Save the date: 16 - 17 November 2022
The online virtual Africa Wind Energy 2022 Conference & Exhibition event is set to take place on 16 and 17 November 2022
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Wind power is a clean, renewable and cost-effective method of generating power. As system production costs decrease and the world turns to renewable energy, larger wind power farms are being built and are starting to encounter challenges in safety and operation efficiency.
Africa has the potential to utilise its renewable resources such as wind to fuel its future. Doing so is economically viable compared to other solutions and offers substantial benefits in terms of local value creation, energy security and environmental sustainability mainly through job opportunities improving the standard of living for the majority of the continent’s population and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), African grid-based power generation was 158 GW in 2012. A projection of the current capacity of wind power generation would mean that the sector represents only 2,5% of the production. McKinsey and the IEA forecasts are predicting that by 2040, while the population in sub-Saharan Africa will double and the economy will grow by a factor of four, the energy demand will significantly increase by around 80% under the effects of clean energy policies. Taking a demand-driven approach, the total power generation capacity will quadruple to 385 GW, from 90 GW in 2012.
Join entrepreneurs, investors and other relevant stakeholders in discussing ways to take advantage of this golden opportunity to invest in Africa and help the continent develop in a sustainable way; one that’s good for the planet and its people.
