April 26, 2012 London
AREA partner of Global LEAP Initiative
Global Lighting and Energy Access Partnership launched
AREA is partnering with the Global LEAP initiative which will be launched on the 26th April 2012 in London, UK during the joint press conference for the Clean Energy Ministerial and the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative. Global LEAP is a voluntary forum that brings together governments, the private sector, and development partners to share knowledge and best practices under a set of commonly held principles to encourage self-sustaining commercial markets for energy access solutions.
AREA shares the commitment of the Global LEAP principles.
January 2012
Power to the People!
Access to sustainable, renewable energy in Africa
An AREA video contributing to the
UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.
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November 2011 Casablanca, Morocco
AREA partnering with CAFELEC
CAFELEC and the Steering Committee of the African Renewable Energy Alliance (AREA) have identified vast synergies in their goal to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy in Africa.
Therefore CAFELEC and AREA have agreed to partner in this endeavor through supporting the work of AREA by establishing a regional AREA office in Casablanca, Morocco. The Confédération Africaine d’Electricité CAFELEC is a newly established body, which regroups the national electrical federations of Cameroun, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal and Morocco.
23.-24.11.2011 Casablanca, Morocco
4th AREA Steering Committee Meeting
Hosted by the Fédération Nationale de l’Electricité, de l’Electronique et d’Energies Renouvelables (FENELEC) Morocco.
Seven members of the AREA SC deliberated on the organisational development of the African Renewable Energy Alliance, AREA's work programme for 2012
and funding schemes for AREA's operations.
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"We now have a dark Africa, but we need to put a light on. For poverty to be eradicated, everyone needs energy. Renewable energy is the answer to sustain our livelihoods."
Mrs. Bulelwa Tinto,
Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Energy, South Africa
Supported by:
Policy website of the World Future Council