African Power Week (AEW) 2025: Spend money on African Energies – happening from September 29 to October 3 in Cape City – will host a distinguished group of regulatory, coverage and advisory leaders from throughout Africa and past. Contributors embody Dr. Zwanani Titus Mathe, CEO of the South African Nationwide Power Growth Institute (SANEDI); Mor Bakhoum, Technical Secretary of Senegal’s ST-CNSL; Oneyka Cindy Ojogbo, Deputy Managing Accomplice at CLG; Khaled Abu Bakr, Vice President of the Worldwide Fuel Union, and Chairman of Go Fuel; Leonardo Sempertegui, Normal Authorized Counsel at OPEC; and Mohammed Attaba, Senior Downstream Oil Trade Analyst at OPEC.
SANEDI performs a central function in advancing South Africa’s transition in direction of a sustainable power future. Tasked with selling inexperienced progress, power effectivity and renewable options, the Institute helps utilized analysis, pilot tasks and the combination of rising applied sciences. Present initiatives embody advancing electrical mobility and EV adoption, launching South Africa’s first family power and carbon certification program and creating suggestions to enhance electrical energy affordability and accessibility for residents.
Egypt’s Fuel & Power Affiliation additionally performs a strategic function within the nation’s power sector, specializing in pure fuel coverage, market improvement and regional cooperation. With Abu Bakr’s twin function on the Worldwide Fuel Union and TAQA Arabia, the affiliation serves as a bridge between Egyptian power stakeholders and world fuel markets, selling funding alternatives and sustainable improvement in North Africa and the broader area.
Senegal’s ST-CNSL is remitted to make sure the nation’s oil and fuel developments ship long-term worth for its residents. As Technical Secretary, Bakhoum is chargeable for overseeing native content material compliance and making certain that main tasks – together with the Sangomar Subject Growth and Higher Tortue Ahmeyim LNG undertaking – foster alternatives for native enterprises and employees. By strengthening the nation’s regulatory atmosphere, ST-CNSL ensures that Senegal stays a beautiful funding vacation spot whereas maximizing socioeconomic influence.
On the similar time, CLG – a authorized and enterprise advisory agency specializing in power and infrastructure – helps governments, buyers and operators throughout Africa in navigating advanced regulatory landscapes. With workplaces in key markets together with South Africa, Equatorial Guinea and Ghana, the agency has not too long ago expanded its work on native content material frameworks and power transition tasks, making certain that African nations maximize worth creation from pure assets whereas attracting long-term worldwide funding.
Lastly, OPEC shall be represented by Leonardo Sempertegui, Normal Authorized Counsel, and Mohammed Attaba, Senior Downstream Oil Trade Analyst, who deliver experience in regulatory frameworks, compliance and market evaluation. Their participation supplies a singular perspective on world oil markets, pricing dynamics, and the authorized and technical concerns that affect funding selections in Africa’s power sector.
“Sturdy, clear regulation stays probably the most important drivers of funding in Africa’s power business. By setting clear fiscal phrases, implementing native content material provisions and offering predictable licensing regimes, regulators create the steadiness buyers want whereas making certain long-term financial advantages for host international locations. The presence of SANEDI, ST-CNSL, CLG, EGEA and OPEC representatives at AEW 2025 highlights the central function that establishments and policymakers play in shaping Africa’s funding panorama,” states Ore Onagbesan, Program Director at AEW: Spend money on African Energies.
AEW: Spend money on African Energies is the platform of alternative for undertaking operators, financiers, know-how suppliers and authorities, and has emerged because the official place to signal offers in African power.
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