11:00 to 12:00

Strengthening the grid and increasing access

• Strategies to strengthen the grid, finance the ‘last mile’ and reduce network losses.
• What mechanisms should be developed to integrate private sector thinking more effectively into public policy? What PPP structures and other solutions are there to transmission shortfalls?
• Tariffs that reflect cost of upgrading and building new transmission and distribution infrastructure.
• How should existing grid networks, grid extension, grid edge and fully off-grid coexist?
• How storage can help strengthen the grid.