Thursday, 17 April 2008

International Conference on Renewable Energy in Africa

16-18 April 2008 Dakar, Senegal. Making Renewable Energy markets for Africa. Policies, Industries and Finance for Scaling-Up.
The obejctives of the conference are: Making use of lessons learnt and experience gained with renewable energy projects in Africa and elsewhere, the conference will examine how bottlenecks to renewable energy market related to policies, technologies, financing and capacity can be addressed so as to increase access to energy in Africa.
The conference will bring together high-level decision makers to provide visible leadership and commitment to a common strategy for market-based scaling up of renewable energies that is informed by lessons learnt from concrete case studies and the energy situation that obtains in Africa.
Reference: UNIDO