West Africa Energy Cooperation Summit Agenda 2025

Note: Topics, timings and speakers may be subject to change as the agenda develops.
French Translation will be available throughout the agenda.

WAPP vision: “To integrate the national power systems into a unified regional electricity market with the
ultimate goal of providing, in the medium and long term, a regular and reliable energy at competitive cost to the citizenry of the ECOWAS region.”

• How is the ECOWAS region working together to fulfil their energy needs at national and regional level?
• What are the needs and solutions for regional interconnection?
• Making standardised energy trading a reality through WAPP

• From tenders to financial close for solar and wind projects – where are the most promising opportunities?
• Insights into tenders in Benin (MCC), Burkina Faso (World Bank) and more
• What does Just Energy Transition mean for different countries in the region? E.g. Nigeria is mostly run on diesel generators vs Ghana which is 89% electrified.
• What is the state of storage? What are lessons learnt from recent projects (Malawi, Sierra Leone etc.)
• How can World Bank’s 800 MW scaling solar in Côte d’Ivoire be replicated in West Africa?

• What are the updates on the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline, the Trans-Saharan gas pipeline and the expansion plans for the West Africa Gas Pipeline?
• Fit for purpose – where are the opportunities to upgrade old existing infrastructure?
• How is the financing discussion changing? Are global and local investors ready to unleash capital post-US elections?
• HFO to gas in Senegal’s Bel Air power plant and Ghana’s Tema, what next?
• Regional outlook for oil and gas production as the world moves away from fossil fuels, raising concerns about long-term economic stability and investment.

• What are the debt, currency and macro-economic factors exclusive to the region, and is the financial
  community prepared?
• With Power Africa’s withdrawal creating a significant gap, what opportunities exist for financiers?
• How can local commercial capital, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds lead the way and strengthen international investor confidence?
• Local currency funding as the way forward to improve the capacity, efficiency, and management.
• Blended financing solutions.

Ghana’s economic reforms and debt restructuring efforts under President John Mahama’s leadership is making fast progress. Its economy is cooling inflation faster than anyone expected from more than 50% in 2022 into the low teens in 2025. And in 2024, Ghana’s GDP growth exceeded expectations, reaching 5.7%, a significant improvement from the 3.1% recorded in 2023.

• The Volta Economic Corridor, 24-hour economy and a $10 billion infrastructure program, how is Ghana delivering these ambitious programmes and specifically where are the energy projects?
• What is Ghana doing to win back investor confidence?
• What are investors looking for to move forward?