AIX: Power & Renewables – Nii Darko Asante, Ghana Energy Commission

Nii Darko Asante, Director, Technical Regulation, Ghana Energy Commission is participating in the Utility and regulator perspectives session on day one of the Africa Investment Exchange: Power & Renewables meeting at RSA House, London on 13-14 November. Read his biog … Read More

Community Engagement focus at AIX Nairobi

  Kemoli Sagala, Governance and Strategy Advisor to the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Energy; Celestine Kaseve, Senior Socio-Economist, KETRACO; and Andrew Owuor, Environment Social & Governance, (ESG) Manager, Kipeto Energy have joined the Community Engagement Strategy panel at the AIX Nairobi meeting. … Read More

Focus on East Africa’s IPP options at AIX: Nairobi

The IPP Drivers session at AIX Nairobi will invite power developers to give a status update on their projects and key issues facing them as a starting point for the discussion on 3 October. View the agenda for this year’s Africa … Read More

Energy storage focus at AIX: Nairobi

We are delighted to announce that Senior Energy Specialist at DNV GL, Gabriel Kroes will kick-off the storage discussion at next month’s AIX Nairobi meeting and focus on where storage is heading in the next 20 years. Other panellists in … Read More

AIX: Nairobi updated agenda

The UK Department for International Trade has confirmed to host the pre-conference reception on 1 October at this year’s Africa Investment Exchange (AIX) Nairobi power and renewables meeting (2-3 October). The updated agenda for the AIX Nairobi lists 37 confirmed panellists … Read More

Winch Energy sponsors AIX Power & Renewables

Winch Energy  are sponsors at the next Africa Investment Exchange (AIX) Power & Renewables meeting at RSA House, London on 13-14 November 2019. Winch Energy is a global energy group creating specialized and sustainable solutions for off-grid distributed power. We are … Read More

Cautious optimism as Angola brings in wide-ranging energy reforms

There is considerable investor interest in reforms being enacted across the energy industry in Angola, but more work is needed before serious projects emerge and there remains caution about the extent to which cronyism has been eliminated, writes Dan Marks … Read More

Pace of African power generation expansion slows in Q1 2019

  The first quarter of 2019 saw a net addition of 1,097MW of on-grid capacity in Africa, the lowest increase – calculated on an annualised basis – since 2011, according to figures produced by African Energy Live Data. Against this … Read More

Gridworks sponsors AIX Power & Renewables

Gridworks are sponsors at the next Africa Investment Exchange (AIX) Power & Renewables meeting at RSA House, London on 13-14 November 2019. Gridworks is a development and investment platform principally targeting equity investments in transmission, distribution and off-grid electricity in Africa. … Read More