The historic summit, also called the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit, aims to speed up energy availability throughout the continent.
Over 1,500 delegates, including representatives from the African Union, the African Development Bank Group, and the World Bank Group, will attend the summit, which Tanzania is co-organizing, Noel Kaganda, Director of the Department of Multilateral Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation, told editors and journalists in Dar es Salaam.
Kaganda emphasized the summit as a forum for governments, leaders of the private sector, development partners, and civil society to further the objective of supplying 300 million Africans with access to power by 2030.
The Africa Energy Compact, a program aimed at achieving universal energy access by 2030, is anticipated to be endorsed by 14 pilot African nations, according to Innocent Luoga, the Ministry of Energy's Commissioner for Electricity and Renewable Energy.
Collectively, these countries are responsible for 52% of the world's population without access to electricity and 25% of those without access to clean cooking options.
Tanzania is increasing the production of power, according to Gerson Msigwa, the country's main government spokesperson, who highlighted the Julius Nyerere Hydroelectric Power Project (JNHP) as a major project. Six turbines at the JNHP are now producing 1,410 megawatts. It is anticipated that the project will produce 2,115 megawatts when it is finished later this year, greatly increasing Tanzania's energy capacity.
An additional 1,100 megawatts is anticipated to be contributed by projects that use alternative energy sources, including as geothermal, solar, and wind power, Msigwa concluded.