The CTI PFAN Africa Forum for Clean Energy Financing (AFRICEF), seeks to nurture individuals, project teams and consortia, start-up and existing companies with environmentally beneficial business proposals with the aim of making them happen.

The CTI PFAN Africa Forum for Clean Energy Financing will be hosted in Johannesburg, 14th-15th September 2010.

This forum will showcase clean energy business sourced from across Africa to potential investors. Projects from across the continent have been invited to provide present their business plans and thus to source the financing they seek.  A panel of judges, made up of investors, industry specialists and business executives who have a keen interest in enabling cleaner and greener projects will select the best projects for award of the CTI Africa Clean Energy Financing Awards. 

AFRICEF is promoted by the Climate Technology Initiative (CTI) and its Private Financing Advisory Network (CTI PFAN), the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Centre for Environmental Technology Transfer (ICETT). AFRICEF is promoted by the Climate Technology Initiative (CTI) and its Private Financing Advisory Network (CTI PFAN), the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Centre for Environmental Technology Transfer (ICETT) and is co-organised by;

• The Rural Electrification Agency of Uganda (REA): http://www.rea.or.ug


• The South African National Energy Research Institute (SANERI) http://www.saneri.org.za/


• The Private Sector Foundation of Uganda Energy for Rural Transformation Programme (PSF / ERT) http://www.psfuganda.org.ug


• Fundo de Energia de Mozambique (FUNAE) http://www.funae.co.mz    

Proposals for this round of coaching has closed, however PFAN Africa is interested to receive applications from clean energy businesses at all times. Find out more on the criteria and application process and timeline in the adjacent document titled, "AFRICEF Guidelines.pdf" or contact Peter Storey, peter.storey@ppl-int.com