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Welcome Networking Reception Hosted by AKSA
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Boardroom 4Interactive Hosted Boardroom - Hosted by: Power Africa -
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Host of aef 2024 - Egypt
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Boardroom 3Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Breaking Down Barriers for Energy Transition in Mining
- Smart ways to incorporate cleaner energy solutions into operations, without compromising reliability
- What are project feasibility studies saying?
- Dealing with the challenges of PPA term limits
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Boardroom 1Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Africa’s Solar Future
- Which countries are looking to launch large scale solar projects in the next year and where are the partnership opportunities?
- How is emerging technology changing the landscape?
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Boardroom 2Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
The Growing Role of Africa's Gas within Today’s Geo-Political Context
- Where are the needs and where does gas fit in?
- How will local projects open up other investment opportunities?
- Plans to accelerate gas projects
- The role of gas for self-reliant energy security
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Boardroom 2Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
LNG – Africa’s Opportunity
- How will LNG projects and exports transform Africa’s economy in light of today’s geopolitical realignment of energy trade and the opening of new market opportunities?
- Building the LNG infrastructure – time is of the essence -what timelines need to be met to meet current demand?
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Boardroom 3Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Energy Capacity Needs for Africa’s Booming Mineral Mining Sector
- Designing a hybrid plant – balancing decarbonisation Vs energy security
- Maximising production through the right energy mix
- De–risking supply chain management
- Transition to all-electric mining
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Boardroom 4Interactive Hosted Boardroom - Hosted by: Sun Africa -
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Boardroom 3Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Project Preparation to Accelerate Wind Energy
- What hurdles are stopping wind from reaching its full potential?
- What regulation needs to be put in place to accelerate wind development on the continent?
- Powering Ports – is off-shore wind a viable option?
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Tanzania
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Namibia
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: South Africa
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Boardroom 3Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Financing Structures to Support Mining Decarbonisation
- Self-funding versus IPP models – advantages, disadvantages, risks and opportunities
- What capital is available?
- What are financiers looking for?
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Boardroom 1Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Maximising Grid Capacity: Integrating Solar, Wind & Storage
- Are system operators ready?
- Energy storage and generation optimisation – examples and lessons
- Where should storage sit – with generation or the grid?
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Boardroom 2Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Gas - Filling the Funding Gap
- Is financing opening up again?
- What are financiers looking for to justify a project as bankable?
- How long will development finance be available for gas to power and LNG?
- Will local finance, and other sources of funding fill the gap? If so is this a lost opportunity for global financiers?
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Boardroom 4Interactive Hosted Boardroom - Hosted by: African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) -
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight:
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Ghana
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Boardroom 1Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Developing Large Scale Hydro in Changing Climate Conditions
- What are trends in hydrology indicating?
- Bankability considerations
- Working with lengthy study and construction timelines.
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Boardroom 3Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Energy Projects - Benefiting Local Communities from Conception to Post Mine Life
- What are IPPs and mining companies doing to ensure the community benefit through all 3 phases - construction, operation and post mine life
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Boardroom 4Interactive Hosted Boardroom - Hosted by: Inspired Evolution -
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Zimbawe
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Boardroom 1Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Preparing for Africa’s United Voice at COP28
- Pragmatically what does an energy transition mean in an African context?
- What does Africa want out of COP28?
- What is a just balance between de-carbonisation and energy security?
- What would be the favourable outcomes for Africa?
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Boardroom 2Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Macroeconomics, Debt & Inflation – Managing the Risks
- Where are inflation rates heading?
- Are countries managing debt and, if so, how?
- How have current economic conditions directly impacted negotiated tariffs?
- Will deals need to be re-structured?
- Is the financial architecture fit for purpose? Will concessional financing need to step in?
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Boardroom 3Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule - In partnership with Dii Desert Energy
Hydrogen for Africa
- Developing hydrogen for local use
- Preparing local infrastructure
- Re purposing existing infrastructure
- How are industrial energy users looking to utilise hydrogen?
- Hydrogen – an opportunity to build local capacity
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Boardroom 4Interactive Hosted Boardroom - Hosted by: African Development Bank (AfDB)
Importance of Hydropower Modernisation for Africa
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Uganda
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Senegal
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Boardroom 4Interactive Hosted Boardroom - Hosted by: South Africa’s IPP Office -
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Boardroom 1Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Financing an African ‘Transition’
- How is the funding promised at COP27 being channelled?
- What progress has been made since COP27?
- Where are the funding gaps?
- Should gas be part of the transition funding?
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Boardroom 2Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Can DFIs, Insurers & IPPs Work Together to Fill the Government Guarantee Gap?
- How can developers and financiers make projects bankable in the absence of government guarantees?
- Filling the guarantee gap for standalone off-takers
- Diversifying off-taker risk
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Boardroom 3Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule - In partnership with Dii Desert Energy
Hydrogen for Export
- Africa’s opportunity in the global hydrogen economy
- What infrastructure is needed and which countries are in the best position to put develop hydrogen for export fast?
- Developing sustainable ports for hydrogen.
- Africa vs the Middle East: what lessons and technologies can be exchanged?
- Planning distribution Infrastructure – including sustainable ports
- Is Africa moving fast enough?
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Mauritania
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The Exhibition
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Boardroom 1Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Procurement Strategies & Renewable Energy Auctions
- Successful examples from around the world
- What changes has Africa seen in the past year?
- Corporate procurement programmes vs the standard utility procurement model
- How (cross-border) traders and aggregators can procure power
- Investment signals for renewables integration/system stability: flexibility, ancillary services, capacity
- Dealing with grid constraints in procurement programmes
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Boardroom 2Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Private Sector Financing of Domestic & Regional Transmission
- Successful models emerging for financing transmission in Africa
- Insight in to recent projects and lessons learnt
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Morocco
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Boardroom 3Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule - In partnership with Dii Desert Energy
Project Preparation & Bankability
- What does the hydrogen off-taker market need from producers, developers, technology providers and policymakers?
- Preparing projects for success
- Structuring contracts and securing bankable off-taker contracts
- Are financiers ready?
- Aligning regulation
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Boardroom 4Interactive Hosted Boardroom - Hosted by: ALN -
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Mozambique
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The Exhibition
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: The Senegal – Mauritania Partnership
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Boardroom 2Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Diversifying Off- Taker Risk
- How can IPP’s diversify risk by moving away from a single buyer model?
- Building a portfolio of off-takers
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Boardroom 3Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule - In partnership with Dii Desert Energy
Commercialisation of Hydrogen
- Creating a tradable and profitable market
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Boardroom 1Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Navigating the Carbon Markets
- How can Africa take advantage?
- How the global carbon market could unlock new financing opportunities for projects
- What does the carbon border adjustment mechanism mean for projects?
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Boardroom 4Interactive Hosted Boardroom - Hosted by: African Development Bank (AfDB)
Viability of PPPs in Regional Transmission Projects
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: The Kenya - Democratic Republic of the Congo Partnership
How the two countries are putting in place a strategy to trade energy and develop the mining sector
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The Exhibition
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The Exhibition
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Boardroom 1Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Building Regional Power Markets: Electricity Trade Between Countries
- Insight in to what could be transformative projects for the continent
- Are power pools and member countries ready to deliver projects?
- How will Tamane work – can the model be repeated/ adapted across other countries?
- What do financiers need in place to say yes?
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Boardroom 2Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
The Growing Role of Distributed Power
- What gaps can distributed energy fill?
- What has been the progress to date for South Africa’s 100MW no license liberalisation?
- Has wheeling been successful so far?
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Zambia
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Boardroom 3Interactive Hosted Boardroom - Hosted by: KEPSA
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight:
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The Exhibition
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Boardroom 3Interactive Hosted Boardroom - Hosted by: African Development Bank (AfDB)
Regulating the African Power Sector in a Rapidly Changing Environment with Emerging Technologies
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Boardroom 1Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight:
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Boardroom 2Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Growing Needs for Commercial & Industrial Power
- Commercial and industrial power is a fast growing market – where are the quick and most stable solutions?
- How can commercial and industrial power access the grid?
- What regulation is in development to support captive power?
- How are countries synchronising industrial and energy policies?
- What projects are coming to market in industrial zones and what energy projects are needed to help support development?
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight:
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