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And now I'd like to go ahead and provide brief introductions for today's panelists. First

up today is Rana Adib. Rana is the research coordinator at REN21 and has assisted with

the annual production of the REN21 Renewables Global Status Report. Today, Rana will provide

an overview of the key findings from the status report. Following Rana, we'll hear from Fabiani

Appavou. Fabiani is a consultant at REN21 working on the development of a distributed

renewable energy data collection, namely in developing countries. He also supports the

work and research of REN21 in developing renewable energy and energy efficiency regional status

report for Africa.

Fabiani will be providing an overview of Renewables Global Status Reports' finding as they specifically

relate to distributed energy. And now with those introductions, I'd like to go ahead

and welcome our first speaker, Rana, to the webinar. Rana, whenever you're ready.

>> RANA ADIB: Hello everybody. I hope that you can see my screen and also hear my voice.

I'm very happy to have the opportunity to present the Renewables Global Status Report

with a particular focus on distributed renewable energy for energy access in developing countries

just because that's really a field which is rising a lot, but is also causing specific

challenges in the work we are conducting. So very quickly on REN21, REN21 is a multi-stakeholder

network dedicated to the rapid uptake of renewable energy worldwide. It's a network where we're,

different stakeholder groups are working together. It's NGOs and all society industry associations,

national governments, international organization, and science and academia.

I underlined the fact that it's multi-stakeholder network and also this network character because

all our activities are really done in a very collaborative approach. REN21 produces every

year the Renewables Global Status Report. The report, the 2015 edition was launched

in June at the Vienna Energy Firm and was the tenth edition. Again here, the way the

report is produced is really reflecting very much the structure of REN21 because it's a

joint effort of approximately 500 contributors, researchers, reviewers worldwide. We have

different features here focusing on a general overview about renewable energy and power

heating and cooling and transferred.

Then there is a section on market and industry trends on the specific renewable energy technologies,

on investment flow. This is a work undertaking in collaboration with UNEP Frankfurt School

and Bloomberg Energy Finance. So we are basically presenting a summary here. Obviously, a section

on policy landscape, and we have a specific faction on distributed renewable energy for

our energy access. Just because we think it's an area which is not that well known, there

is more and more information on energy access, but not the specific role of renewable energy

for in this field. And so that's the reason why we have a specific section for that. The

GSR 2015 for the first time featured a section on energy efficiency just to really underline

the need to think renewable energy and energy efficiency jointly. There is no way to reach

basically a sustainable energy for all goals on renewable energy shares without including

the demand side.

Every year, there is a changing feature. This year, it was on using renewables for climate

change adaptation in view of the COP in Paris. Next year, there will be a feature on community

energy. The report covers all renewable energy technologies, power heating and cooling and

transfer sector, and energy efficiency. We don't do any forecasts. There is no real analysis.

It's really about the status of renewable energy. Now let me take you through some,

before taking you through some numbers, I would also like to mention the fact that we

are, since a couple of years producing original renewable energy and energy efficiency status

reports because the field is getting so large that we really see that there is a need for

regional efforts on data collection on having regional strategies.

Last year, we launched November report on the ECOWAS region, and there is a couple of

upcoming reports, one on [inaudible] South African Development Community, one on UNECE,

and in early probably first quarter of 2016 on the East African Community. The data collected

in this GSR effort and in the regional reports are also presented on a web portal, which

allows for, facilitates basically the access to the information at the country level. Now

let me take you through some numbers. Generally, what we can say if we look at the decade of

renewables, the last decade on renewable evolution, renewables really surpassed all expectations.

There is a global and sole capacity production from all renewable technologies have increased

substantially, and basically, they have, yeah, the expectations have been surpassed and nobody,

yeah. Nobody really expected such a rise. This is very much linked to significant cost

reductions for most technologies. What we also see, however, that policy frameworks

play a very important and crucial role throughout the world. If we have a look at the renewable

energy in the world, what we can say is in 2013, and this is not a data of 2014 because

such care data is really not available in such a timely manner.

The share of renewables presented 19.1% of global final energy consumption. The share

of modern renewable energy increased up to 10.1%. What is important here is to keep in

mind that one of the objectives under SE4All is to also move basically the share from traditional

biomass towards modern bio-energy use, which really means an improvement of the energy

service in many developing countries in rural areas. We need to see these figures, again,

basically the rising energy demand. Global fine energy consumption has increased by about

1.5% annually in recent years, and this is primarily driven by developing countries,

which also mean that there is really a need to look more on the renewable energy play

in these countries.

The good news of this year that despite the rising energy use for the first time for decades,

the global carbon emissions associated with energy consumption, this is really a result

of renewable energy deployment and energy efficiency measures. Let's look at the champions.

In terms of investment in renewable power and fuels, and this is not including hydropower

larger than 50 megawatts. China, the US, Japan, the UK, and Germany were the leader.

What is very interesting here is if you look at the investment relative to annual GDP,

we will have a completely different type of countries appearing. It's [inaudible], Kenya,

Honduras, Jordan, and Uruguay. And this is really important to keep in mind because it

shows that these countries really can be force runners in renewable energy deployment. In

terms of total capacity, what is interesting again is that, I mean you have, again, the

big countries, China, the US, Brazil, Germany, and Canada in this case, including hydropower.

However, when we have this relative to per capita data, we will see a list of Denmark,

Germany, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, which are all European countries, and this can definitely

be explained by the fact that these countries have since a long time a very stable policy

framework providing good opportunities to develop renewables.

Now what we clearly see so I mentioned we're looking into the role of renewables in the

different sectors, in the power sector, renewables or, renewable energy development is really

the most dynamic in the power sector. Here renewables account for 27.7% of the global

power generation capacity and 22.8% of global electricity demand. What is very interesting

here is to see that this year, and it's for the first time, renewables made up to 59%

of the net additions to global power capacity and surpassed, basically, the additions in

the, the net additions in the coal, in the fossil fuel market, so that's really very

interesting news.

What is also interesting to keep in mind is when we are thinking about, and this is less

linked to distributed renewables, but still something important to keep in mind. When

we're thinking about the integration of a rival renewables, which is often mentioned

still as a major challenge on renewable energy during deployment. We see that when power,

for example, met approximately 40% of electricity demand in Denmark, 27% in Portugal, 21% in

Nicaragua. Solar PV capacity end of 2014 was enough to meet eight% of electricity demand

in Italy, 7.6 in Greece and 7 in Germany.

So there is, it is possible to have renewable energy at large [inaudible] here is also grid

connected ones. When we are looking now