5th German-African Energy Forum "Germany - Energy Partner for Africa"

Given the growing German-African cooperation in the energy sector, the German African Business Association will continue to focus on these developments and will organize the 5^th German-African Energy Forum from 19-21 April, 2010. The forum will again seek to attract cooperation partners from Africa and Germany, to further direct attention of the German energy industry on the potential of the African continent.

The Energy Forum is under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, represented by Hans-Joachim Otto, Parliamentary State Secretary.

On the first two days of the event in Hamburg, the conference will bring together top-level speakers and representatives to present and discuss the following issues of the African energy sector and the German-African energy cooperation: 

• Upstream: Exploration, Production & Marketing
• Pipeline (Construction and Operation)
• Downstream: Refining, Petrochemicals and Distribution
• Power: Production, Transmission, Distribution
• Energy Efficiency
• Renewable Energies: Solar, Wind, Hydropower, Geothermal and Biofuels
• Clean Development Mechanism
• Financing and Insurance of African Energy Projects

The programme will be continued by a visit of the Hannover Energy Fair. We invite all participants of the 5^th German-African Energy Forum to spend a whole day at the Hanover Fair, the world’s largest energy & industrial fair. As in 2009, the German-African Energy Forum will again be a part of the “World Energy Dialogue”, which will bring together with high-ranking speakers from the industry, science and politics. In the afternoon of 21 April high-ranking African government and company representatives will take part in a panel discussion under the title "German-African Energy Dialogue". The moderator is Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

For further information, please, visit the website of the African Energy Forum.