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Confirmed Speakers to date
Ministers and Officials
H.E Honourable Dr Teshome Tafesse, State Minister of Finance and Economic Cooperation, Ethiopia
H.E. Honourable Yonis Ali Guedi, Minister for Energy and Natural Resources, Djibouti
H.E. Honourable Cheick Taliby Sylla, Minister of Energy, Guinea
H.E. Honourable Irene Muloni, Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Uganda
H.E. Honourable Bachir Ismael Ouedraogo, Minister of Energy , Burkina Faso
H.E Honourable Fawzia Mohamed Sheikh, Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Somalia
H.E Honourable Fortune Chasi, Minister of Energy and Power Development, Zimbabwe
H.E. Honourable Cesar Augusto Hinestrosa Gomez, Vice Minister of Industry and Energy, Equatorial Guinea
Gouled Mohamed, Director General, Ministry of Energy & Natural Resources, Djibouti
Karim Camara, National Directorate of Energy, Ministry of Energy, Guinea
Multi-Laterals and DFI’s
Erik Bethel, Executive Director, World Bank
Judith Pryor, Director, US Exim Bank
C.D Glin, President, USADF
Daniele La Porta, Senior Mining Specialist, World Bank
Andrew Herscowitz, Coordinator, Power Africa
David Riposo, Finance and Implementation Manager, USTDA
Sasanka Thilakasiri, Energy Policy Lead, Climate Change and Energy, Oxfam
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Lucy Chege, Head of Energy, Environment, Technology, Development Bank of Southern Africa
Utilities
Dr. Abraham Belay Berhe, CEO, Ethiopian Electric Power
Joshua Choge, Chairman, Kenya Electricity Generating Company
Jonathan Amoako-Baah, CEO, GRIDCo, Ghana
John Kabia, Managing Director, EGTC, Sierra Leone
Aly Impija, CEO, Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), Mozambique
William Liabunya, CEO, EGENCO, Malawi
Yusuf Abubakar, Chairman, Kaduna Disco, Nigeria
Charles Momoh, Chairman, Eko Electricity Distribution Co mpany, Nigeria
Emmanuel Antwi-Darkwa, CEO, Volta River Authority, Ghana
Siméon Habonimana, Director General, REGIDESO, Burundi
Regulators
Dr Emmanuel Mannah, Director General, Sierra Leone Electricity and Water Regulatory Commission
Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, Chairman, EgyptERA
Private Sector
James Shepherd, CEO, Altaaqa Global
Paul Hinks, CEO, Symbion Power
Sakkie Leimecke, Head of Energy Finance, Ne dbank
Gonçalo Neves-Correia, Partner & CEO, ThirdWay Africa
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Mikhail Nikomarov, CEO, Bushveld Energy
Tom Trimble, Partner, Winston and Strawn LLP
Andrew Payne, Senior Product Manager, TESLA
Joseph Tato, Partner, Global Co-Chair Energy and Natural Resources, DLA Piper
Zeynep Harezi, Chief Commercial Officer, Karpowership
Vahid Fotuhi, Vice President , Zero Mass Water
Jake Cusack, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, CrossBoundary
Charles Eberly, Associate Principal, CrossBoundary
Hamid Al Zayani, Managing Director, Midal Cables
Gabriel Lorenzi, Sales Vice President, Gali leo Technologies
Kenneth Hansen, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
Noam Ayali , Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
David Baxter, Independent Public Private Partnership Expert
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Monday 24 February 2020
09:00-14:00 Power Africa Partners Meeting – By Invitation Only
12:00-14:00 Pre-Summit Registration and Networking Coffee – Open to All Delegates
High-level Opening Ceremony Powering Africa Summit (PAS) & Latin America Energy Forum (LAEF)
14:00-14:10 Welcome Address: Simon Gosling, Managing Director, EnergyNet
14:10-15:30 High Level Addresses Alfonso Blanco Bonilla, Executive Secretary, OLADE
15:30-16:00 Networking Coffee
16:00-18:15 Ministerial Session Distinguished Participants: H.E Honourable Dr Teshome Tafesse, State Minister of Finance of Economic Cooperation, Ethiopia H.E. Honourable Yonis Ali Guedi, Minister for Energy and Natural Resources, Djibouti H.E. Honourable Cheick Taliby Sylla, Minister of Energy, Guinea H.E. Honourable Irene Muloni, Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Uganda H.E. Honourable Bachir Ismael Ouedraogo, Minister of Energy, Burkina Faso H.E Honourable Fawzia Mohamed Sheikh, Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Somalia H.E Honourable Fortune Chasi, Minister of Energy and Power Development, Zimbabwe H.E. Honourable Cesar Augusto Hinestrosa Gomez, Vice Minister of Industry and Energy, Equatorial Guinea
18:15-18:25 Forum Sponsor Keynote Address James Shepherd, Chief Executive Officer, Altaaqa Global
17: 00 1:18:25-20:30
PAS & LAEF Pool Side Welcome Reception Hosted by Altaaqa Global
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Tuesday 25 February 2020
08:00-09:00 Summit Registration and Networking Coffee
09:00-09:15 Day One Welcome Address
09:15-09:30 High Level Opening Address
09:30-10:30
Responsible & Sustainable Resource Management: Mining and the Future of Energy
This session will bring together experts of the mining industry to delve into the importance of responsible and sustainable resource management for the future of
the energy sector, whilst analysing impact IPP energy projects will have on the mining sector.
Participants:
H.E. Honourable Cheick Taliby Sylla, Minister of Energy Guinea
Daniele La Porta, Senior Mining Specialist, World Bank
Mikhail Nikomarov, CEO, Bushveld Energy
Andrew Payne, Senior Product Manager, TESLA
10:30-11:15 Networking Interlude & Coffee
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Conference Room Techno Demo Stage
The Powering Africa Summit will look at how African leaders and US
organisations can collaborate to accelerate energy project development,
through access to finance and new technology.
The technology Demo Stage will showcase a large range of innovative tech
solutions and their application in Africa.
11:15-12:15 Empowering Communities: Women, Energy & Agriculture How women will play an intrinsic role in unlocking Africa’s booming agricultural energy sector
- What impact can electrification have on African agriculture? And how are women integral to this?
- How will integrating gender issues into energy projects increase and broaden the projects impact?
- How will this lead to increased benefits for all?
Beyond 4 Hours: The Future of Battery Energy Storage
Participants:
H.E. Honourable Irene Muloni, Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Uganda
Vahid Fotuhi, Vice President, Zero Mass Water
Sasanka Thilakasiri, Energy Policy Lead, Climate Change & Energy, Oxfam
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12:15-12:30 The Switch Over
RELEASE TECHNOLOGY
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12:30-13:30
Disrupting the Energy Business Model and Value Chain Through
Distributed Energy Innovations
How distributed energy is disrupting traditional methods and attracting
significant investment
- Rethinking traditional energy system with a more bottom-up
energy generation: micro-grid, Virtual Power Plant, Battery
Storage - when your customers become producers
- Pros and cons of facilitating energy production from your
customers?
- What are the incentives for developers and investors to be
involved in Distributed Energy Solutions?
- Regulations and policies to accelerate the adoption of such models
POWER PLANT AUTOMATION 12:30-13:00
Moderator:
Paul Hinks, CEO, Symbion Power
Participants:
David Riposo, Finance and Implementation Manager, USTDA
Jake Cusack, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, CrossBoundary
James Shepherd, CEO, Altaaqa Global
From the sun to your tap: breakthrough innovation in drinking water
13:30-14:30 Miami Power Lunch
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14:30-15:30
Reinforcing Grid Efficiency and Stability: A Prerequisite to Cross-border
Energy Trading
This session will explore the technologies and strategy adopted by
governments, utilities, and its importance as an enabler to cross border
energy trading.
- What technologies and strategies are being implemented to
support effective transmission and distribution?
- Digitalising the grid to detect problems and improve resilience of
your network against power cuts.
- Exploring the role of regional African Power Pool’s in laying
guidelines and accelerating wheeling agreements and making
projects more attractive and bankable
- Stressing the role of DFI in facilitating development of energy
routes, and creating market conditions for attracting investors
WIND TURBINES 14:30-15:00
Participants:
Dr Emmanuel Mannah, Director General, Sierra Leone Electricity
and Water Regulatory Commission.
Mr William Liabunya, CEO, EGENCO, Malawi
Jonathan Amoako-Baah, CEO, GRIDCo, Ghana
Paul Hinks, CEO, Symbion Power
Hamid Al Zayani, Managing Director, Midal Cables
Moderator:
Thomas Trimble, Partner, Winston and Strawn LLP
HYDROPOWER TURBINES 15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00 Networking Interlude & Coffee
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16:00-17:00
The Role and Future of Hydropower in Africa
Africa has the highest percentage of untapped technical hydropower
potential in the world, understanding the role Hydropower will have in
Africa’s future energy mix and how to facilitate this will be an important
factor in achieving universal energy access.
- What role will hydropower have in Africa’s future energy mix?
- Mitigating the natural generation risks associated with
Hydropower, and the role of regional power pools in doing so.
- Reducing the risk in the development of project.
- The role and relationship between the public & private sector to
promote the success of hydropower projects
SOLAR PANEL 16:00-16:30
Participants
Dr. Abraham Belay Berhe, CEO, Ethiopian Electric Power
Emmanuel Antwi-Darkwa, CEO, Volta River Authority, Ghana
Charles Eberly, Associate Principal, CrossBoundary
GENERATORS
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:10 Closing Remarks
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Showcasing the latest finance and technology innovations to achieve universal en ergy access in growing economies
Wednesday 26 February 2020
08:00-08:45 Registration and Networking Coffee
08:20-09:05 Breakfast Briefing: Battery Storage – Preparing for the Storage Boom
With an increasing number of renewable energy projects developing in the world, battery storage is expected to increase seven-fold over the next five years
to support the frequency and reliability of RE sources. The distinguished speakers in this closed doors session will engage and discuss with the audience the
current regulations, and how utilities and government can prepare for a storage boom on the continent.
- Cost of storage VS new energy generation project
- Outlining loan structure of storage - How to get your project funded and how to reach bankability of your storage project?
- Discussing the impact of introducing storage on existing PPA
- Examples of hybrid and storage projects throughout Africa and Latin America
Participants:
Joshua Choge, CEO, Kenya Electricity Generating Company
09:05-09:15 Day Two Welcome Address: Harry Gibson Programme Manager EnergyNet
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09:15-10:15 Guidelines to Government and Financial Institutions to Scale-up Renewable
Energy Projects
Analysing how governmental and financial institutions can create market
conditions for private investors to enter the market to invest in renewables
- Exploring lessons learnt from major Renewable Energy projects in
Africa: Morocco, South Africa and Senegal
- Developing and attractive, transparent and robust regulation
landscape to facilitate energy trading and plan for future cash-flow
- Increasing transparency on liquidity to identify investment ready
renewable energy projects
- Engaging with local financial institutions to access more affordable
investment and identifying on-lending companies to access
international funding
- Facilitating PPP and project finance to avoid sovereign guarantee
PAY AS YOU GO 09:15-09:45
Participants:
H.E Honourable Dr Teshome Tafesse, State Minister of Finance and
Economic Cooperation, Ethiopia
Lucy Chege, Head of Energy, Environment, Technology, Development
Bank of Southern Africa
Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, Chairman, EgyptERA
Kenneth Hansen, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
Moderator:
David Baxter, Independent PPP consultant
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
09:45-10:15
10:15-10:25 The Switch Over
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10:25-11:25 Gas to Power Perspectives in Africa - Lessons from Historical Discoveries This session will present case studies of gas route development in Africa to explore how to nurture knock-on effects on local economies
- How can DFIs and private sector support downstream effects of gas
route in Africa?
- What are the long term strategies to consider for countries
producers?
- From Mozambique, to Tanzania and Senegal, what are the best
lessons learnt to develop a gas economy?
SMART GRID MANAGEMENT 10:25-10:55
Participants:
H.E Honourable Fortune Chasi, Minister of Energy and Power Development, Zimbabwe
Aly Impija, CEO, Electricidade de Moçambique Zeynep Harezi, Chief Commercial Officer, Karpowership
Gabriel Lorenzi, Sales Vice President, Galileo Technologies Noam Ayali, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
FEASIBILITY STUDIES SOFTWARE 10:55-11:25
11:25-12:00 Networking Coffee
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12:00-13:30 Interactive Roundtable Sessions! This session focused on Finance and Access to Capital, will bring together public and private sector and facilitate knowledge
and experience sharing to find solutions to common challenges related to financing energy projects.
Each roundtable session lasts 45 minutes, and attendees will participate in two discussions.
Table 1: What is the future of Export credit?
Table 2: Bridging the gap between off-takers and technology providers: How can on-lending companies, insurers, or credit exports can help you getting
projects off the ground?
Table 3: How to innovate financially? From project finance to green bonds, what financial mechanism can you leverage to access financial closure?
Table 4: Road map of credit score rating: what are the key points to consider from public sector point of view to attract private investors?
Table 5: What are the alternative to sovereign guarantees?
Moderator: Gonçalo Neves-Correia, Partner & CEO, ThirdWay Africa
13:15 1 13:30-14:30 Closing Remarks & Miami Power Farewell Lunch
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