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Open Session

Objectives: 

The first session is focused on the transformative power of digital technologies in the renewable energy sector. The spotlight will be on the Capacity optimization technology (and transition to renewable energy), Digital applications in the renewable energy sector and digitalization (tools and solutions), AI Integration in Renewable Energy (including automation, smart grids, smart cities).

The session will be dedicated to share experience on digital solutions developed among different LEAP-RE Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 projects and the Digital Energy Partnership (programme funded by the European Commission) aiming to support start up and utilities in innovative solutions for digitalization of energy sector.
Participants: Stakeholders, AU-EU representatives, policy
makers, experts

Moderator: Tinyiko Ntshongwan, Deputy Director for Africa Multilateral Cooperation at the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) at Rhodes University South Africa

Panelists/Speakers: 

Marco Bovo, Associate Professor at University of Bologna (UNIBO) at the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, SETADISMA report: Sustainable Energy Transition and Digitalization of Smart Mini-Grids for Africa project 

Cyril Renault, Energy task team leader at Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) 

Malte Lindenmeyer, Coordinator of OASES: research project on Development and Demonstration of a Sustainable Open Access AU-EU Ecosystem for Energy System Modelling at Fraunhofer IEE (Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology)

Giacomo Falchetta, coordinates modelling at RE4AFAGRI: Renewables for African Agriculture (LEAP-RE project), Scientist at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and the European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), completed PhD and postdoctoral research positions

Azeddine Houari, Project Coordinator MiDiNA: A comprehensive methodological approach on the development potential of microgrids and the integration of renewable energies in North Africa (LEAP-RE project), Electrical Engineering at Nantes University, completed PhD and postdoctoral research positions