Friday, 15 October

Dear <<First Name>>

This week we held our annual REPP Academy, a capacity-building event that provides a knowledge-sharing platform and networking opportunities for REPP investees, investors and other key industry stakeholders.

This year’s focus was on how to scale up electricity access through mini-grids and isolated grids in Africa, and over the course of four days attendees took part in a mix of short presentations, group discussions, one-on-one meetings and networking sessions to help further the market’s successful development.

From the feedback I’ve had so far, the Academy has been a huge success and I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part for their energy and enthusiasm for collaboration. There are too many people to mention here, but I would like to single out Camco’s policy and partnerships manager Ieva Indriunaite who designed and managed the event, and to the wider Camco team who supported her. Well done everyone!

The Academy was a closed-door event, but we are already working on collating the many key insights to come out of it and we will be sharing those publicly in due course. We’ll let you know when we do.

Cheers

Geoff Sinclair

Managing Director, Camco Clean Energy

West Africa

Burkina Faso: Partnership formed with IFC to drive renewable energy (PowerEngineering)
- The International Finance Corporation has helped the nation develop a roadmap for increasing clean energy and storage systems.

Ghana/Sierra Leone: Eiffel Investment Group lends EUR3 million for solar power (Afrik21)
- ManoCap Energy will use the loan to provide clean energy to commercial and industrial customers.

East Africa

Burundi: EU launches renewable energy programmes worth EUR10.6 million (Afrik21)
- EDFI ElectriFI and GET.invest’s main aim is to encourage private investment in renewable energy.

Seychelles: New solar plant supplies 90% of Desroches’ electricity (Afrik21)
- The plant is operated by South African company Sustainable Power Solutions and is the second largest in the country.

Southern Africa

South Africa: British High Commission announces support for 13 low carbon projects (AEP)
- The projects include renewable energy and solar-powered battery charging and will receive support to access finance from investors.

South Africa: Electrolux aims to eradicate electricity usage from national grid (EngineeringNews)
- The organisation is developing a 1MW solar energy system that will power its Benoni factory.

Zimbabwe: Solgas Energy commissions 5MWp solar power plant (Afrik21)
- The grid-connected plant in located Hwange, in the Northern Matabeleland province, is the first phase of a 50WMp project on the same site.

Africa - general

Africa: GCF allocates USD1.2 billion to fight climate change (Afrik21)
- The funding will support programs to build resilience to the effects of climate change around the world. Several African countries are among the recipients of this climate funding.

Sahel: AfDB-owned Desert to Power initiative receives USD150 million investment from GCF (Afrik21)
- The facility aims to support the G5 Sahel countries in adopting low-emission power generation by tapping into the region’s abundant solar potential.

Rest of World

USA: 300MW solar site unveiledin Colorado (renews)
- Lightsource BP, Xcel Energy and EVRAZ North America have collectively invested USD285 million into the project.

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