Recent amendments to South Africa’s Electricity Regulation Act have highlighted the dramatic shifts in the country’s energy landscape. The African continent and the international energy sector as a whole are undergoing substantial structural changes. These changes necessitate urgent action in three key areas: technological innovation, regulatory reform, and environmental considerations. Such measures are necessary in order to create an environment conducive to a sustainable power system that can meet the growing demand for electricity.

Moreover, this energy transition has to be achieved while balancing multiple objectives: decarbonizing the sector to combat climate change, ensuring equitable access to clean energy, and fostering new economic opportunities within the industry. This conference will provide a platform to attendees, from the region and beyond, to deliberate on subjects that expand on how we can build, transform, and adapt a sustainable power system in the energy transition on the continent.

The discussions and knowledge exchange at this conference will be between industry stakeholders: electric utilities (generation/transmission/ distribution), regional power pools, municipalities, system operators, regulators, policy makers manufacturers and suppliers, universities, standardizing bodies, research laboratories and other authorities in the field of the development of electrical systems, primarily in Africa, with a global perspective.

Preferential Subjects

Papers across all study committees have been invited and preference were given to submissions in the fields of technology, planning, operations and markets as well as those covering actual project and operational experiences with focus on the following subjects: