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AfricaHardball is an executive dialogue that brings together policy-makers, industry leaders and analysts to discuss the key political issues affecting the African energy industry in frank and open terms.
The next AfricaHardball roundtable wil be held on 29 June, prior to the start of EnergyNet Ltd’s annual Africa Energy Forum (AEF), in Basle. Read more
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Political risk perspectives for the African energy industry
Held prior to the start of EnergyNet Ltd’s annual Africa Energy Forum (AEF), AfricaHardball is a morning-long executive dialogue that brings together policy-makers, industry leaders and analysts to discuss the key political issues affecting the African energy industry in frank and open terms.
Held behind closed doors in a roundtable format, AfricaHardball is played out under the Chatham House Rule, whereby participants can openly discuss critical issues but must not be quoted by name.
AfricaHardball is an executive dialogue that brings together policy-makers, industry leaders and analysts to discuss the key political issues affecting the African energy industry in frank and open terms. The fifth annual AfricaHardball executive dialogue will be held on 29 June in Basle and lead into the 12th Africa Energy Forum.
Preparations are now being made for the Basle AfricaHardball roundtable. More information will be posted on this page shorty. For more information contact:
Key themes discussed at the 2009 AfricaHardball roundtable in Bordeaux:
• Trust across borders – Can the AU deliver significant economic and political advances? Is Nepad dead? Cross-border trading is a logical route for the electricity industry to follow, but there is the risk that as soon as brownouts signal supply shortfalls at home, interconnections will falter. Previous Hardballs have asked: is there sufficient trust between nations to make co-operation work?
• Is the finance there? – Before the credit crunch new forms of financing were becoming apparent across the continent, from hedge funds to Chinese resources-for-infrastructure deals. How has the financial landscape changed for energy planners?
• Personal politics – What evidence is there that African polities are moving away from highly personalised politics towards more transparent (if not predictable) systems?
•Tarification – How can we take the political heat out of this critical issue? How should the debate over tariffs best be articulated?
• Scenario building – AfricaHardball closed with a scenario-building exercise, trying to establish patterns to the ideas produced by the meeting.
Participants
Delegates attending AfricaHardball in Bordeaux included :
• KenGen managing director Edward Njoroge
• National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) chief executive Smunda Mokoena
•Symbion Power director Ambassador (ret) Joseph C Wilson
•Energy Regulation Board of Zambia acting executive director
Lukonde Mfula
•Kenya Power & Lighting Company Managing Director Joseph Njoroge
•Copperbelt Energy Corporation executive chairman Hanson Sindowe
• Senior representatives from the Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority of Tanzania (Ewura)
• Senior representatives from the Kenya's Energy Regulatory Commission
Plus representatives from companies including Alstom, Empower, GE, Insparo Asset Management, Contour Global and Frontier Market Energy & Carbon Fund.
Africa Energy Forum
Launched in 1999, The Africa Energy Forum (AEF) is Africa’s premier annual power and gas investment and business forum, bringing together senior government officials and private-sector executives to discuss opportunities in expanding public and private power.
All major sectors of the power and gas industry gather in June each year for three days of intensive networking. Of the 470 who attended in 2008, over 40% came from Africa, and of those almost 40% were from the public sector. Private power developers and equipment suppliers accounted for 30% of the total, while the finance sector, including investors and advisers, accounted for a further 15%. This concentration of businesses under one roof expands the opportunities for fruitful contacts, and the accompanying AEF Exhibition provides valuable corporate exposure. View the brochure.
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