The market environment for enabling growth of clean energy in Zambia

Zambia is committed to meeting sustainable energy for all and contributing to climate change mitigation by scaling up clean energy. To facilitate this transition, Zambia has created an enabling environment for clean energy investment. However, these reforms are still to translate into increased investments. Through rapid evidence review and stakeholder interviews, this brief critically examines the efficiency of the interlinked energy project development stages and processes, and corresponding policies and regulations, plus the actors involved and their roles. We identified several institutional and structural factors related to the energy market that hinder the growth of clean energy. These include procedural challenges such as licencing and permitting and the absence of a truly open-access grid regime.