The highly anticipated C&I Energy + Storage Summit 2025 will return to The Maslow Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg on 4–5 November 2025, bringing together leading energy experts, financiers, regulators and corporate leaders. Among the standout features of this year’s programme are the exclusive Masterclasses, designed to equip delegates with practical tools, strategies and insights to thrive in South Africa’s rapidly transforming energy market.
These hands-on masterclasses complement the Summit’s broader agenda of keynotes, project showcases and panel debates, equipping delegates with actionable strategies to shape their organisations’ energy future.
Day 1: Financing and flexibility
- Building Bankable PPA Portfolios: Hosted by Standard Bank, with a strong focus on understanding financing models and client risk management.
- Wheeling, Flexibility & Financing: Unpacking how to structure projects that meet both corporate and lender needs.
Download the Summit programme (https://apo-opa.co/3W0gmeu)
Day 2: Energy efficiency, storage & carbon markets
- Batteries in Action: lifecycle and performance optimisation for C&I users.
- Carbon Markets & CBAM: strategies for exporters navigating EU carbon regulations.
- Energy Efficiency as a First Fuel: efficiency before investment.
Be part of the C&I Energy + Storage Summit in Johannesburg
Book your pass or apply as a hosted buyer to be part of South Africa’s premier platform for C&I energy innovation, finance and storage solutions: https://apo-opa.co/4h6QCqy.
- For delegate registration enquiries, contact Vuyisa Mfobo: Vuyisa.mfobo@wearevuk.com
- For hosted buyer application queries, contact Marcel du Toit: marcel.dutoit@wearevuka.com
Practical insights
C&I Energy + Storage Summit and Jaltech invite you to an upcoming webinar where Jonty Sacks from Jaltech, a leading solar funder, and Theo Potgieter from AFGRI, a leading agricultural services company, will unpack the simplest and most effective way to approach solar funding, as well as a deep dive into how the agricultural market is quickly adopting solar.
Webinar title: Solar funding for dummies – Approaches and speedy options
Date: Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Time: 12:00 – 13:00 SAST
Register here: https://apo-opa.co/4n0apcH
This session is tailored for solar installers/developers, commercial and industrial energy users, and landlords who want to:
- Lower electricity costs with no upfront investment.
- Access long-term price certainty in an environment of rising tariffs.
- Understand how solar funding can strengthen operations and energy security.
Africa Fact: The Malian city of Timbuktu had a 14th century population of 115,000 – 5 times larger than mediaeval London. Mansa Musa, built the Djinguerebere Mosque in the fourteenth century. There was the University Mosque in which 25,000 students studied and the Oratory of Sidi Yayia. There were over 150 Koran schools in which 20,000 children were instructed. London, by contrast, had a total 14th century population of 20,000 people.
Africa Fact: National Geographic recently described Timbuktu as the Paris of the mediaeval world, on account of its intellectual culture. According to Professor Henry Louis Gates, 25,000 university students studied there.
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