Friday, 08 April

Dear <<First Name>>

Camco is committed to supporting the drive towards gender equality across the clean energy sector and beyond. A vital part of achieving equality requires the private sector, governments and funders all working together and building on each other’s experiences. 

On Wednesday, we will be co-hosting an online forum with 2X Collaborative that will be exploring what can and needs to be done to ensure women are at the forefront developing the renewable energy sectors in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). 

As in any part of the world, women in SIDS have a critical role in ensuring an energy future that is clean, fair and sustainable – as well as for building the islands’ resilience to climate change. But significant barriers exist that are making it harder for women in SIDS to participate in the renewable energy sector, whether as company leaders and entrepreneurs or as employees.  

Improving stakeholders’ understanding of these key issues – as well as how women can be best served by the sector as end-users – will be the primary focus of Wednesday’s forum.  

We are delighted to have His Excellency Chad Blackman, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Barbados to the UN in Geneva as our keynote speaker. Ambassador Blackman is the Chair of the UNCTAD Geneva SIDS Group and a UN International Gender Champions Global Board Member, which makes him excellently placed to speak with authority on the forum’s theme. 

The keynote will be followed by a panel discussion with industry and gender experts, and will conclude with a Q&A with the audience. For more info on the event and speakers, please click here. 

The 90-minute forum runs from 9:00am – 10:30am PDT / 6.00pm - 7.30pm CET. Register here to save your seat now. 

Cheers

Geoff Sinclair

Managing Director, Camco Clean Energy

West Africa

Senegal: GIZ finances solar pumping system (Afrik21)
- The 14.8kW facility, located in Khor Bango, will serve 400 market gardeners over a distance of 7km via an irrigation canal as part of the Sustainable Energy for Entrepreneurship and Climate Programme.

Sierra Leone: Solar Tyme USA seeks financing for solar projects (CR) 
- The solar installation and development firm is aiming to raise USD1.75 million to build a solar microgrid and solar power plant. 

East Africa

Kenya: KenGen completes Olkaria I Additional Unit 6 (CR) 
- The 83.3MW geothermal facility, scheduled to kick-start commercial operation in June 2022, will diversify the country’s power generation mix.

Uganda: The Nyamwanba II plant reaches commercial operation (ESI) 
- The USD2.2 million run-of-river hydroelectric project has a capacity of 7.8MW and will provide clean and reliable energy to the local power supply.

Southern Africa

Mozambique: Neoen commissions Metoro Solar power plant (Afrik21)   
- The ground-mounted 41MWp solar PV plant will supply electricity to the Mozambican national grid over a 20-year PPA.

Namibia: Windhoek and Berlin partner to propel green hydrogen development (Afrik21) 
- The Namibian and German governments have signed a joint declaration of intent to catalyse the research, development and production of green hydrogen.

South Africa: Country establishes a green finance taxonomy (ESI) 
- The new scheme of classification aims to ensure that national priorities are reflected in financing measures and help industry players to track, monitor and demonstrate the credentials of their green projects.

South Africa: Department of Mineral Resource and Energy launches renewables tender (PV Magazine) 
- To kick off the sixth round of REIPPPP, there has been an invitation for bids for 1GW of utility-scale solar and 1.6GW of wind.

Africa - other

Africa: IPCC recommends a ramp up in climate finance (Afrik21) 
- The intergovernmental body of the United Nations believes that, to limit global warming to 1.5C by 2100, the climate finance flows in Africa must increase by up to 8 times.

DRC: Andritz completes rehabilitation work on hydroelectric power station (Afrik21)
- The relaunch of the Mwadingusha plant has increased the capacity of the power plant from 12.8MW to 13.05MW per unit, giving a total capacity of 78.3MW.

Rest of the world

Renewables: UK’s new energy strategy faces criticism (renewablesnow)
- The strategy has been labelled as ‘wholly inadequate’ by the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology.

Report: IPCC reiterate the urgency of energy transition (theguardian)
- This week's report by IPCC's working group 3 calls for immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors to ward off an unstoppable climate crisis.

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