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IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) Coverage
IISD RS has provided daily web coverage and a summary reports from these events. In order to download our reports, click the HTML or PDF icons below. |
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 IRENA events at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES)
19-21 January 2015 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Coverage on Monday, 19 January 2015
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On Monday, 19 January 2015, participants at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) attended a number of IRENA events including “Regional renewables: power without borders”, “Socio-economic benefits of solar and wind energy” and “Funding opportunities for renewable energy projects in developing countries through the IRENA/Abu Dhabi fund for development project facility”.
During the session on power without borders participants highlighted, among others, IRENA’s new Regulatory Empowerment Project the importance developing regional institutions and transmission infrastructure, IRENA’s work on regional clean energy corridors and the results of a soon-to-be-published IRENA report on the lessons learnt from Swedish-Norwegian certificate market.
Participants at the session on the socio-economic benefits of solar and wind energy highlighted IRENA’s Multilateral Solar and Wind Working Group’s econValue project to analyze the socio-economic benefits of renewable energy deployment, policies in the socioeconomic value chain that support deployment of renewable energy at country or regional level, tradeoffs and priority issues for optimizing socio-economic benefits of renewable energy and the link between renewable energies and economic growth.
In the session on funding opportunities, Seleha Lockwood, IRENA, explained that the UAE pledged US$350 million in concessional loans over seven annual cycles through the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) for renewable energy projects recommended by IRENA in developing countries. She described the application process for the loans and noted that in the first cycle US$41 million in concessional loans was allocated with US$42 million from other sources, which resulted in 21 MW of new capacity. Beneficiaries included Ecuador, Mali, Maldives, Mauritania, Samoa and Sierra Leone.
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| Bo Diczfalusy, Director, Ministry of the Environment and Energy, Sweden |
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| Anders Plejdrup Houmøller, HoumollerConsulting, Denmark |
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| L-R: Estella Pancaldi, Gestore dei Servizi Energetici Spa (GSE); Ahmed Ebrahim, Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority (GCCIA); Stefan Gsanger, The World Wind Energy Association (WWEA); Péter Kaderják, Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research (ERRA); Chaiwat Muncharoen, Asian Greenhouse Gas Management Center (AGMC); and Elijah Sichone, Regional Electricity Regulators Association of Southern Africa |
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| Elijah Sichone, Regional Electricity Regulators Association of Southern Africa |
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| Ahmed Ebrahim, Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority (GCCIA) |
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| Barbara Breitschopf, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) |
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| Funding for coverage of these events has been provided by IRENA
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IRENA Resources
 IRENA Assembly Website and Documents
IRENA Assembly Provisional Annotated Agenda
Schedule of Assembly and other IRENA events during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week
IRENA Membership
IRENA Council Information
IRENA Statute
IISD RS Resources
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IISD RS coverage of WFES 2012, 16-19 January 2012, Abu Dhabi, UAE
IISD RS coverage of the Pacific Leaders Meeting and Second Session of the IRENA Assembly, 13 and 14-15 January 2012, Abu Dhabi, UAE
IISD RS summary report of the Workshop on Renewables – Competitiveness and Innovation, and the Official Opening of the IRENA International Innovation and Technology Centre (IITC), 6-7 October 2011, Bonn, Germany (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS summary report of the Workshop on the Occasion of the Official Innovation and Technology Centre (IITC) Inauguration, 6 October 2011, Bonn, Germany (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the High-Level Africa Consultative Forum on Renewable Energy, 8-9 July 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE
IISD RS coverage of the Fifth Session of the Preparatory Commission for IRENA and First session of the Assembly of IRENA, 3-5 April 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE
IISD RS coverage of WFES 2011, 17-20 January 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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