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FAKHIGUI ASSANA Placide

FAKHIGUI ASSANA Placide

Mission 300 Fellow (Energy Advisor), posted to the government of Chad.

Placide FAKHIGUI ASSANA from Cameroon is an Engineer currently pursuing a Post-Master’s in Renewable Energy at Polytechnic School of Paris (MS ETRE, l’X/INPHB). Through the DAAD Scholarship, he completed a Master’s degree in Electrical & Energy Engineering at 2iE Institute in Burkina Faso and a Summer School in Climate Change Adaptation of TH Köln, Germany. He previously studied Industrial Maintenance in the Republic of Congo and is certified as a Biomass Energy Project Manager through a GIZ-supported program in Côte d’Ivoire.
With experience across West & Central Africa, he designed a PV-solar system under the BioStar project and contributed to subcontracting mining operations. His early career includes maintenance fleet management and industrial electrical operations. Currently, he is a Mission 300 Fellow of CoAction Global, deployed to the Government of Chad, where he supports the High Committee in delivering energy sector reforms and infrastructure projects under the M300 initiative led by the WBG and AfDB.

SIRF is delivered by the Renewable Energy Technology Training Institute (RETTI) with support from the WOCEWA (Women and Clean Energy in West Africa) small grant framework, a program of ECOWAS implemented by ECREEE.

This support strengthens SIRF’s mission to advance women-led clean energy enterprises and research-driven solar manufacturing capacity in West Africa.

SIRF forms part of a broader renewable energy capacity-building framework supported under the WOCEWA initiative. While SIRF delivers virtual research training across Africa, a separate Solar Panel Assembly Training program will provide hands-on solar assembly training to 20 Nigerian women in Lagos.

Selected practical insights from SIRF research may inform aspects of the demonstration assembly process. Both initiatives contribute to strengthening local solar manufacturing capacity.

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