Events

The 2nd edition of Africa Mining Week (AMW 2026), held under the theme 'Mining The Future: Unearthing Africa's Full Mineral Value', addressing pressing and transformative issues in global and African mining, including responsible, sustainable, and technology-driven mining.

Africa's premier wind energy conference and exhibition hosted by SAWEA, bringing together stakeholders from across the wind energy value chain under the theme 'Implementing Watt Matters: Policy. Power. People.' — covering policy, investment, grid infrastructure, project development, localisation and skills.

A two-day conference bringing together researchers, trade unionists, policymakers, manufacturers, SMEs, and civil society from across Africa to examine how the continent's energy transition can support local manufacturing, decent work, and sustainable livelihoods, drawing on research from Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa.

South Africa's climate and energy transition is occurring against a backdrop of energy security challenges, economic growth imperatives, high unemployment, infrastructure constraints, and increasing climate risks. National policy increasingly emphasizes that climate action and energy transition must support economic competitiveness, industrial development, job creation, and social inclusion. The country's Just Energy Transition (JET) agenda seeks to balance decarbonisation objectives with developmental priorities, ensuring that communities, workers, and industries dependent on the current energy system are not left behind.

A week-long policy training event co-hosted by the IEA and South Africa's Department of Electricity and Energy, offering five parallel courses on energy efficiency in Buildings, Appliances, Industry, Transport, and Indicators & Evaluation, aimed at policymakers from energy ministries and supporting institutions across Africa and emerging economies.

A focused two-day business summit for commercial and industrial energy users covering wheeling, power purchase agreements, battery energy storage, grid access, tariff structures, financing, market reform and energy resilience in South Africa's evolving electricity market.

A 2-day exhibition and conference focused on residential, C&I and utility solar and storage projects, featuring presentations, panel discussions, networking, and an exhibition of global solar and energy storage brands.

African Energy Week (AEW) is an energy, oil and gas industry conference and exhibition event held in Cape Town, bringing together delegates for sessions, presentations, networking receptions, and side events.