DAY ONE 8 June: Enlit Africa Digital Event Agenda

Enlit Africa digital event kicks off with a Siemens sponsored keynote address that addressed this year’s content theme, the 5Ds of the energy transition. Day one will be all about the strategic and financial strategies Africa needs to use to make the energy transition a reality for all.

Sessions throughout the three-day Enlit Africa digital event will touch on all, one or a combination of the 5Ds identified as key to Africa’s transition to green, sustainable energy systems.

Decarbonisation, digitalisation, democratisation, deregulation and decentralisation and how these strategies affect all who work in the energy sector will be unpacked, discussed and debated across all sessions.

A panel discussion featuring speakers from the International Energy Agency, the Association of Power Utilities of Africa and Siemens will delve specifically into Tackling the 5Ds of the energy transition – a global initiative… with a local flavour.

The discussion on Accelerating South Africa’s energy transition with gas power and renewables will delve into the country-specific, nitty-gritty of what it will take to transition away from fossil fuels. GE will launch their gas power whitepaper during this session, highlighting how the strategic deployment of gas power and renewables is critical to creating sustainable energy access at the same time as reducing carbon emissions. The whitepaper also discusses the role gas can play in South Africa’s coal plant repurposing programme.

All players in the energy field, from utility to power developer will tell you the financing of any project is key to getting it started, never mind bringing it to fruition. To that end Financing the Africa energy transition will be unpacked in a panel discussion featuring speakers from the World Bank, Shell Foundation and Eskom, among others.

Keep an eye out for an interview about Burundi’s first successful solar IPP project as well as the discussion on the role of biogas for commercial operations.

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Engineering consultancy ESB International will bring to bear some of the strategic lessons they have learned in their home base of Ireland in a session on Preparing your utility transformation roadmap, which will be of use to utilities and energy planners in governments throughout Africa.

At the same time the training session, Design Principles of Utility-Connected PV systems will look at the technical side of concepts of good design and how they are applied in practice when utilities deal with the largest and fastest-growing market sector in power today.

Connect. Engage. Evolve.

Enlit Africa, formerly African Utility Week and POWERGEN Africa, invites you to learn, connect and engage with industry leaders and Africa’s power and energy community across our three-day, not-to-be-missed digital event on 8 – 10 June 2021. Register for your front-row seat to highly topical, free CPD accredited webinars, roundtables, tech showcases and the world’s leading suppliers presenting their latest solutions and so much more.