Katundu Imasiku, a student under the Center of Excellence in Energy or Sustainable Development, University of Rwanda published a manuscript paper titled: Policies Lost in Translation: Combating the Green House Gas Emission Merry-go-round for increased utilization of Renewable Energy Technologies at the 9th (IREC) International Renewable Energy Congress, March 20-22, 2018, Hammamet, Tunisia.

The Centre of Energy (ACE-ESD) has received a visit from Daniel Zimmerle Senior Research Associate from ENERGY INSTTUTE COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY and the purpose of the visit was:

Asia Conference on Energy and Environment Engineering (ACEEE 2018) which will provide a highly competitive forum for reporting the latest developments in the research and application of Energy and Environment Engineering.

The collaboration between the University of Pisa will focus on the topics of engineering for sustainable development and renewable energies; as such it will involve mainly:

the ACE-ESD with the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Coorpertation Organization (GEIDCO)  Organised a public Lectures on Friday 5^th/JAN/2018 at University of Rwanda (College of Science and Technology) Kist 2 building conference room with two topics:

• Market Design for Emission Trading Scheme and the Price Behavior

Presented by: Dr. Ya Wen

The University of Rwanda in collaboration with IEEE and ACE-ESD organized a 2 days’ short course on Photo-Voltaic Technology from 29^th to 30^th November at Kigali conference & Exhibition Village (KC&EV). The course was attended by African center of excellence (ACE-ESD and ACE-IoT) PhD students, same staff & student from University of Rwanda and other from different private companies. The main point to this course was to discuss on: