Recording of Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | The smarter E Europe | Conference Program | Language: English | Duration: 18:30 .

Deepak Mohapatra from the Alliance for Rural Electrification Discusses Tackling Global Energy and Agricultural Challenges through Decentralized Renewable Energy Initiatives.

Deepak Mohapatra, Senior Officer at Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE), delivered the wrap-up session of a conference addressing global energy access challenges. He highlighted that 685 million people globally lack electricity as per 2022 data from the SDG 7 report, and an additional 1.5 billion have unreliable access. ARE is an industry association founded in 2006 to tackle these issues by creating affordable and green energy markets across Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America & Caribbean. ARE's diverse membership includes manufacturers, NGOs, financiers among others; they focus on technologies like solar, hydro, wind biomass alongside newer areas such as green hydrogen. They also emphasize energy storage solutions to address renewables' intermittency. Mohapatra underscored ARE’s engagement with various sectors through Decentralized Renewable Energy (DRE) applications—agriculture being a key area due to its high rural reliance on it for livelihood. Collaborating with organizations like United Nations Industrial Development Organization-ITPO Germany aims to boost agricultural productivity through DRE innovations.

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Speaker

Deepak Mohapatra
Senior Officer - Business & Market Development
Alliance for Rural Electrification
Belgium

Talk of session: Off-Grid: Decentralized Water-Energy-Food Nexus

In this session, we take a look at the latest developments in decentralized water-energy-food supply technologies and systems.

Further Talks of this session:

Welcome and Introduction

Speaker

Dr. Philipp Blechinger
Head of Unit Off-Grid Systems
Reiner Lemoine Institut gGmbH
Germany

To Talk

Improve Access to Water and Food With Decentralized Energies

Speaker

Bärbel Höhn
BMZ Special Representative for Energy in Africa
Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Germany

To Talk

Productive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) as Driver for a Green Development

Speaker

Stefan Trittler
Head of Innovation / Project Principal
Asantys Systems GmbH
Germany

To Talk

Planning of Integrated Water-Energy-Food-Environment Systems Using Open Software

Speaker

Julian Fleischmann
Reseracher and PhD Student
University of Freiburg

To Talk

Implementing Community-based Agrivoltaic Systems in SSA: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies

Speaker

Jessica Berneiser
Researcher
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE
Germany

To Talk

Q&A Round

To Talk

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