The remarks had been made on the High-Level Technical Meeting on AfSEM and the African Continental Power System Master Plan on Monday on the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
Speaking on the occasion, Kamugisha Kazaura, director of infrastructure and vitality on the AU Commission, mentioned the institutional and operational basis has been laid for a unified African electrical energy market, which delivers clear, dependable and reasonably priced energy to each nook of the continent.
“Activities are progressing nicely to outline a standard path ahead to deal with crucial technical and regulatory gaps and discover continental methods for renewable vitality deployment, buying and selling, and manufacturing,” Kazaura mentioned.
Noting that greater than 600 million Africans are nonetheless with out entry to electrical energy, Kazaura known as for pressing and sustainable motion to fulfill Africa’s quickly rising vitality demand by way of the complete implementation of the AfSEM.
Simbini Tichakunda, principal program officer on the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for African Development, mentioned Africa is standing on the point of an vitality revolution that guarantees to remodel the continent’s financial future.
“The dream of AfSEM is coming to life. The 400 KV seamless energy integration between Kenya and Tanzania, linking the grids of Kenya and Tanzania and synchronizing them with these of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a significant step ahead,” Tichakunda famous.
He mentioned the Eastern African Power Pool will likely be related to the Southern African Power Pool by 2027.
The two-day assembly is anticipated to debate the way to de-risk funding in energy infrastructure and strengthen institutional readiness on the nationwide and regional ranges.
