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Recording of Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | The smarter E Europe | Conference Program | Language: English | Duration: 2:24 .

Micro Energy International's Noara Kabir Leads Session on Digitalization to Accelerate Off-Grid Renewable Energy Projects Across 70 Countries

Noara Kebir, the managing director of MicroEnergy International, introduces a session on "Digitalization to Speed Up Off-Grid Projects." Her organization has been working for 22 years across over 70 countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia towards energy transformation from the ground up. The session focuses on how digitalization can accelerate decentralized renewable energy (DRE) projects. Kebir appreciates that while DRE systems operate independently to create value and drive change locally, digital tools offer a way to integrate these disparate systems into a more centralized framework. This integration facilitates better information exchange, experience sharing, control mechanisms, and other collaborative efforts among various distributed energy setups. During this session, there will be five presentations by different speakers who have already collaborated closely on related topics. Together they aim to explore how digitization can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of off-grid renewable energy solutions.

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Noara Kebir
Senior Managing Consultant
MicroEnergy Consulting
Germany

In the session, the role of digital tools and innovations in scaling up energy access was discussed.

Further Talks of this session:

Speaker

Philipp Waigel
Advisor
GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
India

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

To Talk

Speaker

Veit Goehringer
Advisor
GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
India

To Talk

Speaker

Josef Hermann
Independent Energy Consultant
Germany

To Talk

Speaker

Justin Tinsey
Vice President, Procurement Solutions
Odyssey Energy Solutions
United States

To Talk

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