PAM Africa earns global recognition for its AI-driven platform to energy

Left - right: Simon Vanden Broeke, the Section Lead, Sustainable Infrastructure and Connectivity, Delegation of the European Union; Patrick Agese, CEO of PAM; and Mayowa Olasupo, the Head of Net Zero Village (NZV), at the Digital Energy Challenge Award in Dakar, Senegal recently

PAM Africa, an innovator in Africa’s energy sector, has won the Digital Energy Challenge award for the second time for its AI-driven integrated platform approach to energy.

The French Development Agency (AFD)-led contest, backed by the EU and ADEME, awards up to €150,000 and support to digital energy startups. The Nigerian firm triumphed again in 2025 in Dakar, Senegal, following its 2023 win, for its AI-platform enabling sustainable energy solutions.

With 600 million Africans lacking electricity, PAM Africa’s PAM-AI analyses vast data to predict failures and optimize grids, its Founder and CEO, Dr. Patrick Agese had said.

“It does what manual systems can’t,” he noted, stressing people-centered designs to cut grid failures amid rising solar and battery adoption.

PAM Africa’s 2025 win highlights its evolution into Africa’s energy enabler ecosystem, a fully integrated platform supporting energy companies, communities, and agribusinesses.

The firm is confident that it provides a complete energy infrastructure stack, helping organisations transition from pilot projects to scalable, profitable operations.

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Agese added that a brilliant community energy idea dies without proper systems; “PAM-AI solves these challenges.

“Results include 20 per cent cost cuts, fast responses, 3MW+ solar assets, 2MWh+ storage, and thousands of rural jobs that are all with urban-grade monitoring,” the founder emphasised.

PAM Africa has also won the Milken-Motsepe Prize, UK Energy Catalyst funding, and partnerships with SE4All, All-On, and Ze-Gen.

These accolades drive its goals: expand to 12 African markets by 2030, enable 50+ energy firms, create 20,000 green jobs, and deploy 200 Net Zero Villages.

The firm’s AI platform revolutionises Nigeria’s mini-grids, cutting battery needs by 15 per cent and diesel generators by 100 per cent.

“These wins prove that when you give African communities the right platform, they build solutions that rival anything in the world,” Agese said. “This isn’t just validation for PAM Africa. It’s proof that Africa-led innovation addresses the pain where it hurts most.”

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.