11h00 to 12h30 – The Great Room

East Africa Focus

Generation, transmission and distribution trends and challenges across the region, highlighted by African Energy Live Data and discussion involving a range of stakeholders. Including:

• the regional energy balance – under- or over- supply. The contrasting (and complementary) profiles of Kenya and Ethiopia;
• the Rift Valley’s experience developing its geothermal prospects;
• what next for off-grid PAYG systems in a region that has been the off-grid leader?
• prospects for cross-border trading and wider co-operation;
• political risk, including Tanzania’s nationalist policy and the impact of corruption on project development

12h30 Lunch