Training and Events

Scaling Up Renewable Energy (SURE)

In today’s rapidly evolving renewable energy marketplace, it can be challenging to keep track of emerging trends and best practices in renewable energy policy, innovations, and market trends.

SURE hosts in-person and online events to help partners gain knowledge and capacity to succeed. We are committed to interventions that are country-led and country-owned.

 

Webinars

  • Webinar

    Circular Economy for Sustainable Renewable Energy

    Learn about the use of ecolabels such as EPEAT to advance sustainable renewable energy supply chains and promote the transition to a circular economy. View the webinar

  • Webinar

    Exploring Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Learn how energy efficiency tools applied by USAID in sub-Saharan countries can reduce electricity costs for businesses and consumers over the long term while creating local jobs and reducing emissions. View the webinar

  • Webinar

    Variable Renewable Energy Generation Forecasting and Integration with Dispatching

    This webinar explores how Indonesia, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan navigated the complexities of variable renewable energy generation forecasting and its integration with dispatching and market operations. View the webinar

  • Webinar

    Designing Power System-Friendly Auctions

    This webinar examines how to design auctions that support variable renewable energy integration to the power grid and wholesale electricity markets. View the webinar

  • Webinar

    Bangladesh Renewable Energy Development Webinar Series 2

    Focused on Bangladesh, this second webinar series introduces common best practices and emerging solutions that help countries efficiently deliver renewable energy technologies to the grid. View the webinar

  • Webinar

    Kazakhstan: Energy Diversity through Renewables

    This webinar examines, through the lens of the Kazakhstan experience, how to design renewable energy auction programs that diversify a country’s energy mix, attract private investment, and achieve competitive prices. View the webinar

  • Webinar

    Bangladesh Renewable Energy Development Webinar Series 1

    Focused on Bangladesh, this webinar series provides fundamental knowledge and resources to make informed decisions about renewable energy procurement and wind project development. View the webinar

  • Webinar

    Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Auction Design

    This one-hour webinar introduces auction design concepts and examines lessons learned from international experience. View the webinar

  • Webinar

    India: Round-the-Clock Power Procurement

    India explores how this new renewable energy procurement approach reduces the costs to the system, minimizes intermittency, and matches power supply and demand. View the webinar

Events

  • Workshop

    Key Achievements and a Way Forward

    This virtual workshop highlights the accomplishments of USAID energy partners in Bangladesh, discusses lessons learned, and passes on recommendations and best practices that can be applied to future energy programs. View the workshop

  • Dialogue

    Asia EDGE Regional Competitive Procurement Dialogue

    This three-day event introduced participants to advanced procurement trends and helped them develop new skills in designing and modifying renewable energy competitive procurements. View the presentations

  • Workshop

    India: System-Friendly Renewable Energy Procurement

    India explores procurement design solutions that help minimize both generation and system integration costs. Solutions include time-based incentives and penalties, aggregators or virtual hybrids, physical hybrids, and locational signals. View the presentation

  • Workshop

    Tanzania: Competitive Procurement

    Tanzania examines factors influencing auction prices worldwide, auction design, and bankable power purchase agreements, as well as how to use government support when addressing barriers to financing renewable energy investments. View the presentations

  • Workshop

    Senegal: Analyzing Competitive Bids for Power Generation

    Senegal explores relevant technical and financial requirements for in-house competitive bidding processes. View the presentations

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Scaling Up Renewable Energy (SURE)

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GLOBAL, 2017–ONGOING – Through the SURE program, USAID helps partner countries power economies, meet international climate commitments, and strengthen energy security via private investment in, and competitive procurement of, clean electricity.