ALER Newsletter - November 2017

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IN THE NAME OF RENEWABLES

Community Programme for Access to Renewable Energy in Bambadinca – “Bambadinca Sta Claro”

Georgios Xenakis

Responsible for the Energy Sector, Project Coordinator, TESE

Dear readers,
Bambadinca’s mini-grid was built pursuant to the Community Programme for Access to Renewable Energy in Bambadinca – “Bambadinca Sta Claro”, and a business model has been developed and implemented to ensure its sustainable operation.To ensure economic and social sustainability of the project, the management is done by a public-community partnership and in this context, the Community Energy Service of Bambadinca (SCEB) has been set up. (...)


	SECTOR NEWS

II Meeting of the CPLP Energy Ministers

The ministers responsible for energy in the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) and its representatives from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé e Príncipe and East Timor met in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil on the 22^nd of November 2017, for the II Meeting of the CPLP Energy Ministers. (...)

PALOPs at COP23

African Portuguese speaking countries were present at COP 23 in order to ask for higher technical and financial support to deal with global warming in a time where Africa is already suffering with climate change. (...)

Gilda Monjane: Women empowerment through solar energy

Gilda Monjane is a name that does not go unnoticed in the energy sector. Responsible for the “Loja de Energia” project, for which she won international awards, she is a Mozambican entrepreneur who intends to take clean energy to rural areas and at the same time to empower women. (...)

IEA World Energy Outlook 2017: New Sustainable Development Scenario

Released on 14 November, the 2017 edition of the World Energy Outlook introduces a new scenario, the Sustainable Development Scenario which describes an integrated path to achieve three critical goals: climate stabilisation, cleaner air and universal access to modern energy. (...)

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	ALER NEWS

UNIDO and ALER sign a contract agreement for renewable energies in Guinea Bissau

UNIDO and ALER, are partnering on activities to promote south-south energy cooperation between Guinea Bissau and other Portuguese-Speaking Countries and the execution of the SDG-7 (SE4ALL) campaign for Guinea Bissau. (...)

ALER Call for Proposals: Preparation of the Guinea Bissau national report

ALER has recently launch the call for proposals for the drafting and publication of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Guinea Bissau - National Status Report included in the series of ALER’s national reports.
Deadline December 17 (...)

ALER at the official visit of the President of the African Development Bank to Portugal

ALER was part of the few invited to the official visit of the President of the African Development Bank to Portugal (...)

ALER’s Conference Proceedings now available

ALER, in partnership with UEM and with the support of UKAID, compiled the proceedings of ALER's Conference in Mozambique. Check them out to see what hapenned (PT only). (...)

Check ALER’s Conference in the media

ALER's Conference in Mozambique had a great media coverage. Check all the publications (PT only). (...)

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	PUBLICATIONS

	LERenováveis (in english READ Renewables) is an online database of simple, universal and free access, that gathers renewable energy publications about Portuguese-speaking countries.