Microgrids and Distributed Energy Resource (DER) integration

Projects demonstrating the growth and development of microgrids driven by a need for greater grid reliability, more distributed energy resources, or more generation to allow power producers and their customers better control of energy costs.

Through a private-public partnership, Havenhill Synergy Limited and the Rural Electrification Agency intend to end blackouts in Nigeria.

Aaron Leopold is the CEO of the Africa Minigrid Developers Association (AMDA), which is dedicated to radically scaling the sector to end energy poverty.

Getty Kasole grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, she has been living in the USA for over 10 years and received her degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Energy generation landscape in Africa is changing to adopt more decentralised models such as the roll out of rural solar microgrid.