9th Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo

The 9th Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo brings together more than 1,000 business leaders, investors, policymakers, and development partners to advance electricity access through distributed renewable energy. The Forum is convened by GOGLA, the global association for the off-grid solar industry, together with the World Bank Group's Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) and the Government of Rwanda.

 

Held every two years, the Forum is the sector's principal global gathering. Across three days, the program combines plenary sessions, thematic tracks, an exhibition of technologies and services, and structured opportunities for business and investment meetings. Sessions examine how distributed renewable energy can be delivered at scale as essential infrastructure, covering household electrification, productive use and agriculture, mini-grids, energy for health and education facilities, results-based financing, and the policy and regulatory conditions that sustain market growth.

 

Mission 300, the World Bank Group and African Development Bank initiative to connect 300 million people in Africa to electricity by 2030, has brought new attention to the mix of technologies universal access requires. Around half of those connections are expected to come from solar home systems and mini-grids. The Forum is where the industry, its investors, and its government and development partners meet to address what that will take.

 

Registration and the full program are available at offgridsolarforum.org.