New Delhi: The India-Africa Strategic Partnership Meet held on Day 3 of the summit highlited a decisive global shift in energy transition discourse from capacity addition to execution quality, system integration, and scalable delivery.
Delivering the welcome address, Jitendra Srivastava, Chairman & Managing Director of REC Limited, highlighted the need to convert ambition into action across the electricity value chain, with a strong focus on grid-first planning and evacuation readiness. Setting the context, Gurdeep Singh, CMD of NTPC Limited, emphasised that large-scale energy transition requires coordinated system-level planning, aggregation models, and blended finance mechanisms to de-risk investments and crowd in private capital.
Offering a global perspective, Alain Ebobissé, CEO of Africa50, noted that Africa is increasingly moving towards investment-led energy development, with bankable project structuring, transmission infrastructure, and private capital mobilization emerging as critical enablers.
The session highlighted that energy transition is fundamentally a systems challenge, spanning grid, financing, and governance, and fortified India’s role as a strategic partner for Africa through replicable models, institutional expertise, and implementation-driven collaboration.
