The Africa Investment Exchange: Power & Renewables meeting will once again be held at RSA House, London, 14-15 November 2018. An initial agenda will be published in January. Themes will include:
- Technologies and disruptors changing the African energy landscape – how storage can help integrate renewables, meet peak demand and strengthen grids
- Distribution business models – financing the last mile and reducing network losses
- Grid bottleneck – how additional transmission or grid strengthening can be funded
- Break-out sessions – focusing on renewable energy auctions, geothermal development in East Africa, hydropower models
- Regional focus – identify key trends in energy finance policy and regulation across different African regions
- Unlocking domestic finance – strategies for catalyzing more local capital – both equity and debt
- Off-grid Investment Exchange – integrating centralised transmission and distribution with decentralised energy schemes
- African Energy Live Data 2018 – power generation trends and challenges
A write-up of the Africa Infrastructure Development Association (AfIDA) Workshop held on the sidelines of this year’s AIX: Power & Renewables meeting in November. The workshop explored a series of issues critical to the project development sector in Africa, including financing, standardisation and how the industry might work collectively to move things forward.
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