About ACEB

About ACEB

About Us

ACEB is a continental membership forum coalescing businesses and stakeholders to support clean energy procurement and investment.

As energy is central to socio-economic advancement, we advocate for aspirational and high ambition energy investment, development and consumption.

We do this by facilitating training and education, policy and regulatory advocacy, and expanding innovation in clean energy markets.

We collaborate with governments, financial institutions, nonprofits and institutions. We welcome partnerships and supporters.

Enam Akoetey
Founder

Enam Akoetey

Africa Clean Energy Buyers (ACEBuyers) is founded by Enam Akoetey (formerly Enam Akoetey-Eyiah) to act as a bridge to bring stakeholders together and a windmill to channel our collective power to drive innovation, market development and accelerated action in energy markets across Africa.

Enam brings over two decades pioneering work in the climate and carbon asset project development, international development, education, renewable energy market development and policy and regulatory innovation in Africa and globally.

She's a member of the Methodological Expert Panel for the Article 6.4 mechanism of the Paris Agreement and member of the Technical Working Group for the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Scope 2 revision.

Prior to founding ACEBuyers, she founded reNewClimate in 2006, a pioneer carbon asset developer that created and sold forestry carbon in 2007 on the voluntary market. reNewClimate continues to develop projects in biochar and clean mobility and is advisers' corporates on their climate, sustainability and clean energy journey.

She developed the I-REC market in Africa and spoke authoritatively at many regional and international conferences on the energy paradox and opportunities and is a passionate advocate for:

  • Recognition of Africa's power pools as single EAC markets.
  • Displacing diesel/petrol gensets with renewables by leveraging tracking instruments.
  • Accurate measurement of Africa's true energy demand.
  • Accurate measurement, accounting and reporting of emissions from diesel/petrol generator fleet by global organisations to bring awareness and drive action to finance the compelling energy demand.

She has advised and led corporates on measure, report and account for corporate greenhouse gas and net-zero strategy globally.

Enam owns a forest in Ghana – and supports community reforestation and afforestation initiatives by donating nursery inputs and seeds.

Enam has multidisciplinary educational background: BSc Marketing, MSc Development Studies, MBA Leadership and LLM Energy and Environment candidate at University of Birmingham. She has professional qualifications in teaching, GHG accounting and reporting and PRINCE2.

She's a chair of governors at a high-achieving school in Newham, England. Enam is a traditional leader, known as Nana Efua Adadzewa I, Safohen to the Paramount Chief of the Ekumfi traditional area. Proud mother of vibrant and vivacious three.

Advisors

Steve Knell

Steve Knell

PhD – CEO at Energy Intelligence & Professor at SOAS

Adam White

Adam White

Secretary General of RECs International