11h00 - 11h30

Ryan Anderson, Head of Section Renewable Energy Advisory Services at Multiconsult will be sharing his insights on a recent report: "What role can Africa’s reservoir hydropower play in enabling variable renewables: The case of 900 MW of solar in Zambia.” at the first AIX Power & Renewables meeting on 22 September.

12h00 to 13h30 BST

Grid strategies

Examining key institutional themes for grid operations.

• Governance model: unbundling vs vertical integration
• Tariff structure: cost reflectiveness and funding models
• Privatisation: lessons learned from various experiences across the continent
• Grid upgrades: perspectives from the private sector, C&I customers and transmission operators
• Balancing the grid: how best to respond to new challenges and opportunities in maintaining grid stability

14h00 to 15h30 BST

Storage strategies

• Examining the solar-plus-storage model and opportunities for investment
• Recent tenders and best practices from around the world and African case studies
• Understanding the technologies, costs and applications for storage
• Who is financing storage? What are their conditions, restrictions and main concerns?

Satellite sessions

We plan to run several grid and storage focused roundtables in partnership with speakers and sponsors, including:

• Best practices in renewable energy sources integration
• What are the different peaking options?
• Energy management and peak shaving – including time- shift of renewables
• Synergies between storage, conventional power and emergency power solutions

11h00 GMT – 26 October

Tanzania Roundtable

Mark Gammons, Head of Business Development for Tanzania at Globeleq is hosting a pre-conference roundtable meeting focusing on Tanzania’s power industry.

• The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania is committed to driving Tanzania to a higher level of development and industrialisation, fuelled by growth in the power sector.
• The Government-championed 2,100 MW Nyerere Hydropower Project is well underway and many are interested to see how it progresses.
• The TANESCO renewables tenders, including the 2x100MW Large Wind Power projects and the 3x50MW Large Solar Power projects are poised to proceed with very low tariffs.
• With the election happening on 28 October those connected to the power sector are watching carefully to see what direction Tanzania will go in the next six months to set the path for the next five years.

12h00 to 13h30 GMT

East African perspective

• Impact of Covid-19
• Does East Africa have enough power?
• What future for thermal generation?
• Update for IPPs
• Outlook for competitive procurements

14h00 to 15h30 GMT

Strategies for regional integration

Satellite sessions

Access to fringe events (country focuses, workshops, interviews, speaker Q&As, and roundtables) co-hosted by our speakers and partners. Topics may include:

• Outlook for Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
• C&I and geothermal update

Presentation: "Long term reliability as a key solar plant investment strategy" given by Titus Koech, Technical Services – MEA at JinkoSolar

12h00 to 13h30 GMT

Solar investment strategies

14h00 to 15h30

Distribution models

Who is actually making distribution pay in Sub-Saharan Africa? And how?

Satellite sessions

Access to fringe events (country focuses, workshops, interviews, speaker Q&As, and roundtables) co-hosted by our speakers and partners.

Optimising investment and avoiding costly mistakes in small hydro: the case of 14 small hydro IPPs in Uganda

Both, technical and environmental issues will be presented in this session, which will also provide a unique opportunity to review a large renewable energy portfolio outside of South Africa.

12h00 to 13h30 GMT

Competitive tenders

Perspective on tendering and other forms of contract award. Are new models needed, or just refinements of the existing system?

13h30 Online networking

14h00 to 15h30

New approaches to financing IPPs

Satellite sessions