the CSU Energy Institute visit the Center. they spoke with the Director of the African Center of Excellence for Energy and Sustainable Development while visiting the microgrid lab at the University of Rwanda.They are working to develop the research capabilities of their lab - modeling thier lab at the Powerhouse Energy Campus - in an effort to help the country of Rwanda fully electrify by 2024.

The 10th IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference 2018 (APPEEC) was held at Hilton, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, MALAYSIAfrom 7-10 October 2018. The aim of the conference was to provide a premier platform for electrical engineers and researchers to present their worksand to share experiences and ideas in power and energy engineering with experts and scholars from around the world. APPEEC started in Wuhan,China, in 2009 and from that time became an annual power engineering conference organized in Asia-Pacific Region.

The International Conference on Advances in Big Data, Computing and Data Communication Systems (icABCD 2018) is aimed to be an annual conference for researchers, academicians and industry persons in the field of Computer Science, Information Systems & Communication Technologies, Engineering and related fields. IcABCD 2018 was organized in Durban, South Africa with support from the Society of Information Technologists and Entrepreneurs (Mauritius) and IEEE South Africa Section on 6-7 August 2018.

A delegation from the World Bank conducted a half-day visit to the university of Rwanda’s centres of excellence to assess the achievements experiences and success stories. The Vice Chancellor Prof Cotton officially opened the meeting.

Italian Interuniversity Centre of Research on Sustainable Development (CIRPS) has strengthen a partnership with ACE-ESD on a joint technical assistance for the development of 2 photovoltaic-hybrid mini-grids in Rwanda.

The partnership with CSU Energy institute has brought Aphrodis Nduwamungu, a research laboratory engineer, and Geoffrey Gasore, a post doctorate lecturer in electrical department from the ACEESD to Fort Collins and CSU’s Powerhouse Energy Campus. Now, Nduwamungu and Gasore has ended their month-long visit in which they have learn from researchers and in-house experts about how to build, deploy, test and troubleshoot microgrid systems.

Microgrids are of great interest to Rwanda because only about 40 percent of the country is electrified.