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The Exhibition
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The Exhibition
EnergyNet Welcome Remarks: Simon Gosling, MD, EnergyNet
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The Restaurant
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aef Forum Sponsor Welcome Remarks
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YES Theatre 2
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Boardroom 4Interactive Hosted Boardroom
Powering Potential: How will the Public and Private Sectors Together Chart a Course Toward Universal Energy Access?
- What will accelerate the transition to a low carbon energy future?
- What is the role of new and emerging cleantech?
- Is the future of energy decentralized or centralized?
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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?
- Mobilisation of private sector funding into the sector?
- Should gas be part of the transition funding?
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Host of aef 2024 - Arab Republic of 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 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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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Federal Republic of Nigeria
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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
Charting a Course for Equitable Energy Transitions
- What are effective strategies for developing meaningful energy transition plans?
- What can governments, donors and the private sector learn from energy transitions underway?
- What are effective strategies to mobilize investment at the community level?
- How can we address gender disparities so the energy transition benefits all genders equally?
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: United Republic of Tanzania
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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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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Republic of Namibia
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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: Republic of South Africa - Investment Opportunities within South Africa’s Changing Energy Landscape
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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 4Interactive Hosted Boardroom
Off taker Credit Enhancement: How Political Risk Insurance and Liquidity Instruments are Enabling the Financing of Power Projects in Africa
- What are the options available in the market?
- Case studies of some of the projects supported
- How do private insurers work alongside multilateral institutions?
- Do the existing instruments sufficiently address investor’s concerns?
- What are the key market trends (anything innovative)?
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Boardroom 2Balancing Gas in Africa’s Energy Transition
- Gas in Africa's power generation mix to accelerate renewable energy penetration
- How can investments in natural gas infrastructure take into account climate and environmental considerations, such as reducing methane leaks and promoting the use of low-carbon gas sources like biogas?
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Republic of Mozambique
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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 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
Impact Investment Strategies & Insights for an African Just Energy Transition
- Africa’s just energy transition and best practice impact strategies.
- Insights from inspired evolution: ESG and active impact investment management
- Impact insights and case studies.
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Boardroom 1Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Tackling Intermittency Issues in Africa Through Renewables
- How can wind, solar and hydrogen come together as a baseload?
- What is the right scale for these types of projects to make investments viable?
- How can the grid prepare to soak up these projects?
- Do we need batteries for these projects – what are the pros and cons?
- What is the procurement structure for these projects - single EPC or disaggregate structure?
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Republic of Zambia
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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
- The potential challenges of using hydropower with regard to climate change and other renewable options
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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
Hydropower Modernisation to Accelerate Africa’s Energy Transition
- Launch of the AfDB/SEFA/AHMPIHA report on hydropower modernisation opportunities in Africa
- With than half of the African hydroelectric capacity being older than 30 years – where are the opportunities for moderanisation?
- Selected projects and approval of the scale-up intended
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Republic of Uganda
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Republic of Senegal
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Boardroom 4Interactive Hosted Boardroom
South Africa’s IPP Procurement Programme – A Key Enabler Behind a Growing Private Sector Generation Foot Print
- Lessons from the IPP Procurement Programme to date.
- The Electricity Regulation Act Amendment Bill
- What is needed to improve active and meaningful local participation?
- The case for the continued prioritisation of economic and socioeconomic development in an energy crisis.
- Grid availability for new renewable projects in highly productive areas.
- Global energy and economic impacts on tariffs and supply chains.
- Overcoming challenges experienced by new entrants in project financing.
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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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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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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?
- Overcoming challenges of distribution networks.
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Country Spotlight: Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe - Building a Grid for Smaller Nations
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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: Kingdom of Morocco
Reducing Energy Dependency in Africa – A Moroccan Case Study
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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
Africa’s Green Transition. Where will the Power Come from?
• Will state off-takers step up to the plate or will they be overwhelmed by the age-old conundrum being, if the IPPs build the generation and the state off-taker guarantee the offtake, will the demand follow?
• Should African governments hedge their bets and allow private offtake and distribution or is this a poisoned chalice that will simply create two classes of consumers – those that have the financial muscle to bypass the state offtakes and those that will be forced to rely on poorly managed, insolvent state corporations? -
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Republic of Ghana
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Republic of Zimbabwe
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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
Hydrogen for Industry
- The use of hydrogen in industrial processes, including steel production, ammonia synthesis, and chemical manufacturing.
- Commercialising on the products of hydrogen.
- Creating a tradable and profitable market.
- Storage solutions for production, commercialisation and industrial use.
- Utilising water and green hydrogen production.
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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
Viability of PPPs in Regional Transmission Projects
- How DFIs, private sector and Governments can come together to accelerate regional transmission lines (TL)
- How do we mobilise $3 billion to install 7,500+ MW of transmission capacity thereby bringing priority transmission projects to financial close
- The use and success of the IPT model in improving Africa’s grid development
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Republic of Djibouti - Green Energy Hub
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The Wellness Bar
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Boardroom 1
- Predictability - what hampers the effective and consistent implementation of the tariff methodology and in particular tariff reviews?
- Economic Regulation - Tariff Setting & Financial Performance - Is there a transitional path or roll-out plan agreed between the utility and the regulator to attain cost reflective tariffs over a specified period? What are the pressing challenges? What can governments, development partners do to support the transition to cost reflective tariffs? What tariff policy and mechanisms have regulators adopted to make tariff affordable to low-income consumers, as well as the poor and vulnerable. (subsidy, tiered tariff structure, life-life block etc.)? How has this been balanced with the needs of private sector returns?
- Licensing Framework - What are the main challenges in developing and effectively implementing a strong licensing framework to potential licensees? Does the licensing framework include any additional incentives to encourage investors into specific market segments? Has it worked? What has been your response (as regulator) to address the common frustrations expressed by potential licensees?
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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?
- How is Kenya and Democratic Republic of the Congo putting in place a strategy to trade energy and develop the mining sector.
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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:
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Boardroom 3Interactive Hosted Boardroom
Knowledge Sharing - Africa Leading as a Solution Provider
- The importance of knowledge sharing in expanding access to electricity beyond the grid across Africa, specifically through the use of commercial and industrial, minigrids, and solar home systems (SHS).
- Potential for collaboration, partnerships and policy recommendations to drive the adoption and scale-up beyond the grid solutions.
- Opportunities for innovation and technology advancements, including the integration of smart-grid solutions, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of electricity access beyond the grid.
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Republic of Malawi
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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
- How can regulators support innovation in new technologies, while ensuring consumer protection?
- What hampers the implementation of the effective implementation of regulations that seek to enable the roll out of new technologies such as decentralized systems and smart meters?
- How can regulators use digitization to strengthen monitoring and reporting?
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Boardroom 1Interactive Boardroom, Chatham House Rule
Mobilising Africa’s Institutional Investors
- The game changer will be mobilising Africa’s institutional investors, such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds
- On the continent’s scale, Africa’s institutional investors represent more than $2 trillion of assets under management, and, today, only a tiny part of this budgetary envelope is allocated to infrastructure
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Plenary TheatrePanel Discussion
Country Spotlight: Democratic Republic of The Gambia
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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
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