Date: 8 - 10 December 2020
Location: Virtual
Description: The Africa Energy Market Place (AEMP) is an energy investment delivery platform that is designed to promote investment in the energy sector by using a tri-partite model bringing together Governments of Regional Member Countries (RMC), the private sector, and development partners. By converging and aligning the actions of these stakeholders, the AEMP initiates dialogue that advances strategic projects for countries, accelerates their priority energy reforms, and catalyzes investments.
Two rounds (editions) of the AEMP have been organized since its inception in 2018 with this year’s being the third. Some notable achievements of the previous editions include (i) onboarding of 12 countries; (ii) drafting and agreement on 11 National Action Plans in the presence of 9 Ministers of Energy and Finance; (iii) screening and review of over 290 projects; and (iv) establishment of a wide network with over 900 active energy leaders and investors.
This year’s edition will focus on the Desert to Power (DtP) initiative in the Sahel G5 countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. The Sahel region has some of the highest solar potentially globally, yet the lack of available, affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy remains a major impediment to the social and economic transformation of the region. Consequently, Desert to Power (DtP) was developed with the bold ambition to light up and power the Sahel region by building electricity generation capacity of 10 GW through photovoltaic (PV) solar systems via public, private, grid and off-grid projects by 2030.
