Now in its third year, AIX Power and Renewablesaddresses the challenges facing investors and theinnovative structures emerging from deals along theelectricity value chain.

Sponsored by Denham Capital and BioTherm Energy,the meeting serves a high-level constituency ofcorporate and official players who are directlyinvolved in project development and finance, and thestructuring of policy.

Proceedings will be held under the Chatham HouseRule and are structured around interactive panel-ledsessions and roundtable discussions to encouragean open exchange of views.

• Engage with experts, to better understand the sector’s outlook and examine the reasons for project bottlenecks and delays.

• Expand your network of industry contacts, financiers, investors and policy experts

• Explore innovative financial structures, commercial returns, entry and exit strategies.

• Measure the wider impact of investments on socialand economic development

• Discuss political, social and other issues affecting power projects in Africa Hardball

• Analyse key markets, including, Cameroon, Egypt, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa.

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About us

CbI MeetingsCbI Meetings was formed in 2013 by Cross-border Information, anestablished Africa and Middle East- focused consultant active in primaryinfrastructure sectors. Led by experienced regional specialists, CbIworks closely with the project development community on issues thataffect public and private sector investment decisions.

In 2014 we created the Africa Investment Exchange, a series ofinternational meetings for leading investors in Africa’s high growthindustries. Our programme for 2016, will see the launch of a newInvestment Exchange series focused on the MENA region.

The agenda for all our Investment Exchange meetings are developed byconsultants and analysts at CbI who work closely with the projectdevelopment community on issues that affect public and private sectorinvestment decisions.

All exchanges are

• Held under the Chatham House Rule

• Structured panel-led discussions and roundtables.

• Concluded with Africa Hardball – a political risk strategy roundtable, which examines issues including the capacity of governments to deliver on projects.

• Hosted at RSA House, the Royal Society of Arts’ historic headquarters in London, an ideal venue for networking, with good breakout spaces and rooms for private meetings.

Directors

Bruno Coburn

Tel: +44 (0)1424 721667Email: bruno@cbi-meetings.co.uk

Nick Carn

Tel: +44 (0)1424 721667Email: nick@cbi-research.com

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AIX: Power and Renewables

Day one – Monday 21 November

08h30 to 09h00 Registration & coffee

09h00 to 10h00Africa power outlook

Scaling up: from solar in the Sahel, to hydropower inEthiopia and gas-to-power in southern Africa,significantly increased generation, transmission anddistribution investment is promised in the period to2030. How do a range of stakeholders – new andestablished players, local and internationaldevelopers, commercial investors and developmentfinance institutions – see the prospects?

• Fuel mix and the hunt for baseload – gas, coal, hydropower: African planners want their electricity supply problems fixed with �multi-gigawatt projects.Is this the solution?

• Rates of return: the price of renewables and the financial returns �expected and anticipated – including research from Cross-border Information

• Key trends in energy finance – and how they apply to African power projects

�10h00 to 11h00 Mobilising funds

Debate involving institutional investors, private equityfirms, fund of funds, family offices, DFIs andfundraisers on approaches to investment, structuringportfolios, pitfalls in deals, target sectors and otheropportunities and challenges.

�11h00 Coffee

11h30 to 12h00�Climate finance mechanisms �

COP 21 promised hugely increased funding andmeasures that should impact on supply and demand.

• With COP22 looming, how has the COP21 process impacted on the African power sector?

• Can we identify specific opportunities and instruments arising from the process?

�11h30 to 12h30 �From early stage development to bringing projectsto market

Debate in previous AIX meetings has often turned toearly stage problems. This session will measureprogress.

• Structuring deals, breaking the bottlenecks – accelerating project implementation

• Achieving bankability: innovative solutions to the issues inherent with project development

• Transmission projects: how to engage the private sector?

12h30 to 13h00Country snapshot – Nigeria

How is President Muhammadu Buhari’s clean-upcampaign and power investment programme holdingup?

13h00

Lunch

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AIX: Power and Renewables

Stream 1

14h00 to 15h30Big-ticket power projects

Huge opportunities for international investors inAfrica if its much-needed large scale infrastructureprojects are bankable.

• Breaking mega-plans down into practical projects

• Regulatory issues and other challenges facing cross-border schemes, including ease of access at borders

• Leveraging mining and other extractive industry- related investment to finance big ticket power infrastructure development

16h00 to 17h15Renewable energy models

This session will examine established and newrenewable energy programmes, asking:

• REIPPP: is it a reference anywhere outside South Africa?

• GET FiT and other Feed-in Tariff structures – are they exportable?

• Finding the most appropriate technologies – Morocco has pioneered CSP at Ouarzazate, but aremore basic PV systems more appropriate in most cases. Can African economies really build new industries, such as wind turbine construction, on the back of RE investments?

• Mini-grids – huge potential and challenges

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Stream 2

14h00 to 15h30 Impact investors in off-grid

Examining off-grid consumer models andopportunities for investment in decentralised energyschemes.

• Are models of development based on grants, foundations and other such funding sustainable?

• What do off-grid/access activists and other stakeholders want from the markets?

15h45 to 17h00Bringing private equity and other commercialinvestors to off-grid projects

• Can PE and other investors find the rates of return they need to make substantial investments?

• Is there potential to ‘bundle up’ off-grid assets to attract institutional and other big investors?

This session will seek to bring together investors andactivists to find common ground, exploring the art ofthe possible.

Day 1: afternoon break-out sessionsRoundtable discussions in the afternoon are structured to stimulate collaboration and innovative thinkingfor Africa’s power and renewable industries. Suggested themes are listed below.

15h30 Coffee

17h15 Evening reception

21-22 November

Day two – Tuesday 22 November

09h00 to 10h00Hydro power models

New and traditional investors discuss theopportunities and challenges from big-scale projectsto mini-hydro.

10h00 to 10h45Country snapshot – Rwanda

Putting in place an enabling environment forinvestment in hydro and solar�

10h45 Coffee

11h15 to 12h00�Country snapshot – South Africa

REIPPP progress and the LNG to power programme.

12h00 to 13h00

Innovative financing solutions

Alternative’ financial structures – to what extent arenew players establishing themselves as sources offinance for power and renewables investments

• Discussion of innovative structures including yield, holding and platform �companies, mezzanine debt and other models

• PE entry and exit strategies

• Tapping the bond market for infrastructure finance

• Equities markets and pension funds

13h00 to 13h15Concluding observations �

13h15Lunch

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�14h15 to 17h00 Africa Hardball: Political, social and otherproblems affecting renewables projects

�Renewables projects offer clean energy but stillcarry plenty of political and other risks. Thissession of CbI’s Africa Hardball meetings will takelessons from the main AIX Power & Renewablesconference to explore these problems, anddiscuss other issues.

These will include:

• problems of land rights, local governance and domestic political agitation – with analysis of issues that have emerged in Kenya and several other polities

• stresses on water and other resources, and howthey can mire developers in wider political and social conflicts

• cleaner than clean? Concerns over governance – analysis of cronyism, corruption and other abuses in the context of personalised politics in Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique and Tanzania

• South Africa: REIPPP success despite the problems weighing on President Zuma.

�After opening analytical discussion, AfricaHardball will apply its established scenario-building process to seek to answer thequestions and draw-up practical policyrecommendations.

Participation at Hardball is included in the full AIX:Power and Renewables ticket. Tickets may alsobe bought separately for £300 plus VAT andinclude lunch on day two of AIX: Power andRenewables.

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Standard package £7,000 £12,000 £16,000

Guest places per event 3 4 4

For each event sponsored:Corporate logo on event website, agenda, brochure and marketing emails

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Full-page colour ad in the meeting book

Corporate literature in meeting bag

Panel position – Number per event 1 2 2

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Advanced package - tailored to include some or all of the following:

Exhibition space

One of the following at each event sponsored: Coffee break sponsor, Lunchsponsor, Delegate bag sponsor, Evening reception sponsor

Meeting room at RSA House for sponsor to conduct private meetings withclients and potential clients at AIX

Exclusivity – Sponsors that book early may choose to be an exclusive sponsorfor a category of business

Email nick@cbi-research.com to discuss pricing options

For sponsorship or speaker enquiries contact:

Nick CarnTel: +44 (0)1424 721667Email: nick@cbi-research.com

Venue: RSA HouseDesigned in the early 1770s, RSAHouse is a famous centre forEnlightenment thinking, theintellectual and social home of someof the greatest thinkers and socialactivists of the past 200 years.

8 John Adam Street, London WC2N6EZ.

Please register those listed below for AIX: Power and Renewables:

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