CLEAN and Power for All hosted a webinar on COVID-19's impact on the India sector. Look out for an upcoming fireside chat hosted by ET EnergyWorld with Intenational Solar Agency (ISA) head Upendra Tripahty and our CEO Kristina Skierka on the solar sector's future. Also, our team went high/low fashion to liven things up on our pandemic team call. Can you say diva? https://www.powerforall.org/news-media/campaign-updates/campaign-update-april-2020
Our CEO, Kristina Skierka, reflects on seven years of Power for All's ending energy poverty campaign with Ifeoma Malo, the co-founder and CEO of Clean Technology Hub, which focuses on rural electrification and renewable energy. https://www.powerforall.org/news-media/interviews/interview-ifeoma-malo-power-alls-seventh-anniversary
Power for All was launched 5 years ago today on May 21, 2015. It's a time to celebrate, but also a time to reflect. We face great disruption in the world, compounded by an unprecedented health crisis. Our CEO Kristina Skierka writes about Power for All's incredible journey, our successes and struggles, and explores the road ahead for the decentralized renewable energy sector. https://www.powerforall.org/insights/energy-policy/repurposing-covid-19-response-sdg-7
Power for All was well represented at the Sustainable Energy for All Forum in Kigali, Rwanda. The team, led by our CEO Kristina Skierka, also co-chaired two-panel discussions at the event, ‘Transitioning to the Grid of the Future’ and ‘Powering Jobs: Building a Workforce to Meet the SGD 7 Challenge’. The Powering Jobs campaign kicked off its first steering committee meeting in Ethiopia and held its second in Uganda. We also have the initial findings from our health survey from Jharkhand State in India. Read on for these and other updates from our campaigns. https://www.powerforall.org/news-media/campaign-updates/campaign-update-may-2022
In this episode of the Power for All podcast, Anand Prabhu Pathanjali speaks with Kristina Skierka, founder and CEO of Power for All about the campaign’s six-year journey on the road to ending energy poverty. https://www.powerforall.org/news-media/interviews/road-ending-energy-poverty-six-years-of-power-all
In this Power for All podcast, Jessica Stephens, the CEO of Africa Minigrid Developers Association (AMDA), in conversation with Power for All CEO Kristina Skierka, reflects on the recently released ‘Benchmarking Africa’s Minigrids report.’ https://www.powerforall.org/news-media/interviews/interview-jessica-stephens-amda-benchmarking-report
In this episode of the Power for All podcast, Kristina Skierka, Founder and CEO of Power for All speaks with Florence Nsubuga, Chief Operating Officer of Umeme Ltd., Uganda’s largest distribution utility. Florence is also a team leader of the project Girls for Girls, a forum that empowers women between the ages of 15 and 35 years to become leaders in their own communities. The conversation aims to highlight the work of Umeme along with the opportunity of working together to end energy poverty and achieve universal energy access by 2030. https://www.powerforall.org/news-media/interviews/interview-florence-nsubuga-leading-utility-of-future-uganda
Join Kristina Skierka, Founder and CEO of Power for All at the 15th edition of the Microgrid Global Innovation Forum, 13-15 September 2022 in London. Kristina will give a talk titled "Designing the Grid of the Future to End Energy Poverty Together and Faster: Lessons from the Twaake project in Uganda." https://www.powerforall.org/news-media/events/microgrid-global-innovation-forum
In this episode of the Power for All podcast, Kristina Skierka, Founder and CEO of Power for All speaks with Aaron Leopold, Chief Executive Officer of EnerGrow, a Uganda based asset financing company that provides its customers with productive energy assets and training to rural and peri-urban businesses. https://www.powerforall.org/news-media/interviews/interview-aaron-leopold-utilities-20-twaake-project
On the 54th Earth Day, Kristina Skierka of Power for All highlighted the distributed renewable energy sector's crucial role in achieving SDG 7 by improving energy access, driving economic growth, and overcoming systemic barriers to foster sustainability and equity globally. https://www.powerforall.org/news-media/articles/broader-call-earth-day-beyond-battling-plastics-advocating-clean-energy-and-equity