1. IRENA Sustainable Energy Marketplace Regional Consultative Workshop on RE Developments in the Pacific 11-13 November 2015

2. Virtual Market Place for Sustainable Energy Projects 2 To scale up investments with the objective to support: initiation, development and financing of sustainable energy projects By: 1.Improving the transparency of the market 2.Offering IRENA’s tools and databases for market players 3.Supporting projects at the development stage Currently in Southern and Eastern Africa, but covering all African countries, Latin America and Caribbean in November 2015

3. Sustainable Energy Marketplace 3 Marketplace Project Owner C Project Owner BProject Owner A Project 3 Project 2 Project 1 Project 6 Project 5 Project 4 Project N Project 8 Project 7 Private Equity Commercial Banks Utilities Industrials / IPP Public Finance ECAs Guarantee LoanMezzanine Equity Grant Service providers Technical Financing EPC, O&M Legal Governments Projects Expertise Enabling environment, facilitation Financing Enabling frameworks Investment opportunities Country level facilitation Other

4. Efficient Search Engine 4

5. Tools and Databases 5

6. Facilitation Process in the Marketplace 6 Pre-screening of projects Project Development Project assessments Project financing Renewable Energy Market Place Cooperation with existing project preparation and TA facilities Cooperation with investors

7. Key Milestones in 2015 7 JulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember Start of implementation of the IT solution Start of piloting phase Outreach start, road shows in Africa Pre-launch at SAIREC Official launch at COP21 Stakeholder engagement at workshops, side events, etc. Launch of Lat. Am and Caribbean platforms

8. Thank you! 8 www.irena.org/marketplace More information: Aleksi Lumijarvi:alumijarvi@irena.orgalumijarvi@irena.org Alberto Bernardini:abernardini@irena.orgabernardini@irena.org