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Let's Talk Energy Podcast — 90 episodes

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Could Cheap Renewable Power Become Africa's Next Industrial Advantage?

2

Can Africa Finance the Energy Systems Its Industrial Future Demands?

3

Can Battery Storage Become the Backbone of Africa's Power System?

4

Is Africa's Power Problem Really a Generation Problem?

5

Can Better Policy Turn Africa's Infrastructure Gap into an Investment Opportunity?

6

Can Africa Make Energy Access Bankable at Scale?

7

Africa Doesn't Just Need More Megawatts. It Needs Smarter Power.

8

Financing Africa's Next Growth Cycle

9

Can the Zambezi Power Southern Africa's Next Growth Story?

10

Beyond Engineering: Where Are the Jobs in Africa's Energy Transition?

11

From Entry-Level to Executive: What Does It Take to Accelerate Your Career?

12

Building Ghana's Power Projects: Is Bankability Holding Back Ambition?

13

Africa's Next Tech Wave: Can AI and IoT Move from Innovation to Scale?

14

Tomorrow's Work, Today: Can AI Deliver Africa's Next Jobs Boom?

15

Can Battery Storage Fast-Track Africa's Industrial Future?

16

Financing Africa's Energy Future: Where Will the Capital Come From?

17

Can Africa Industrialise Without Legal Certainty?

18

Capital Is Ready. So Why Aren't More Power Projects Being Built?

19

Can Africa industrialise without first fixing its grids?

20

Can Off-Grid Energy Power Africa's Industrial Future?

21

Is South Africa's Electricity Grid the Biggest Barrier to Renewable Energy Investment?

22

Can Electric Mobility Become Africa's Next Infrastructure Investment Opportunity?

23

Can Africa Build the Workforce to Deliver Its Energy Ambitions?

24

Scaling Impact: Inside Elsewedy Electric's African Strategy

25

From Fragility to Investment Destination: Can Energy Transform the Central African Republic?

26

Where Will Southern Africa's Next Wave of Solar Growth Come From?

27

Can Clean Energy Power Africa's Industrial Future?

28

Powering Possibility: NANT Power's Vision for Bankable Energy Infrastructure in Africa

29

Youth Powering Africa's Sustainable Future

30

Maximising The Power of Regional Collaboration to Scale Up Energy Development

31

Is Solar Enough? Rethinking Off-Grid Energy in West Africa

32

DFIs, Local Capital and Financing West Africa's Power Transition

33

Financing a Just Energy Transition in Africa

34

Strategic Vision for National Electricity & Energy Policy

35

De-risking Energy Investment: How Guarantees Are Powering Africa's Energy Future

36

From Cables to Clean Energy: Elsewedy Electric's Footprint Across Africa

37

Energy as Development: Finance, Infrastructure & Opportunity

38

How JA Solar Is Scaling Solar Across Africa

39

How Strategic IPP Investments Are Powering West Africa's Energy Future

40

The UEF effect: Can results-based finance scale access?

41

Tracking the Sun with Nextracker: Performance, Precision, and the Next Phase of Africa's Solar Growth

42

Beyond the Grid: Financing Southern Africa's Energy Revolution

43

From Policy to Project: The PDU Playbook

44

Energy Trading in Africa: Lessons from West Africa for the Zim Zam Corridor

45

Challenges and Opportunities in South Africa's Power Market Reform

46

Energy Transition and Legal Preparedness in Nigeria

47

Sungrow: Accelerating Clean Energy Adoption in Africa

48

Newsroom Afrika: young, black and broadcasting change

49

Harry Boyd-Carpenter on Making Coal-to-Clean Energy Transitions Work

50

Dr. Enos Banda on How CfDs Could Unlock Renewable Energy Investments in Africa

51

From coal to wind: how Seriti Green is reshaping Africa's energy future

52

A Conversation on Power, Policy, and the Future of Energy in Africa

53

Elsa Strydom on South Africa's IPP Programme: Powering a Constrained Grid Sustainably

54

Building Utility-Scale Renewables in Africa: Insights from Stuart MacWilliam at Mulilo

55

Standard Bank's Rentia van Tonder & Aadil Cajee: The Strategic Role of Finance in Energy

56

Advancing Energy Access in Africa – A Conversation with Zaheer Khan at Trina Solar

57

From Biogas to Breakthroughs - Smart Energy for Smart Growth with Cobus van Schalkwyk, Rolls-Royce Solutions Africa

58

Expanding Solar in the Middle East & Africa: A Conversation with Weiwei Du at Tongwei Solar

59

South Africa's Electricity Market Liberalisation: A Conversation with Alexandra Cluver at Bowmans

60

Gas-to-Power in Africa: Reliability, Hybrid Models & Investment with Dietmar Siersdorfer, Siemens Energy

61

Financing Africa's Energy Future Through BESS: A Conversation with Ronald Chindeka at Pele Green Energy

62

People Power – Africa's Talent as the Energy That Unites Us: A Conversation with Zandile Hlatywayo at ATP

63

Sustainable Finance in Africa's Energy Transition: A Conversation with Youri Harel at MCB

64

Scaling Sustainable Infrastructure in Africa: A Conversation with AIIM

65

Callixte Kambanda, Manager for Energy Policy, Regulation & Statistics Division, AfDB

66

Hadyr Koumakpai, General Manager Africa, JA Solar

67

Amyn Mussa, Partner, ALN Kenya

68

Richard Nelson, Coordinator, Power Africa

69

Obbie Banda, Underwriter & Acting RLSF Coordinator, ATIDI

70

Rim Azirar, Deputy Head of Investments, Mirova

71

Shirley Webber, Managing Principal, Coverage Head, Resources & Energy, Absa

72

Sarvesh Suri, Director, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

73

Olivier Pognon, Director & CEO, ALSF, with Gadi Taj Ndahumba, Chief Legal Counsel, ALSF

74

Ayobami Adedinni, Founder, The Energy Intelligence

75

Lucy Mutuku, CEO, National Youth Caucus Kenya

76

Lucy Nyoike, Senior Associate, Partnerships, Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP)

77

Deline Ramiro, Operations & Partnership Lead, Solidarity Initiative for Refugees (SIR)

78

Solomon Njonjo, Co-CEO, Serengeti Energy

79

Morgan Hillenbrand, Director of Communications, USAID's Engendering Industries Program, USA

80

Anmay Dittman, Director, BlackRock Climate Infrastructure

81

Chris Antonopoulos, CEO, Lekela Power

82

Dhireshni Chowthee, Principal: Energy Finance, Nedbank CIB

83

Shirley Webber, Managing Principal: Coverage Head of Resources & Energy, Absa CIB

84

Marcel Bruhwiler, Infrastructure Manager, East and Southern Africa, IFC

85

François-Xavier Dubois, Vice President Eastern Africa, Siemens Energy

86

Ryan Wang, General Manager, LONGi Africa

87

Marianna Gavriel and Mawuli Asempa, Mytilineos Energy & Metals

88

Luca Silva, COO, Red Rocket

89

Gadi Taj Ndahumba, Chief Legal Counsel, Energy & Sovereign Debt, ALSF

90

Anyababa Ikem, Investment Principal, AIIM