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Host Nico is joined by Aimee Jenks from the Global Platform for Action on Sustainable Energy in Displacement Settings, Desalegn Woldemariam, Managing Director of Humanitarian Energy Plc in Ethiopia, and Douglas Cox, who leads Renewvia’s work in East Africa from Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.

Together, they discuss what it really takes to electrify refugee settlements in Kenya and Ethiopia. The conversation explores how camps differ from rural villages, what electricity is used for in displacement settings, and why power is still often overlooked in humanitarian planning.

They also unpack the realities of financing, subsidies, diesel lock-in, private-sector risk, UN compounds as anchor clients, and the regulatory conditions needed to scale mini-grids and energy access for both refugees and host communities.

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