Date: 5 May 2022
Location: Dakar, Senegal
Description: Join Renpower Senegal 2022 – a powerful business development platform, enabling you to build brand awareness, forge new relationships, promote your technology, create new leads or source future investment.
Access to reliable, affordable and clean energy is crucial for the economic and social development in Senegal. The country’s electrification rate is about 69%, reflecting 93% in urban areas and nearly 50% in rural areas. The opportunity for private investment in solar, wind and biomass alongside government initiatives to prioritize green schemes has started to drive the way forward across the country. The government is now concentrating its efforts in remote and rural areas, relying on renewable energy providers. Achieving universal access to electricity will require decentralized solutions and more investments in diverse generation sources and distribution channels, including both grid connections and micro-grids.
The Agence Sénégalaise d’Electrification Rurale unlocks several rural electrification projects for medium-voltage grid extension, mini-grids and solar home systems. Promoting renewables and increasing the energy mix using natural gas (gas to power strategy), boosting energy efficiency and the development of off-grid rural electrification will ensure a smooth transition to full clean power in the country. New technologies and financing will be key drivers in that process.
