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AIX: NairobiPower & Renewables Executive Briefing
2-3 October 2019, Fairmont the Norfolk, Kenya
AIX: Nairobi brings together project developers,suppliers of off-grid services, policy-makers,established and non-traditional investment sourcesand other actors in the industry.
The meeting is co-organised by Cross-borderInformation (CbI), and CbI’s African Energy, aconsultancy that has been involved at the heart of thedebate surrounding the development of the energysector in Africa for more than 20 years.
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AIX: Nairobi
Latest panellists are listed at: africa-investment-exchange.com/events/aix-nairobi-2019
Caroline Kimathi
Principal OfficerRenewable Energy
Energy & PetroleumRegulatory Authority,Kenya
David Muthike
Strategy & BusinessPerformance Director
KenGen
Eric Mwangi
Economic Advisor tothe Cabinet Secretary
Ministry of Energy,Kenya
Ameet Shah
Chairman and Director
Astonfield Solar
James Shoetan
East Africa BusinessDevelopment Manager
CrossBoundary Energy
Sam Slaughter
Chief Executive Officer
PowerGen RenewableEnergy
Erik Granskog
Vice President
Everstrong Capital
Hizkyas Dufera
Senior Advisor to theMinister
Ministry of WaterIrrigation and Energy,Ethiopia
Mathilde Bord Laurans
Head of Energy Unit
AFD
Sam Chasia
Investment Director
GuarantCo
Khilna Dodhia
Chief Executive Officer
Kenergy Renewables
Amyn Mussa
Partner
Anjarwalla & Khanna
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John Kimotho
Investment Manager
African InfrastructureInvestment Managers(AIIM)
Nemes Victor Massawe
Manager ElectricityTransmission andDistribution
EWURA, Tanzania
Roxana Ignat
Investment Officer
FMO
Latest panellists are listed at: africa-investment-exchange.com/events/aix-nairobi-2019
John Lentaigne
Acting Chief ExecutiveOfficer
African TradeInsurance Agency
Nikhath Zigmund
Business DevelopmentDirector
Actis
Anne Nyambane
Academy Mo IbrahimFellow
Chatham House
Wilfred Van den Bos
Head of Investments
responsAbilityRenewable EnergyHolding (rAREH)
Fatma Ben Abda
Distributed EnergySolutions SpecialistAfrican DevelopmentBank
Elsie Mbugua
Managing Director
Leadwood Energy
Clifford Aron
Principal
GreenMax CapitalGroup
John Mativo
Chief Planning, Planning& Development
KETRACO
Sandra Agola
Business DevelopmentAssociate
Globeleq
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Wednesday 2 October 2019
Tuesday 1 October 2019
18h00 to 20h00 Evening reception hosted by UKDepartment for International Trade
08h30 to 09h00 Registration & coffee
Fairmont the Norfolk Hotel, Nairobi
The state of the continental industry
Chair: Jon Marks, Chariman, CbI
Findings from the African Energy Live Dataplatform will provide unique insights intocontinental electricity supply industry trends.
• Delegates will receive a unique data pack.
A high-level panel including government officialsand senior industry players will then provide anupdate on electrification programmes andstrategies to increase energy access, as well as tostrengthen the grid, across the continent.
• Interactive discussion will then ask: what do administrations and regulators want from DFI initiatives and support schemes?
• What are the challenges and expectations of working with the private sector?
• Can investors make money and governments deliver cost-effective services at the same time?
• Are public utilities’ days numbered?
• Is transmission a vital backbone or a blockage in the system?
09h00 to 10h30
• It has become a cliché that money for projects is no longer a problem. Is this really the case?
• Distribution models: what are the options?
• What are the new investment opportunities resulting from Kenya’s Energy Act?
Hizkyas Dufera, Senior Advisor to the Minister,Ministry of Water Irrigation and Energy, Ethiopia
Eric Mwangi, Economic Advisor to the CabinetSecretary, Ministry of Energy, Kenya
Mathilde Bord Laurans, Head of Energy Unit, AFD
Izael Pereira Da Silva, Professor, StrathmoreUniversity
10h30 Coffee
East Africa energy mix and transmissionchallenges
Focusing on the region, this panel will be looking atinterconnections and the balance of generation(intermittent versus firm power supply) across theEast African Power Pool region – and neighbours.
• How to secure community engagement for power projects?
• Under- or over-supply in power: policy-makers and industry and financial leaders share their experiences.
• Developments in regional transmission.
• Baseload snapshot: focus on region’s key projects.
Nemes Victor Massawe, Manager ElectricityTransmission and Distribution, EWURA, Tanzania
John Mativo, Chief Planning, Planning &Development, KETRACO
David Muthike, Strategy & Business PerformanceDirector, KenGen
11h00 to 12h30
Wednesday 2 October
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Accelerating C&I
Focusing on the options available to customers inthe commercial and industrial space
• What is driving interest in C&I?
• Developments based on PPAs, lease and commercial loan structures.
• Managing portfolios – O&M, monitoring, data, reporting and risk.
• EPC and technology solutions.
Clifford Aron, Principal, GreenMax Capital Group
Geoffrey Ronoh, Director, Ofgen
Paras Patel, Investment Manager, EAV
Ameet Shah, Chairman and Director, AstonfieldSolar
James Shoetan, East Africa Business DevelopmentManager, CrossBoundary Energy
13h30 to 14h45
Storage snapshot
How will storage change the African energylandscape.
• Understanding the technologies, cost and application.
Giuseppe Artizzu, Executive Director, GlobalStrategy, ENGIEeps
Chalker Kansteiner, Founder, GridX Africa
14h45 to 15h30
12h30 Lunch sponsored by
The financing ecosystem
Showcasing Nairobi’s role as an important regionalhub for the energy industry. This session and thefollowing reception brings representatives fromlocal companies and finance together withinternational developers and investors to discuss:
• Nairobi’s attraction as a financial/business hub.
• Mobilising domestic finance.
• What it takes to attract lenders and investors to invest in the region’s electricity supply industry.
• Attracting international institutional investors, as well as impact investors, family offices and other investor classes.
• The role of commercial banks, DFIs and multilaterals.
Sam Chasia, Investment Director, GuarantCo
Erik Granskog, Vice President, Everstrong Capital
Elsie Mbugua, Managing Director, LeadwoodEnergy
Jean-Jacques Ngono, Managing Partner,Finergreen Africa
16h00 to 17h30
17h30 Reception at Fairmont the Norfolk
15h30 Coffee
Roxana Ignat, Investment Officer, FMO
Amyn Mussa, Partner, Anjarwalla & Khanna
Wilfred van den Bos, Head of Investments –Renewable Energy Equity Investments,responsAbility Renewable Energy Holding (rAREH)
Thursday 3 October
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Generation breakdown by fuel
IPP Drivers
Strategies to increase utility-scale generation
• What is the right IPP tariff?
• Guarantees and contract terms: what is fair?
• What risk mitigation is essential and what are the challenges?
• Examining the progress for FIT and auction mechanisms in the region.
• Is there any justification for feed-in-tariffs in grid connected projects?
• How to develop large-scale hydropower IPPs
• Business models for privately financed transmission
Sandra Agola, Business Development Associate,Globeleq
Khilna Dodhia, Chief Executive Officer, KenergyRenewables
Mark Dimmer, Infrastructure Africa, IFC
John Lentaigne, Acting Chief Executive Officer,African Trade Insurance Agency
09h00 to 11h00
08h30 to 09h00 Registration & coffee
Fairmont the Norfolk Hotel, Nairobi
11h00 Coffee
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Financing off-grid
Can off-grid solutions become commercially viableacross the continent?
• Off-grid regulatory challenges and transition within the industry.
• Headwinds facing solar home systems
• Stimulating domestic capital markets and improving access to local finance
• Developing an off-grid value chain: to achieve viability do investors have to drive a much wider range of businesses to stimulate growth?
• The role of mobile operators and large corporations in off-grid solar power.
• Scaling-up off-grid: how to attract larger ticket sizes and better terms?
Fatma Ben Abda, Principal Distributed EnergySolutions Specialist, African Development Bank
Clifford Aron, Principal, GreenMax Capital Group
Caroline Kimathi, Principal Officer RenewableEnergy, Energy & Petroleum Regulatory Authority
John Kimotho, Investment Manager, AIIM
Snehar Shah, Managing Director East Africa, AzuriTechnologies
Surabhi Visser, Head of Investments, SunFunder
13h30 to 15h00
Scaling mini-grids
Business models that takes mini-grid beyond itscurrent subsidised model.
• Challenges facing operators and customers
• Focusing on regulatory frameworks
• Productive use, concessions and tendering approaches.
Nemes Victor Massawe, Manager ElectricityTransmission and Distribution, EWURA, Tanzania
Anne Nyambane, Academy Mo Ibrahim FellowAssociate, Chatham House
Sam Slaughter, Chief Executive Officer, PowerGenRenewable Energy
Anne Sophie Rakoutz, Head of Private Equity,Proparco
Jonathan Shaw, Chief Executive Officer, Kivu GreenEnergy
11h30 to 12h30
15h00 Coffee and end of AIX
12h30 Lunch
Sponsor our meetings
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CbI Meetings pairs the extensive regional expertise and source networkof CbI’s African Energy with a seasoned events team experienced inproducing high-level investment forums and dialogues across theAfrican continent.
Through its power sector consultancy work and leading industrynewsletter, African Energy has been involved at the heart of the debatesurrounding the development of the energy sector in Africa for morethan 20 years. In 2017, we launched African Energy Live Data – a platformfeaturing detailed profiles of more than 5,500 generation projects andplants across the continent.
As a consultant, CbI has a unique perspective when it comes tounderstanding the themes and topics that provide the foundations for avibrant conference agenda and the mix of project stakeholders requiredto create a lively and engaging panel-led discussion.
We are focused on producing Africa Investment Exchange meetings thatcreate enduring dialogues between development finance institutionsand private sector investors including, private equity firms, venturecapitalists, family offices, foundations, institutional investors and impactinvestors.
Over the last six years, participants have used AIX to strengthen theirnetworks and to hold private meetings with new and already establishedpartners in convenient break-out rooms.
Contact Ricky Purnell for information on sponsorship opportunities – ricky@cbi-meetings.com
Sponsorship package
AIX: Nairobi sponsor Additional options (subject to availability)
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Session Sponsor
Prominent panel position speaking opportunity Lunch sponsor
1 speaker pass and 2 additional passes for sponsor’s staffor guests
Coffee break sponsor
Full-page colour ad in the meeting book Exhibition area
Corporate literature in meeting bag Seat drops
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A unique perspective
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A renowned landmark since opening its doors in1904, Fairmont The Norfolk, has welcomed royalty,statesmen and stars alike over the years. The hotel islocated in the heart of the Nairobi city and provides asophisticated, calm retreat from the vibrantdowntown district. Fairmont The Norfolk offers theoptimal base to explore the town, with easy access tomajor business districts.
The AIX: Nairobi power and renewables meeting isheld under the Chatham House Rule (participants arefree to use the information received, but neither theidentity nor the affiliation of the speaker, nor that ofany other participant, may be revealed), andstructured around panel-led sessions with anaudience limited to 100 participants to preserve thenetworking environment.
Participants will benefit from insights provided byCbI’s African Energy Live Data platform whichprovides unique insights into continental electricitysupply industry trends, project pipelines and demandgrowth projections.
Fairmont The Norfolk
Enabling power project development in Africa
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