- Partners in Progress: How the Mini Grid Sector Can Increase Speed and Lower Costs of Rural Electrification Aaron Leopold, Chief Executive Officer, Africa Minigrid Developers Association (AMDA)
- Kenya’s Renewable Energy Policy in Support of the Mini Grids – Latest updates Mungai Kihara, Chief Renewable Energy Officer, Kenya Ministry of Energy
- Strengthening Markets for Off Grid Solutions in Kenya Nickson Bukachi, Senior Renewable Energy Officer, Energy Regulatory Commission, Kenya
- GMG Facility Kenya; progress and lessons learned Gerard Hendriksen, Team Leader, GMG, IED
- Creating an Enabling Environment for a 10.000 Mini Grids Market Suleiman Babamanu, Senior Technical Project Manager, Nigeria Rural Electrification Agency
- Scaling up Finance for Mini Grids: Nigeria Ifechukwude (“Chude”) Uwajeh, Deputy Director, GreenMax Capital Group
- Off Grid Electricity Access Expansion Programs in Rwanda Uwera Rutagarama, Director Primary and Social Energies Development, Rwanda Energy Group, Rwanda
- Update on Sierra Leone Rural Renewable Energy Project (RREP) – Establishing the enabling environment for a private sector driven rural mini grid market Nick Gardner, Country Manager, UNOPS, Sierra Leone
- Off Grid Electricity Access Expansion Programs in Zambia Partie Kabango, Chief Engineer Power Generation and Distribution, Rural Electrification Authority, Zambia
- The Role of Mini Grids to Address Uganda’s Power Deficit Henry Semaganda, Senior Network Design Engineer, Rural Electrification Agency, Uganda
- Private Sector Mini Grids – Moving from transitional to transformational – Lessons from Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, Nigeria & Mali Murefu Barasa, Managing Partner, EED Advisory Limited
- Update on UK DFID support to the Green Mini Grids Sector in Africa Steven Hunt, Senior Energy & Innovation Advisor, Department for International Development
- Mini Grid Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Summary of Lessons Learned Lothar Jakab, Managing Director, Steinbeis Consulting Impact Investing
- Connecting subsistence communities with DC Microgrids Meshpower Rwanda
- Keynote address made on behalf of the Ministry of Energy by Dr. Amin Adam, Deputy Minister for Petroleum
- Path to country-wide electrification – Executive Secretary, Energy Commission, Dr. Alfred Ahenkorah
- Panel Discussion: The evolution, opportunities, and challenges of universal energy access – Ing. John Nuworklo, Fmr. Managing Director, NEDCo
- Role of Mini Grid and Off-grid Solutions in Achieving Universal Access – Seth A. Mahu, Deputy Director, Renewable Energy, Ministry of Energy
- Promoting Productive Uses of Energy as Part of Universal Access – Ing. Edem C. Bensah, KsTU/CEESD
- Designing Least Cost Mini Grids with HOMER Pro – Peter Lilienthal, Ph.D. CEO, HOMER Energy
- Opening remarks – Hon. John Peter Amewu
- Opening remarks – Hon Sr Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo_by Hon. Prof Gyan Baffour, Minister of Planning
- State of the Mini Grid Market Globally – Dr. James Knuckles, World Bank consultant [version with notes]
- Demand Creation and Productive Uses – Juliette Besnard [version without notes] [version with notes] & Tatia
Lemondzhava, World Bank, Facilitator
- Closing the Circuit – Richenda Van Leeuwen, Rocky Mountain Institute [version with notes]
Electric Cooking – Besnik Hyseni, World Bank and Dr. Ed Brown, UK Low Carbon Energy for
Development Network
- Workable Regulations – Gianmarco Servetti, Castalia, Facilitator [version with notes]
- Tanzania: Proposed SPP Development Rules – Victor Labaa, Energy and Water Utilities
Regulatory Authority (EWURA)
- Access to Finance – Subodh Mathur, Facilitator
- Project Finance for Scaling Mini Grids – Gabriel Davies, CrossBoundary Energy Access
- Early‐Stage Financing in Green Sectors in Sub‐Saharan Africa – Jin Lee, World Bank
- Technology and Costs – Dr. Chris Greacen, Facilitator [version with notes]
- Burkina Faso & Côte d’Ivoire Rural Electrification Case Studies – Mireia Gil, Azimut 360
- Strategies for Reducing Costs – Dr. Hasna Khan, CEO, PSL‐USA
- Geospatial Portfolio Planning – Ashish Shrestha, World Bank, Facilitator [version with notes]
- Nigeria Case Study – Suleiman Babamanu, Nigeria REA
- Private Sector perspective – Ibrahim Abada, Engie
- Community Engagement – Dramani Bukari, SNV World, Facilitator [version with notes]
- Kelly Carlin, Rocky Mountain Institute [version with notes]
- Dr. Ishmael Ackah, Energy Economist, Ghana Energy Commission
- Business Models and Enabling Business Environment – Dr. James Knuckles, Facilitator [version with notes]
- Three Generations of Mini Grids – Tatia Lemondzhava, World Bank [version with notes]
- Experience from Kenya – Mungai Kihara, Kenya Ministry of Energy
- Bangladesh Case Study – Syeeda Yeasmeen Meer, Idcol
- Taking Mini Grids to Scale Sustainably/ Institutional Framework –Subodh Mathur, Facilitator
- Mali Case Study ‐ Mahamadou Kanta, Mali Director of Rural Electrification [version in French]
- Bangladesh Case Study – Rasel Ahmed, Idcol
- Capacity Building/Training – Sunita Chikkatur Dubey, Facilitator
- Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, PhD
- Introduction to the Mini Grid Report & Today’s Agenda – Jon Exel, World Bank [version with notes]
- Taking mini grids to scale sustainability / Institutional framework – Seth Mahu, Ministry of Energy
- Mali Case Study – Mahamadou Kanta, Mali Director of Rural Electrification
- Mini grids and the private sector – Ricky Buch, World Bank
- Building gender equity into national rural electrification programs – Ifunanya Nwandu, REA [version with notes]