AHK Sri Lanka host webinar on ‘Energy Efficiency, Self-sufficiency’ in Industry Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
The Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in Sri Lanka (AHK Sri Lanka) organized a conference on Energy Efficiency and Self-sufficiency in Industry to promote opportunities of cooperation in the field of energy efficient solutions.
About 200 representatives of business, politics and media from Sri Lanka and Germany joined the virtual event which was organized within the frame of the German “Energy Solutions made in Germany” Initiative of the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy.
The conference was opened by State Minister of Solar, Wind and Hydro Power Generation Projects Development Duminda Dissanayake, the German Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives Holger Seubert and Chief Delegate of German Industry and Commerce in Sri Lanka Andreas Hergenröther.
Sri Lanka is looking to save 1,290 Gigawatts of electricity by implanting a series of new energy saving technology solutions by 2025, said Chairman, Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority (SLSEA) Ranjith Sepala yesterday. He was making the keynote address at a conference hosted by AHK Trade Mission to Sri Lanka comprising eight German companies who have expressed strong interest in the Sri Lankan energy market.Sri Lanka annually spends around.
by Sanath Nanayakkare
As the beginning of the end of fossil fuels has definitely started across the world and Sri Lanka has the renewable energy resource potential backed with the government’s policy framework to enhance the share of national grid renewables, the country stands a very good chance of attracting foreign investments and partnerships for renewable energy projects, the German Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives Holger Seubert said addressing a virtual meeting yesterday.
” Sri Lanka has an ambitious plan of 100% electricity generation through renewable energy by 2050 as an important signal for accelerated climate action and it has ideal conditions to achieve it. As Germany has already left its niche in Renewables, it can partner with Sri Lanka in this exercise on a long term fruitful cooperation,” the German Ambassador said.
Sri Lankan exporters are getting crucial support from key institutions in Europe to successfully meet with the standards the European importers require when importing goods and services from Sri Lanka.
These sustainability standards are partially politically driven, but they are also more and more consumer and industry driven. Besides, in line with the existing official legally binding standards, European importers require more and more consumer and industry driven standards such as Fair trade, BSCI, SA8000 and IFS.
The Delegation of German Industry and Commerce (AHK Sri Lanka) and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) co-organized their second conference on “Sustainable Supply Chains as drivers of global competitiveness”, in Colombo on Wednesday.