EELA Webinar Series

The Accessing financing for energy efficient lighting and appliances and the EELA Technical Assistance and Co-Financing Facility webinar seeks to share experience from financiers and energy efficiency practitioners on the opportunities and challenges of accessing funding for implementing energy efficiency projects. The webinar will also share information on the EELA Technical Assistance and Co-financing facility including the modalities of accessing technical support and funding from the facility.

The target audience includes the following: -

• Energy users from both the public and private sectors encompassing the following:
  
  • Municipalities
  • Agriculture
  • Commercial sector (retailing, building etc)
  • Manufacturing/processing
  • Hospitality
• Energy service providers including
  
  • Energy service companies (ESCOs)
  • Equipment leasing firms
  • Financial institutions
• Other players in the energy sector including
  
  • Manufacturers of lighting and other appliances
  • Policymakers
  • Development partners
  • Regulators

High-level presenters from a regional financial institution as well as an experienced energy efficiency profession will make presentations at the webinar. The EELA team will make a presentation on the EELA Technical Assistance and Co-financing facility. The webinar will include a panel discussion involving panelists from local financial institutions and project developers.

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Webinar Description:

Repairability is a manageable and realistic mechanism for product lifetime extension. Quantifiable assessments, like the new European standard for the assessment of repairability, reusability and upgradeability, have introduced new steps for increasing the sustainability of electronic and electrical products. The global off-grid solar sector is presented with an important opportunity to demonstrate its leadership on sustainability, whilst creating more value for consumers and companies.

This webinar is based on a working paper by Efficiency for Access and University of Edinburgh that provides up to date information on repair and repairability in the off-grid solar sector for manufacturers, distributors, energy access policy makers and researchers.

The specific objectives of the webinar are to make EAC and SADC stakeholders understand the benefits and barriers to increasing repair, to provide a set of parameters and metrics for evaluating the ability to repair products, and to identify policy needs and opportunities that can inform decisions about product design interventions and business models that will extend the lifetime of off-grid product.

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The webinar will focus on the monitoring, verification, and enforcement of the minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) for energy efficient lighting and appliances. There are a lot of inefficient and substandard appliances in the SADC and EAC regions. The webinar will provide knowledge and information on the development, and implementation of minimum energy performance standards for appliances.

The responsible authorities will be empowered to conduct market surveillance for energy efficient appliances, and make efforts to reduce the inefficient and substandard products in the market. Substandard products affect the market for energy efficient appliances, economy, and environment.

Moderator: Ms. Bettina Schreck – Montreal Protocol Division, UNIDO

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