The Microgrid Academy (MGA) is a vocational capacity-building platform based in Nairobi that aims at creating a skilled and conscious workforce to deploy decentralized renewable energy solutions in Kenya and the East-Africa region, thus enhancing access to energy in rural communities while fostering local enterprise and job creation.

This positively impacts health and education, female empowerment, environmental protection and climate change mitigation, as well as reliable water and food production, as highlighted by the framework of the UN SDGs.

The MGA was launched in January 2018 and has the goal to train 300-400 people per year among communities' technicians, project managers, developers, engineers and academic students.

Speaker

Andrea Micangeli Adjunct Professor State University of New York and Sapienza University of Rome

Mr. Andrea Micangeli is Adjunct Professor at State University of New York and Sapienza University of Rome, and scientific coordinator of the 13 sessions of the "Micro-Grid Academy" (MGA) of RES4Africa Foundation with more than 600 students. Prof. Micangeli has been involved for 30 years in renewable energy system activities in rural projects and data analysis and development of more than 80 microgrids, studied with his colleagues from SUNY, MIT, Columbia, Strathmore, and other universities in East Africa. He is the European Director for the Grand Challenges Scholars Program (National Academy of Engineering - US). He is the author of more than 100 publications fully dedicated to renewable energies and microgrids for rural development.