She joined the UN Foundation in 2010 from Good Energies, a global renewable energy private equity firm where she led its work both on commercial emerging markets transactions and as a founding board member of the Good Energies Foundation, on the application of renewable energy technologies for poverty alleviation in developing countries. She founded and leads UNFвЂ™s Energy Access Practitioner Network, a 900-strong global network catalyzing market-led solutions for energy access in developing countries. Richenda Van Leeuwen is Executive Director, Energy Access Initiative overseeing the UN Foundation's work on energy access and its engagement with the UNвЂ™s Sustainable Energy for All Initiative. Richenda Van Leeuwen, Executive Director, Energy and Climate, Energy Access Initiative team, UN Foundation He was the lead analyst and one of the creators of NRELвЂ™s International and Village Power Programs. His technical expertise is in utility modeling and the economic and financial analysis of renewable and micro-grid projects. This has included designing and teaching courses at the university level, project development of independent power projects, and consulting to industry and regulators.

He has been active in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency since 1978. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Lilienthal was the Senior Economist with the International Programs Office at NREL from 1990 - 2007. NREL has licensed HOMER Energy to be their sole worldwide commercialization licensee for distributing and enhancing the HOMER model. Since 1993, he has been the developer of the National Renewable Energy LaboratoryвЂ™s HOMER hybrid power optimization software, which has been used by over 85,000 energy practitioners in 193 countries. Peter Lilienthal is the President/CEO of HOMER Energy. ( webinar transcript) Panelists Peter Lilienthal, President/CEO, HOMER Energy

This webinar-offered by the Solutions Center in partnership with the United Nations Foundation and Homer Energy-explains these differences and describes the requirements of sustainable mini-grid electrification programs. Mini-grids have great potential for improving sustainable and affordable energy access, yet support for these new technologies requires a different set of policies from traditional electrification programs.

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