Amit Goel, Director @ Synergy Consulting, Inc., shared his views at the Africa Energy Forum (AEF) during the panel “Critical Minerals to Accelerate Investment in Renewable Energy Projects”.
The panel explored how mining demand can underpin Africa’s renewable build-out and industrialisation.
Amit from Synergy Consulting brought a clear transaction-advisory view to the table on this discussion panel.
Scaling renewables on the back of mining demand isn’t the job of any one party — government, IPPs and miners have to move together.
Government provides a credible, stable policy framework and enables open access; developers build; and a creditworthy mining offtaker steps forward to anchor the demand.
When a private client comes forward as the offtaker, the project can be financed on that contract rather than leaning on the sovereign balance sheet — easing pressure on already-stretched public finances.
The African continent doesn’t lack renewable projects; it lacks bankable ones, delivered at speed.
The opportunity is to make the mine-anchored renewable deal a product, not a project — standardising bankable offtake, open-access wheeling, and risk allocation, so one transaction becomes many.
Policy certainty is the multiplier: where the rules are credible and durable, capital moves faster and at lower cost.
Conversations like these are a valuable part of shaping how Africa’s energy and infrastructure get financed and delivered.
Thank you to aef for providing this discussion opportunity and thank you to all participants for making this an engaging discussion.
Moderator:
Dhireshni Bageloo Chowthee
Speakers:
Amit Goel
Sampson Mamphweli
Prof Ephraim Munshifwa (PhD)
Abdoulaye Barry
Alasdair Martin
Bradley Reddy
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