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    AfCFTA will Enact the World’s Largest Free Trade Area Solidifying Represented Market of 1.3 Billion Consumers

    Posted On 14 Jan 2020
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    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- ETHIOPIA, African Continental Free Trade Area agreement (AfCFTA) will establish the world’s largest free trade area, joining an integrated market of 1.3 billion consumers with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) roughly calculated at $3.4 trillion.

    Objectively, is to actualize a continent-wide single market for goods and services with free movement of business, persons and investments. The AfCFTA envisages to unfold intra-African trade and intensify regional integration by successively eliminating tariffs on 90% of product categories. Subtracting of such trade barriers assures to not only enhance efficiency, improve competition, and incentivize development of strategic solutions to local challenges through regional economies of scale, but essentially advance the efficacy of resource allocation.

    Successful implementation of the agreement is set to have a profound impact on the continent’s energy sector. Regional integration pertaining to energy, represents a viable solution for emerging economies to enhance their energy landscapes in furtherance of realizing social, environmental and economic benefits owing to improved efficacy of resource utilization . Regional integration is pivotal to ensure that energy resources get from localities where they are most affordable, to where they are required.

    Correspondingly, regional integration on account of the AfCFTA, is forecast to improve security of supply. Integrating operational reserves and installed capacity enables combined power systems from having to invest in additional facilities.

    In the event of emergency situations, regional collaboration provides an alternative source of supply for operating reserves and support thereof. Precisely, sharing with neighboring countries can provide advanced system flexibility and reliability by expanding the supply portfolio of diverse energy resources as opposed to exclusively relying on regional and established resources and supply infrastructure.

    To address the continent’s existing energy infrastructure gap, African governments are proactively aiming to elaborate electricity access, deliver clean cooking solutions and pursue inclusive sustainable energy development. While these efforts are locally supported through existing platforms such as the regional power pools, the AfCFTA provides an entirely new platform to expand these efforts regionally and pursue energy development to relieve the infrastructure restraint. Key anticipated outcome of the agreement is the acceleration of industrial output that would comparatively depend on the availability, affordability and security of energy supplies at a scale for industrial growth.

    Improved energy trade and energy integration initiatives will boost economic development in Africa by reducing transaction costs and enabling market and economic collaboration, conclusively accelerating investment incentives. Further, removal of impediments to intra-African trade by AfCFTA portends additional US public and private investment in Africa’s oil and power sectors, since increased investment is aligned with US policy as well as sound business consideration.

    Africa is renowned for its abundance of renewable energy resources, amidst which include wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower. These establish consequential impetus for regional energy integration. Progression and mobilization of such clean renewable energy sources through regional collaboration efforts afford the continent’s citizens improved environmental quality.

    “Developing renewable energy resources to address the demand for energy in Africa, will be in the spotlight at the upcoming Africa Energy Indaba. The conference will discuss the AfCFTA and how investors and energy project developers can benefit from the agreement and how this can catalyze the development of renewable energy projects.” commented Liz Hart, Managing Director – Africa Energy Indaba.

    Similarly, renewable energy resources are site specific and therefore be exclusively transported through electricity interconnections. Additionally, power interconnections remain the only expedient alternative to making fuels or resources such as lignite, hydropower and renewable resources, available to other areas. Electricity interconnections, realized by regional integration, enable the expansion of these energy resources to benefit the continent at large.

    The 2020 Africa Energy Indaba is set to assemble leaders from the regional and international power and energy community to deliberate the status of critical projects, identify lucrative investment and development opportunities, how best to capitalize on those prospects as well as to share industry best practice.

    The 12th annual event will be hosted on 3rd and 4th March 2020 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, a unique yet ideal environment to facilitate networking for stakeholders in Africa’s energy arena.

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