Webinars CESC
We have offered dozens of training webinars on priority clean energy policy topics that policymakers in countries around the world can adapt for their own use. Many expert panelists and thousands of policymakers and others have participated in these unique training opportunities. Please consider joining us for one of our upcoming webinars. Or, browse the recorded webinars listed below.
Clean Energy Transition
Grid Integration
Power Sector Decarbonization Action Plan Series: European Union
30 November 2023
Clean Energy Transition
Grid Integration
Power Sector Decarbonization Action Plan Series: Australia
31 October 2023
Clean Energy Transition
Grid Integration
Power Sector Decarbonization Action Plan Series: Chile
17 October 2023
Clean Energy Transition
Grid Integration
Power Sector Decarbonization Action Plan Series: Introduction to the Action Plans
26 September 2023
Clean Energy Transition
Grid Integration
Integrated Approaches
Power System Flexibility
Renewable Energy
Reserves and Reliability
Resource Adequacy and Flexibility: Keeping the Lights On
24 May 2023
Grid Integration
Support Required for Local Off-grid Small and Medium Enterprises
A webinar highlighting the challenges of last-mile distribution and potential solutions for off-grid energy enterprises and companies to scale.
11 December 2018
Grid Integration
Renewable Energy
How Distribution Grids Can Integrate More Renewable Energy: Lessons Learned from the GRID4EU Project
A review of original approaches taken by—and lessons learned from—GRID4EU, a European project on integrating renewable energy
29 September 2015
Grid Integration
Renewable Energy
Ten Questions to Ask About Scaling On-grid Renewable Energy: Designing Stable Policy through Improved Stakeholder Engagement
Presentation of the Ten Questions to Ask About Scaling On-Grid Renewable Energy framework intended to help stakeholders engage with each other during this process, including lessons learned in Thailand
20 May 2014
Grid Integration
Renewable Energy
Mini-Grids Quality Assurance Framework
Presentation of a mini-grids QA framework designed to address the root challenges of providing quality power to remote consumers through financially viable mini-grids.
12 March 2014
Grid Integration
Renewable Energy
Measuring the "Smartness" of the Electricity Grid
Training for policymakers designing smart grid policies — defines what makes an electricity grid "smart" and proposes a method of measuring smartness
12 June 2012
Grid Integration
Renewable Energy
Smart Grid
Enhancing International Smart Grid Collaboration and Policymaking through the Smart Grid Maturity Model
Introduction of the SGMM, a tool intended to help utilities develop a smart grid vision and roadmap, refine that vision with stakeholders, and measure their progress
17 November 2011
Grid Integration
Expert Discussion on Policies and Market Structures to Drive Net-Zero Emissions Energy Systems
This webinar examines holistic approaches to designing and implementing policies and market structures that drive transitions to net-zero-emission energy systems.
7 July 2021
Energy Access
Grid Integration
Renewable Energy
Scaling Microgrid Deployment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Spotlight on the Role of Batteries
A webinar on scaling microgrid deployment in sub-Saharan Africa, including recent research from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on the role of batteries in microgrids and two new case studies.
26 September 2019
Grid Integration
Renewable Energy
Greening the Grid: Utility-Scale Battery Storage
An introduction to the key concepts for understanding the value of battery energy storage systems; a review of the services they can provide to the grid; and an exploration of when, where, why and how they can be deployed economically.
28 February 2019
Grid Integration
Implementing a Quality Assurance Framework for Microgrid Performance Monitoring in Africa: Examples, Lessons, and Opportunities
A review of electricity access in Africa and private investment in the microgrid sector and the role of the Quality Assurance Framework can play.
13 February 2019
Grid Integration
Grid Interconnection of Mini-Grids
A discussion of the challenges and possible options for mini-grids after the main grid arrives that will include country-specific case studies from Asia and Africa, as well as the potential requirements needed to achieve a relatively seamless interconnection.
18 July 2018
Grid Integration
Renewable Energy
Enabling Technologies: Key role in increasing renewable energy uptake?
A presentation of REN21’s recently released Renewable 2017 Global Status Report and a discussion of current developments in various energy technologies, infrastructure, markets and institutional frameworks that can advance and facilitate expanded deployment of renewable energy.
15 June 2017
Grid Integration
Renewable Energy
Solar Power
Distributed Solar on the Grid: Key Opportunities and Challenges
An overview of the USAID Distributed Generation Technical Assistance program along with context for the prospective role of distributed-generation photovoltaic technology in developing countries, followed by a discussion of the key economic and technical challenges and opportunities associated with distributed-generation photovoltaic systems.
17 November 2016