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Tanzania is set to host African Energy Summit 2025 aimed at raising USD 190 billion to provide electricity to 300 million people across the continent by 2030.
Tanzania is set to host African Energy Summit 2025 aimed at raising USD 190 billion to provide electricity to 300 million people across the continent by 2030. This initiative stems from the sixth-phase government’s strategy to rapidly extend electricity access to rural and peri-urban areas, attracting the attention of the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to organise this significant meeting in January 2025.
World Bank and AfDB convene this major summit in Africa which brings together various stakeholders, international institutions, and lenders to facilitate investments in electricity, stated Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa during a meeting on Africa’s energy agenda organised by the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) in New York, USA.
The summit, co-organized by the World Bank, AfDB, and the African Union Commission, is expected to connect world leaders, industry experts, and civil society organisations in seeking ways to ensure reliable energy access, advanced clean energy technologies, and sustainable policies. He commends the government of Norway and the Rockefeller Foundation for supporting the World Bank and AfDB’s efforts to ensure electricity reaches 300 million people by 2030. This initiative is crucial, especially for countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, where over 600 million people lack electricity access. One cannot achieve sustainable development without urgently addressing this challenge.
The Prime Minister thanked the World Bank and AfDB for their commitment to continue collaborating with the government to achieve Tanzania’s goal of electrifying every household by 2030. Earlier, the President of the AfDB, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, stated that 900 million women struggle without clean cooking energy, emphasising that cooking energy should be dignified.
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Dr Adesina praised President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan for effectively managing the energy sector, particularly in clean cooking energy production, and expressed a desire to see the transition from traditional cooking methods to clean energy achieved by 2030. Meanwhile, the President of Liberia, Joseph Boakai, who also attended the meeting, stressed that electricity is critical for human life and must be prioritised, as development cannot occur without it.
