AREI focuses on creating integrated solutions to address the twin challenges of universal access to energy and climate change mitigation.
The Initiative is based on the idea that all societies, including those in Africa, must adopt energy systems with low or zero carbon emissions in order to prevent climate change from being catastrophic.
In accordance with the commitments and principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), these efforts by Africa must be supported, inter alia, by international public climate financing.
AREI highlights the need to do more than expand household and family access to electricity and provide sufficient volumes of modern energy carriers for the development of local and national production sectors to create jobs, prosperous economic development and greater resilience. This requires meeting the needs of small farmers and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in terms of quantity and quality of access to energy. This vision is based on the idea that access to electricity is not limited to the strict minimum needs of households.
For the poor, better access to energy is an opportunity to improve their livelihoods. As a result, AREI will then promote unprecedented efforts to reach populations that are currently not connected to national networks.
It will plan to expand access to electricity for social services as African societies take steps to develop social security and other means to improve the well-being of their populations in the coming decades.
AREI plans to install intelligent and decentralized energy systems that can exploit various renewable energy technologies.
With a highly diversified ownership base compared to conventional and centralized energy systems, a large number of households, communities, cooperatives, MSMEs and large companies are becoming both producers and consumers of electricity. This will enable Africa to move quickly to the energy systems of the future.