GRMF East Africa calls for geothermal direct use project pitches

In a reminder on the call for Direct Use Project Pitches, the Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility also points to the Geothermal Direct Use Market Sounding Webinar on May 5, 2022.

• Day: May 5, 2022
• Time: 2 pm Eastern African Time (EAT)
• Host: African Union Commission

 The webinar aims to capture the current and future market situation for direct use projects in East Africa, to set up a new funding programme explicitly dedicated to direct use.

To illustrate the demand for such a funding programme, GRMF is asking for project pitches.

Everyone who is interested can submit descriptions of already completed projects, planned projects or project ideas.

To do so, a simple form can be downloaded from the GRMF website, filled and then sent to grmf@roedl.com until 21^st April 2022.

GRMF will review all project pitches and give selected projects the possibility to be presented during the webinar on 5^th of May 2022.

Download the GRMF Project Pitch Document here.

Now is the time to act for Geothermal Direct Use in East Africa.

If you haven’t already, you can register for the webinar here: www.grmf-eastafrica.org/direct-use

Here the Agenda for the event (2:00 pm to 4:25 pm Eastern African Time)

• Welcoming remarks // Statements: African Union Commission (AUC), International Geothermal Association (IGA) – Dr. Marit Brommer, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) – Dr. Sören Dengg – Presented by AUC /  IGA / BMZ
• IRENA on Geothermal Direct Use (participation requested) – Presented by IRENA
• Presentation on Geothermal Direct Use / Applications – Rödl & Partner
• Technical Aspects of Geothermal Direct Use – Presented by Mannvit
• Best Practice – Oserian Geothermal – Presented by Oserian
• Presentation on GDC Menengai Direct Use Demonstration Facility – Presented by GDC
• Best Practice – GIZ GEO II – Agricultural Direct Use Application – Presented by GIZ
• Best Practice – GIZ GEO II – Industrial Direct Use Application – Presented by GIZ
• Presentation of Project Pitches – by Participants
• Closing Remarks & Outlook – by AUC

For more information on the GRMF, please visit www.grmf-eastafrica.org.