Community of stakeholders for modernizing the energy industry

SUPPORTING REGIONAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND ENERGY TRANSITIONS

Format: Online Language: French

OVERALL THEME/BACKGROUND

Access to energy remains a major challenge in Africa, especially due to demographic pressure and the difficulties of public companies to provide a continuous quality service throughout the country. Energy is an essential ingredient for the development of regions and its availability is often critical for implementing national and local social and economic development strategies. Funding is lacking, public companies often underperform, and do not have the leeway to cover the extra costs of providing energy in the areas furthest from the national grid. Many companies with new energy access solutions are seeking donor support because local or international commercial banks are not willing to provide debt funding to these companies whose projects and business models are still deemed too risky. Therefore, an initiative has been launched, funded by the European Union and implemented by Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Digital Energy Facility program, to support the digitalization and modernization of the energy sector in Africa.

THE PLATFORM'S OBJECTIVES

AFD Campus is spearheading the creation and coordination of a community of energy industry stakeholders through a platform. This platform should make it possible to: Stimulate innovation by offering training courses with acculturating content and by providing information on the latest developments in the sector. Support stakeholders by providing financial support for initiatives through calls for projects and by facilitating the setting up of projects through relevant tools. Bring together an ecosystem developing connections between stakeholders to create synergies between them.

ACTIVITIES

Events and training courses: seminars - webinars - round tables - speed dating - hackathons. The platform covers the entire ecosystem of stakeholders, from developing and developed countries, who have a mutual interest in modernizing the energy industry in Africa.

The platform should bring together 3 types of stakeholders, public energy utilities and startups, or technology providers (I), partners (II) and contributors and financiers.

Under construction

PARTNERSHIP

European Union