Current projects

ANSAP fosters market development of renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency in Africa. It supports African Alumni with study experience of green energy in Germany to create a peer and expert support community to develop project or businesses in green energy in their home countries.
It offers and alumni portal for peer communication and knowledge exchange. Scholarships for online trainings on the development and bankability of project and business plans in green energy. Expert mentorship to further analyze and develop projects and virtual conferences and pitching events to showcase and exchange project and business ideas.

COBENEFITS is a capacity-building programme targeting policy makers and other relevant actors in energy, climate and environmental policy in three countries: Turkey, South Africa and Mexico. The project strengthens governmental departments and agencies in charge of climate and energy issues in the target countries in their ability to advice their ministerial clients on the co-benefits of renewable power generation, to spur ambitious as well as effective NDC implementation.

The Federal Foreign Office, assisted by the Renewables Academy (RENAC) AG, is supporting the German missions abroad in communicating the German Energiewende internationally.

iRISE is part of the Indo-German Solar Partnership and supports the "Skilling India“ initiative targeting 500 million skilled workers to be placed in appropriate employment by 2022. The Renewables Academy (RENAC) AG has been awarded by GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) to successfully implement iRISE.

ETRELA is a capacity building program led by OLADE, supported by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and in cooperation with academia, policy makers and industry that will strengthen the educational sector in Latin America by increasing the number of qualified professionals along the value chain of renewable energy projects in the partner countries (Argentina, Peru and Uruguay). This will be achieved by implementing solar and wind technologies into existing university programs such as engineering, economics, law, and architecture. ETRELA aims to improve and update content, didactic methodology, and regional comparability of trainings which will enable the mobility of professionals throughout the Latin American region.

Targeting the general public and the media as well as policy makers, investors and industrialists, EurObserv’ER’s descriptive reports provide a comprehensive picture about the diffusion and growth of renewable energies in the European Union.

Im Rahmen der Exportinitiative Energie, welche vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi) gefördert wird, bietet die Renewables Academy (RENAC) AG zu ausgewählten Technologien und Zielländern verschiedene Veranstaltungen an.

Green Banking - Capacity Building on Green Energy and Climate Finance is a scholarship programme within the German International Climate Initiative (IKI). The Renewables Academy AG (RENAC) has been commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) to provide a three-year capacity building programme on renewable energy and energy efficiency finance in the partner countries Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, India and Indonesia.

The market and business development for solar power (photovoltaics) in Iraq, is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), co-funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH together with expertise of RENAC. The project is part of the “Private Sector Development and Employment Promotion (PSD) Project” and aims for market development in the solar sector. Therefore it provides numerous measurements in the fields of capacity building, private sector development, and market creation.

The objective of the three-year Solar Payback project: Promoting the use of Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP) across four partner countries – South Africa, India, Mexico and Brazil. As part of the German International Climate Initiative (IKI), it is raising awareness of the technical and economic potential of SHIP technologies by clear and transparent information on the costs and benefits of SHIP applications and by helping to build selected reference systems. Solar Payback also cooperates with financial institutions to develop models which will assist stakeholders and investors in securing access to financing.

TROPHI is a capacity building project that aims to accelerate the market development of rooftop photovoltaic systems in India. It targets five key stakeholders in the rooftop PV sector with tailored trainings and workshops all over the nation. Participants will be able to learn both technical and didactical skills from renowned international experts in the fields of installation, commissioning, inspection and grid-integration of grid-connected rooftop PV systems.