Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo 2024

The 8th Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo 2024 will be held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, from 8-10 October, co-hosted by GOGLA, the association for the off-grid solar industry, Government of Kenya and the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP).

The event is set to welcome more than 1500 attendees, 90 exhibitors, 100+ policymakers, and hundreds of investors and development actors from around the world. Known as the off-grid sector’s leading meeting place, the Forum will feature powerful discussions, showcase disruptive technologies, and create spaces to unlock new and innovative partnerships that will help drive universal electricity access, build climate resilience, and power agriculture, enterprise, health and more.

We are delighted to announce the Africa Minigrid Developers Association (AMDA), Africa E-Mobility Alliance (AfEMA), and Global Distributors Collective (GDC) will partner with GOGLA around the programme agenda for the 2024 Forum, ensuring the event encompasses a broad range of energy access technologies. It will also feature agriculture, enterprise, and climate themes and a weak-grid technology showcase.

GOGLA is the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry, representing over 200 members working to transform lives through clean, affordable, and high-quality solar products and services.

More than 560 million climate-vulnerable people already benefit from off-grid solar to power their homes, farms, enterprises and public infrastructure. With the right support, our industry is poised to scale rapidly, aiming to improve the lives of 1 billion people by 2030.

GOGLA drives this progress by serving as a central hub for the sector, offering vital market data, advocating for supportive policies and increased investment, and providing value-added services to our members.

Lighting Global is the World Bank’s initiative to rapidly increase access to off-grid solar energy for the hundreds of millions of people living without electricity world-wide. Managed by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), we work with governments, the private sector, development partners, and end-users, continually innovating to unlock key market barriers and enable access and affordability to those that would otherwise be left behind. Our support has expanded to technologies that go far beyond lighting, including stand-alone solar systems to power the needs of households, farms, businesses, schools, and health centers, and more. We operate with funding gratefully acknowledged from ESMAP and their donors.

The State Department of Energy facilitates the provision of clean, sustainable, affordable, competitive, and secure energy for national development while protecting the environment.