11h15 to 12h45 – The Tavern Room

Grid-based and distributed strategies to increase access

A panel discussing strategies to strengthen the grid and private sector solutions to help overcome transmission shortfalls – including analysis of:

• major plans for national grids;
• IPT (independent power transmission) model – it has worked for Latin America, why not Africa? Panellists will discuss the World Bank’s recommended 10 steps needed to realise the potential of IPTs in Africa.
• cross-border interconnections – logical solutions dogged by mistrust?
• the need for tariffs (or equivalent cash-flow) that reflect the cost of upgrading and building new T&D infrastructure.

How should existing grid networks, grid extension, grid edge and fully off-grid coexist?

12h45 Lunch