observation that more than 500 million people in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to electricity, Serengeti Energy, in collaboration with the Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN), announced on August 11 the launch of the incubator Umoja 2022.This incubator aims to help future entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa in renewable energies to carry out their project.The aim is to improve the “bankability” of the most promising renewable energy projects through access to commercial and technical knowledge and by securing their financing.The application period is open until September 4, 2022 by applying at https://www.serengetienergy.com/incubator/ after which a jury made up of leading industrial partners will evaluate the projects.Top applicants to the program will be invited to a week-long workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, where the winner of the first Umoja incubator will be announced.The program is funded by the Serengeti Technical Assistance Facility which includes the German Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW), the Nordic Development Fund (NDF), the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the Agency Korea International Cooperation (KOICA).From August 10 to 12 in San Pedro in Côte d'Ivoire, the German cooperation agency, GIZ, organized a workshop to raise awareness among economic actors of the regulations and technological developments in the field of renewable energies, reports Afriksoir .It was recalled that several regulatory regimes apply to the autonomous production of energiesLet us recall that the GIZ has, in Côte d'Ivoire, a professional training project for renewable energies and energy efficiency (ProFERE).Huawei Digital Power Technologies, a unit of Chinese tech giant Huawei, recently entered into an agreement with Meinergy Technology, a Ghana-based solar project developer, for the on-site construction of a 1 GW solar power plant combined with a capacity of storage of 500 MWh in the coming years, the group said in mid-August.The deal sees Huawei providing solar and storage systems for the project, while Meinergy will be responsible for the development and construction of the facility.“The project will be spread over 12 sites where PV power plants ranging from 80 to 100 MW will be deployed.Each of them will be associated with approximately 50 MWh of storage.We have already launched the construction of two 100 MW facilities.By the end of the year, we aim to connect the first 200 MW to the grid.An additional 200 MW should then be deployed annually,” Kevin Wu, CEO of Meinergy, and Peter Acheampong, Deputy Director of Renewable Energy at Bui Power Authority, told PV Magazine.- Nigeria launched its Energy Transition Plan last Thursday.Support of $1.5 billion has been announced by the World Bank and Nigeria is hoping to secure another $1.5 billion from a US-based institution, reports African Media Agency (AMA).“We plan to deploy more than $1.5 billion in support of the Energy Transition Plan on renewables, power sector reforms, clean cooking, and wherever opportunities arise,” said Shubham Chaudhuri, Nigeria Country Director of the World Bank.At COP26 in Glasgow last year, President Buhari announced that he wanted to reach "Net Zero" by 2060. The plan is already supported by Sustainable Energy for All and the Transition Commission (ETC) of COP26 and Nigeria is looking for partners specialized in innovation and financing at scale.In total, the country needs to invest $1.9 trillion by 2060 to reach "Net Zero", or $410 billion more than normal projected spending, which is about $10 billion per year until 2060 to achieve its goals.- Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) has signed an agreement with Turkish firm Energy Exchange Instanbul (EXIST) to ramp up renewable energy investments at the African giant, Blueprint reports today.This is part of the federal government's commitment to diversifying the country's energy mix and transitioning to a low-carbon economy.“Around 54% of Turkey's electricity generation capacity comes from renewable energy, including hydro, wind, solar, geothermal and biomass power plants.Make Turkey the 5th largest producer of renewable energy in Europe and the 12th in the world,” said Yunusa Abdulahi, communications adviser to Nigerian Finance Minister Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed.Only 26% of the population of Sierra Leone has access to electricity, mainly in urban and peri-urban areas.This is one of the lowest electricity access rates in the world, recalls Euclid Infotech.With nearly $3.6 million in funding from the Government of Japan, the UN through United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is implementing a project on behalf of Sierra Leone's Ministry of Energy to help expand access to energy in remote villages.Under the project, UNOPS constructed a distribution network for solar PV mini-grid systems in six underserved rural communities reaching some 15,000 people: Grima Tikonko, Lower Saama, Naiagolehun, Petewoma, Serabu and Upper Sama.Using the distribution grid, a private sector operator will build a mini-grid system that will produce 330 kilowatts of solar electricity.This will supply electricity to schools, pharmacies, households, businesses and six community health centers, which will receive 6.6 kilowatt hours per day of free electricity.This project complements two other projects implemented by UNOPS, one funded by UK Aid and the other by the World Bank.Africa has charted its course, thus taking a “great step forward”: it will continue to deploy all forms of its abundant resources…Reports, forums, training, investments, conventions, together sound the alarm: the climate emergency is indeed there and...In West Africa, agricultural and agro-industrial issues remain easily linked to those of renewable energies.The news...In West Africa, agricultural and agro-industrial issues remain easily linked to those of renewable energies.The news...Your advertising on our site60 years of agricultural cooperation between the European Union and Côte d'Ivoire© Commodafrica 2014. 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