• Regulation can facilitate investment in cross-border transmission interconnections, increase
  and improve the efficiency of electricity trading and enable the African Single Electricity
  Market (AfSEM).
• Regulation can turn bankrupt distribution companies – or the distribution segment within
  vertically integrated utilities – into financially viable companies with satisfactory performance.
• Regulation can help kick-start the necessary mass deployment of mini-grids and off-grid solar
  systems by ensuring that business models are sustainable and scalable.
• Regulation can introduce measures to improve efficiency across the energy sector, both on
  the supply and demand side.
• Regulation can increase the appetite for investment in renewable generation in Africa – both
  utility-scale and off-grid solutions – by streamlining permitting and contracting processes and
  removing existing regulatory barriers.
• Regulation can guide the deployment of socially beneficial distributed energy resources
  embedded in the main grid that meet the interests of individual owners – better reliability,
  lower costs, independence – while also being socially beneficial.

Panellists

Moderator of the panel: Prof Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga:  Interim Director, African School of Regulation

• Mamadou Biteye, Executive Secretary, African Capacity Building Foundation.
• Hon. Herbert Krapa, Republic of Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Energy.
• Ije Ikoku Okeke, Managing Director of Global South Program, Rocky Mountain Institute.
• Gillian-Alexandre Huart, CEO, Engie Energy Access.
• Rashid Abdallah, Executive Secretary, Africa Energy Commission, AFREC.
• Lily Odarno, Director of CATF’s Energy and Climate Innovation Program.
• Naomi Wagura, Director of Country Programs, Global Alliance for the People and the Planet (GEAPP).