The African Hydrogen Partnership, AHP, Preparation Meeting - the first multinational conference of AHP in Africa to take place at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC-AA) in Addis Ababa Ethiopia on the 19th and 20th February 2020 organized by African Hydrogen Partnership, AHP, and hosted by Flawlessevents.
Current and other future AHP members will discuss and vote on crucial topics in order to formally establish the African Hydrogen Partnership at its first Annual General Meeting, which will be announced at the end of the conference. Thursday 20th February will be a day of presentations, exploring the first large-scale hydrogen, ammonia and fuel cell related activities and projects underway in Africa.
Senior officials from African government and parastatal organizations as well as leaders of industrial companies and financial institutions are expected to participate. The AHP Preparation Meeting will provide an excellent networking opportunity to meet other stakeholders in the hydrogen economy with a focus on Africa according to ahp press release.
The press release at the official launch of the program reads that Energising Development (EnDev) launched a new programming cycle at the beginning of 2019. Based on the outcome of that programming cycle, EnDev Ethiopia, together with the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy of Ethiopia, started the implementation of phase III from July 2019 to run until December 2022 with additional 9.4 million EUR.
The new phase will focus on the policy support and development of financial systems. The support will be directed towards developing and growing the market for modern renewable energy technologies and services as well as energy efficiency solutions in Ethiopia.
Written by Ethiopian Energy & Power Business Portal
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The Nordic countries, which have vast experiences on the utilization of renewable energy, offered energy solutions to assist Ethiopia in harnessing renewable energy resources. The Nordic countries expressed their commitments to share their rich experiences to Ethiopia in a seminar held on Thursday at the Addis Ababa Radisson Blu Hotel. The Embassies of Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland organized the consultative meeting in collaboration with Nordic Energy Research aimed at heightening the security of the energy supply in Ethiopia by applying successful and sustainable energy solutions from the Nordic countries.
In her key note address Unnur Ramette Ambassador of Iceland pointed out that only 35 percent of the African population has access to electricity and African countries’ prospect of expanding their electricity network is challenging. Ambassador Ramette expressed the Nordic countries commitment through the “Nordic Energy Solutions”, an initiative launched by Nordic Prime Ministers, to assist the development of renewable energy resources in Ethiopia. “Nordic Energy Solutions is committed to share Nordic innovations and technologies to address energy challenges,” she said. “We have a family of Nordic financial institutions Nordic Development Fund, Nordic Environmental Facility Cooperation and the Nordic Investment Bank,” she added.
