- The CIREG project helped to develop capacity in addressing the impacts of climate change in theWest African region.
- The project helped policymakers and experts to understand different electricity generation development scenarios.
Dr Moumini Savadogo, the Executive Director, West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), has praised global partners for their support in implementing the Climate Information for Integrated Renewable Electricity Generation (CIREG) Project.
“I want to thank all the global partners for the intense impact made in the lives of communities in West Africa through this project. I am glad to announce that the CIREG project has installed three demonstrators of renewable electricity generation to communities”, Savadogo stated. The demonstration projects include an off-grid solar PV power plant providing power to 120 households across the region.
The CIREG project also included practical training sessions for West African stakeholders, including; academic and non-academics, public and private institutions, and research and development agencies of water and energy sectors of Burkina, Ghana, Niger and Togo.
Savadogo also noted that the tools developed over the course of the project would allow policymakers and experts to understand the consequences and trade-offs of electricity generation development scenarios, including; the examination of the performance of existing and planned national capacity for renewable electricity generation and the National Renewable Energy Action Plan, the climate-smart scenario which examined the integrated potential of hydropower.
The CIREG Project was run in partnership with WASCAL, and its consortium members with co-funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, funders FORMAS, Innovations Fonden and Belgian Science Policy Office, IFD, and the European Union Union’s Horizon2020 Framework Programme.