2025
Free Workshops
Energy Hub
Investment Hub

Hlonela Gesha
Renewable energy project development and management team
City of Cape Town
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 11h45 – 12h15
TOPIC: City of Cape Town BESS Roadmap

Jaco Human
Executive Officer
IGUA-SA
DATE: Tuesday, 4 March 2025
TIME: 14h00 – 14h30
TOPIC: Navigating the South African Gas Cliff
DESCRIPTION:
As the transition to green energy sources continues, battery storage plays a crucial role in managing the variability of renewable energy production. Energy storage offers flexibility across a range of applications, including energy arbitrage. The City is actively working on implementing battery energy storage, with the first pilot project expected to be completed by 2027.
DESCRIPTION:
Navigating the South African Gas Cliff explores the critical need for an industry-led gas aggregator to secure reliable, affordable natural gas supply amid declining domestic resources. Spearheaded by IGUA-SA, this initiative fosters collaboration among stakeholders to stabilize the energy landscape, ensure industrial sustainability, and support South Africa’s economic resilience and growth.

Discussion hosted by EWSETA and GreenCape
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 12h15 – 12h45
TOPIC: Launching PowerUp – the renewable energy demand-led skills facilitation hub

Riccardo Pucci
Marketing Manager
The Standard Transfer Specification (STS)
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 11h30 – 12h00
TOPIC: STS Interoperability – Prepayment Metering, Made Simple
DESCRIPTION:
Introducing PowerUp, a central online platform to address skills priorities in the renewable energy sector. PowerUp is a demand-led skills intervention embedded in the South African Renewable Energy Masterplan. It is built as a digital skills facilitation hub between industry, PSETs, SETAs and social compact partners.
DESCRIPTION:
The Standard Transfer Specification (STS) is the globally recognized open standard for prepayment systems, offering seamless interoperability, effortless scalability, and free secure key management services. Supporting both offline and smart metering, STS enables reliable, adaptable energy infrastructure, facilitating secure transactions and future-ready solutions for diverse energy networks worldwide.


Tech Talk Zone

Dr. Giw Zanganeh
VP of Energy and Mining
Tether
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 12h15 – 12h45
TOPIC: Monetizing stranded power wtih Bitcoin Mining

Riccardo Pucci
Marketing Manager
The Standard Transfer Specification (STS)
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 11h30 – 12h00
TOPIC: STS Interoperability – Prepayment Metering, Made Simple
DESCRIPTION:
In this talk we will discover how bitcoin mining can enable Africa’s largest energy players to monetize their stranded and excess energy and provide alternative revenue streams to diversify an energy company’s income source and make it more resilient.
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