Where it started:

High energy prices, unreliable electricity supply and low electrification rates have synthesised an energy crisis, posing major set back in the region’s economic growth. This is the position with all the five Partner States of the East African Community (EAC) - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda Tanzania and Uganda.

EABC and EAC have teamed up to organize an energy conference for business leaders and top government officials in the East African region, to address the ongoing energy crisis.

This landmark conference is a follow up to the successful conference held in Frankfurt, Germany, in September 2007 which brought together 200 representatives from East Africa and Germany. This conference helped to establish linkages between technology providers, financiers and companies interested in future-oriented investments in East Africa. (Please click here for a report of this conference)

What we are looking to achieve from the conference:

To spur and enhance short term and locally financed investment in the energy sector, both grid and off grid and renewable energy; with a view to increasing the quality, reliability and supply of energy, which should result in lower costs of production and consequently a more competitive EAC private sector.

This Conference, involving varied expertise from the private and public sector should serve as an important reagent in resolving the energy crisis, hence reducing poverty and create employment.

Participants mix:

Government, Regulators, Revenue Authorities, companies drawn from the Energy and its auxiliary sectors; Mining, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Transport, Telecommunication Industries; Bankers and International Financiers, International development support organisations and media, among others.

Expected output:

• A well researched Renewable Energy Study incorporating opportunities in various types of renewable energy; their commercial viability for investment the environment in which they will operate; and means to incentivise potential investors, among others.

• Opportunity to network with stakeholders drawn from business, finance, environment, energy and public sector during and after the conference.

• Showcasing, from the EAC countries, at least one commercially viable and currently existing renewable energy project in each type of mode to be discussed at the conference.

• Policy requirements to incentivise investment in the energy sector by EAC private sector; which will in turn inform EABC’s lobby position in the energy sector.

I invite all energy sector stakeholders, be they energy suppliers, users like manufacturers and industrialists, investors, financiers and consultants to join us in this important event that seeks to leverage this key issue to our competitiveness as the EAC region.
WELCOME ALL!

Reginald Mengi,
EABC Chairman

M/s Fina Mango,
Managing Partner,
One Plus Communication,
Victoria Oilcom Office Complex,
Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road,
Tel/Fax.: 0 22 700 216
P. O Box 978,
Dar es Saaam
Tanzania.

E: fina@oneplus.co.tz