2025
Free Workshops
Energy Hub
Investment Hub
Kgomotso Setlhapelo
Chairman
SAIEE
DATE: Tuesday, 4 March 2025
TIME: 10h00 – 10h30
TOPIC: Modernizing Utility Telecommunications for Enhanced Operational Technology
Akshar Rampath
Founder
Silver Spectrum Solutions
DATE: Tuesday, 4 March 2025
TIME: 10h45 – 11h15
TOPIC: Beyond the Sky: How Drone Technology is Powering Africa’s Energy Future
DESCRIPTION:
This topic explores the role of Electrotechnical Department in promoting energy efficiency and sustainability within South Africa and across the African continent. With a focus on the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), the discussion will delve into how the SABS plays a pivotal role in setting and implementing lighting, electric motors and appliances standards to ensure safety, quality, and performance in line with international best practices. It will highlight the latest innovations in testing lighting, such as energy-efficient LED technologies, energy efficiency testing in electric motors and various appliances in the market, and how these advancements can contribute to reducing energy consumption and costs in both commercial and residential sectors.
DESCRIPTION:
Drones are proving to be powerful tools driving innovation, efficiency, safety and sustainability in the power utility sector. This presentation highlights how drones can be practical, scalable and transformative in Africa’s energy landscape. Some of the applications that will be discussed include grid inspections, renewable energy, rural electrification, disaster recovery, construction, live maintenance, environmental monitoring, asset management, and security.
Tshepang Pheelwane
Technical Lead
SABS
DATE: Tuesday, 4 March 2025
TIME: 10h45 – 11h15
TOPIC:
Advancing Energy Efficiency Testing in South Africa and Africa (Lighting, Electric motors and Appliances Technologies)
Marvin Sepe
Senior Vice President
CTC Global Corporation
DATE: Tuesday, 4 March 2025
TIME: 11h30 – 12h00
TOPIC: Advanced Transmission Conductors – A High Impact Tool for Immediate Transmission Capacity Increase
DESCRIPTION:
This topic explores the role of Electrotechnical Department in promoting energy efficiency and sustainability within South Africa and across the African continent. With a focus on the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), the discussion will delve into how the SABS plays a pivotal role in setting and implementing lighting, electric motors and appliances standards to ensure safety, quality, and performance in line with international best practices. It will highlight the latest innovations in testing lighting, such as energy-efficient LED technologies, energy efficiency testing in electric motors and various appliances in the market, and how these advancements can contribute to reducing energy consumption and costs in both commercial and residential sectors.
DESCRIPTION:
Rapidly increasing power demands for intensive energy users such as mining, hydrogen production, vehicle charging and consumer load growth make it imperative to use the existing transmission infrastructure to its greatest potential while long-term transmission capacity is built. Advanced transmission conductors are a high impact tool for immediate benefit.
Dewan Smit
Thermal engineer
Hatch
DATE: Tuesday, 4 March 2025
TIME: 12h15 – 12h45
TOPIC:
Blending hydrogen as fuel source in gas fired power plants.
Jaco Human
Executive Officer
IGUA-SA
DATE: Tuesday, 4 March 2025
TIME: 14h00 – 14h30
TOPIC: Navigating the South African Gas Cliff
DESCRIPTION:
To meet decarbonization goals, many utilities and developers are enquiring about the ability and options for gas turbines to convert to, or blend, Hydrogen as an alternative fuel source. The conversion will require various upgrades to the existing facilities to ensure safe and reliable operation. In this presentation, Hatch applies the most recent data from our projects, vendors, and literature research to present an up-to-date analysis on the typical retrofit challenges and requirements in this field.
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.
Marvin Sepe
Senior Vice President
CTC Global Corporation
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 10h45 – 11h15
TOPIC: Advanced Transmission Conductors – A High Impact Tool for Immediate Transmission Capacity Increase
Matthew Taljaard
Subject Matter Expert, Operational Technology
Fortinet
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 10h45 – 11h15
TOPIC:
Securing the Future of Energy: Best Practices for OT Cybersecurity in Utilities Synopsis
DESCRIPTION:
Rapidly increasing power demands for intensive energy users such as mining, hydrogen production, vehicle charging and consumer load growth make it imperative to use the existing transmission infrastructure to its greatest potential while long-term transmission capacity is built. Advanced transmission conductors are a high impact tool for immediate benefit.
DESCRIPTION:
The energy sector faces rising cyber threats that jeopardize grid stability and operational resilience. This session explores industry best practices for securing OT environments, including network segmentation, zero trust architecture, and threat intelligence. Learn how Fortinet’s cybersecurity solutions provide real-time protection to safeguard critical energy infrastructure.
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
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:
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:
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.
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
Dr. Giw Zanganeh
VP of Energy and Mining
Tether
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 12h15 – 12h45
TOPIC: Monetizing stranded power wtih Bitcoin Mining
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:
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.
Corne Welgemoed
Managing Executive
Oil, Gas and Power
Biomass
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 13h00 – 13h30
TOPIC: –
Michael Kelly
Chief Advocacy Officer & Deputy Managing Director
World Liquid Gas Association
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 13h00 – 13h30
TOPIC: Africa LPG Roadmap
DESCRIPTION:
In 2024 the World Liquid Gas Association (WLGA) launched the LPG Roadmap For Africa. Created together with the global LPG industry, this Roadmap was designed to provide governments, development agencies, multi-lateral institutions, industry, and NGOs guidance on the best way to grow safe and sustainable LPG markets in sub-Saharan Africa.
DESCRIPTION:
In 2024 the World Liquid Gas Association (WLGA) launched the LPG Roadmap For Africa. Created together with the global LPG industry, this Roadmap was designed to provide governments, development agencies, multi-lateral institutions, industry, and NGOs guidance on the best way to grow safe and sustainable LPG markets in sub-Saharan Africa.
Corne Welgemoed
Managing Executive
Oil, Gas and Power
Biomass
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 13h00 – 13h30
TOPIC: –
Neeren Ramharakh
Founder and CEO
Synch Industries
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: Why Timekeeping Networks Will Define South Africa’s Future
TOPIC: Africa LPG Roadmap
DESCRIPTION:
In 2024 the World Liquid Gas Association (WLGA) launched the LPG Roadmap For Africa. Created together with the global LPG industry, this Roadmap was designed to provide governments, development agencies, multi-lateral institutions, industry, and NGOs guidance on the best way to grow safe and sustainable LPG markets in sub-Saharan Africa.
DESCRIPTION:
Time isn’t just a measurement—it’s the infrastructure enabling banking, telecoms, and energy. But what happens when time fails? Neeren Ramharakh, CEO of Synch Industries, unveils Africa’s first independent timekeeping network—secure, resilient, and built for the future. Discover why time synchronization is critical to South Africa’s digital economy and power sector.
Michael Kelly
Chief Advocacy Officer & Deputy Managing Director
World Liquid Gas Association
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 13h00 – 13h30
TOPIC: Africa LPG Roadmap
Duncan Bonnett
Director Market Access & Research
Africa House
DATE: Thursday, 6 March 2025
TIME: 12h15 – 12h45
TOPIC: Green Energy Minerals in SADC: Driver of Energy Projects?
DESCRIPTION:
In 2024 the World Liquid Gas Association (WLGA) launched the LPG Roadmap For Africa. Created together with the global LPG industry, this Roadmap was designed to provide governments, development agencies, multi-lateral institutions, industry, and NGOs guidance on the best way to grow safe and sustainable LPG markets in sub-Saharan Africa.
DESCRIPTION:
Growing exploration for green energy minerals in remote locations, along with carbon reduction requirements in key markets opens the way for clean energy sources and circularity in the mining industry.
Michael Kelly
Chief Advocacy Officer & Deputy Managing Director
World Liquid Gas Association
DATE: Wednesday, 5 March 2025
TIME: 13h00 – 13h30
TOPIC: Africa LPG Roadmap
Lester Bouah
Head: Energy One Stop Shop
DTIC
DATE: Thursday, 6 March 2025
TIME: 13h00 – 13h30
TOPIC: Enhancing Regulatory Support for Your Energy Projects
DESCRIPTION:
In 2024 the World Liquid Gas Association (WLGA) launched the LPG Roadmap For Africa. Created together with the global LPG industry, this Roadmap was designed to provide governments, development agencies, multi-lateral institutions, industry, and NGOs guidance on the best way to grow safe and sustainable LPG markets in sub-Saharan Africa.
DESCRIPTION:
- Provide an overview of the Energy One Stop Shop (mandate and responsibilities)
- Progress and Performance to date
- EOSS Technical Working Group, its members and roles
- EOSS Interventions and mechanisms to unlock regulatory bottlenecks
