Powering production: A developmental energy transition for Africa
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- Date
- Time
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9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Senate House
- Room
- SALT Room
- Event type
- Conference & Event highlights
About this event
The Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation presents its first bi-annual conference.
Energy transition is foundational to sustainable structural transformation in Africa and beyond. The first bi-annual conference will address the issue of energy transition from developmental and ‘productionist’ perspectives, that is, focusing on how to pivot the energy transition to drive sustainable industrialisation and broader structural transformation.
Invited speakers will be focusing on the diverse experiences across African countries and contrast them with relevant comparators across the global south.
Event structure
The conference is structured around three main themes and related panels:
- Renewable technologies and new energy systems,
- Green hydrogen and industrialisation opportunities,
- New developments at the interface of energy and industrial policy.
The conference will be enriched by a roundtable discussion focusing on how to make just energy transition developmental in Africa.
This is an in-person event. If you can only attend the event on-line please register your interest by writing an email to csst@soas.ac.uk and you will receive a Microsoft Team link to attend the event.
Image by Jason Richard via Unsplash.
Programme
| Time | Event | Participants |
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| 9:00am - 9:15am | Welcome and opening remarks |
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| 9:15am - 10:00am | Keynote and Discussion |
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| 10:00am - 11:15am | Renewable technologies and new energy systems: investments, technology diffusions and gaps | Chair: Simon Roberts (CSST SOAS and CCRED University of Johannesburg)
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| 11:15am - 11:30am | Coffee break | |
| 11:30am - 1:00pm | Building of a Green Competitive Advantage: Green Hydrogen and new industrialisation pathways | Chair: Antonio Andreoni (CSST SOAS)
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| 1:00pm - 2:15pm | Lunch | |
| 2:15pm - 3:15pm | Roundtable discussion on just transition | Chair: Ha-Joon Chang
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| 3:15pm - 3:30pm | Coffee break | |
| 3:30pm - 4:45pm | New developments at the interface of energy and industrial policy | Chair: Ha-Joon Chang (CSST SOAS)
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| 4:45pm - 5:00pm | Closing remarks and next steps | Antonio Andreoni (CSST SOAS) |
About the Centre
The SOAS Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation (CSST) reimagines and promotes structural transformation in an age of ecological and social crises through industrial policy that is long-term-oriented and frame-shifting.
By acting as an action-oriented hub for research, learning and policy for the Global South, especially Africa, CSST conducts path-breaking research on structural transformation, industrial dynamics, and economic diversification strategies and on how to make them environmentally and socially sustainable. Going beyond research silos, CSST advances an integrated framework focusing on four inter-linked research and industrial policy areas: energy transition, critical minerals, restructuring of supply chains, and construction of new infrastructure.
CSST conducts research in these areas through deep dives into countries and sectors, with a view to unlocking sector-specific binding constrains and promoting linkages across sectors. CSST’s research will be rooted in the understanding of national and international political economy, trends in industrial and technological changes, and the constant changes in business models.
