The Energy Transition Track lays the foundation for new investments across Africa’s energy value chain by tackling pressing topics from clean cooking solutions to inclusive participation to green hydrogen, carbon capture and logistics
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, June 23, 2025/APO Group/ --
The African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies conference – taking place on September 29 to October 3 in Cape Town – is organized under a mandate to make energy poverty history by 2030. As such, the event connects financiers with African projects, promoting energy development across the entire energy sector and its value chain. A dedicated Energy Transition Track at this year’s event offers attendees insight into the continent’s energy transition strategy, with panel discussions covering a series of topics, from natural gas as a clean cooking fuel to carbon capture and storage solutions to green hydrogen and renewable energy rollout.

African Energy Week (AEW) 2025 Promotes Africa-Centric Energy Transition with Dedicated Program Track
AEW: Invest in African Energies is the platform of choice for project operators, financiers, technology providers and government, and has emerged as the official place to sign deals in African energy. Visit www.AECWeek.com for more information about this exciting event.
With over 900 million people living without access to clean cooking solutions in Africa, many countries are adopting bold strategies to advance the adoption of natural gas products such as LPG. Kenya, for example is rolling out LPG expansion, electric cooking and bioethanol alternatives with support from private sector investment, Tanzania is integrating clean cooking solutions into its national electrification plan and broader energy transition strategy while Ghana has adopted a multi-pronged approach, enhancing LPG affordability and scalability. The AEW: Invest in African Energies 2025 Energy Transition Track will feature panel discussions focused on Africa’s burgeoning LPG market. Sessions include From Firewood to Freedom: Promoting Clean Cooking in Africa; Monetizing LPG to Enhance the Value of the Barrel in Africa’s Inland Markets; and Gas-to-Liquids Market Opportunities in Africa.
Given the pressing energy access challenges faced across the continent, Africa has long-advocated for an energy transition strategy that takes into account the continent’s energy and climate needs. In this regard, many countries are pursuing a just transition, which utilizes a variety of solutions from low-carbon oil to non-associated gas to renewable energy and integrated power systems. According to the International Energy Agency, meeting Africa’s energy demand will require annual investments to more than double by 2030, reaching $240 billion annually. The Energy Transition Track at AEW: Invest in African Energies 2025 not only offers a platform to discuss Africa’s just transition strategy, but lays out strategic investment prospects across the entire energy value chain. Sessions include Just Energy Transition Dialogue: Harnessing Africa’s Resource Wealth to Establish Energy Sovereignty; Forging the Path for a Green Hydrogen Economy: Shifting from Planning to Meeting Global Market Demands; and Overcoming Infrastructure Gaps: Innovations in Road, Rail and Transport Connectivity Across Africa.
The AEW: Invest in African Energies 2025 Energy Transition Track goes beyond promoting investments in energy projects to include strategic sessions on local content, inclusive participation and collaborative leadership. With a rapidly growing population, increased urbanization and soon-to-be the world’s largest workforce, Africa requires strategic commitments by governments and companies to accelerate capacity building, skills development and inclusive work practices. By 2050, Africa’s population is projected to increase to 2.5 billion people. As such, local content will serve as a catalyst for sustainable and equitable development. During the event, sessions will address these topics, including Energy Security in Africa: Why Women’s Participation in Africa’s Resource Governance Matters; From Start-Ups to Scale-Ups: Why SMEs are Africa’s Game Changers; and Collaborative Leadership: Operator Strategies for Local Content Development.
The Energy Transition Track will also feature an Invest in Uganda session, which offers exclusive insight into the country’s $10 billion energy portfolio, comprising a mix of hydrocarbon, infrastructure and renewable energy projects. The discussion will unpack how supportive policies, a stable regulatory environment and untapped resources have made the country an attractive market to invest in. Beyond panel discussions, the track will also feature a series of Fireside Chats. These sessions aim to provide insight into the respective investment strategies of various companies, with discussions paving the way for collaborations and deals.
“AEW: Invest in African Energies 2025 takes place under a mandate to make energy poverty history, and as such, advocates for a just energy transition which encompasses the development of a variety of energy sources. The Energy Transition Track serves as a catalyst for this goal by uniting players from the renewable energy, natural gas, regulatory and infrastructure sectors to discuss strategies for securing investment and advancing projects in Africa,” states Verner Ayukegba, Senior Vice President, African Energy Chamber.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Energy Chamber.
This kind of raid on citizens in the middle of the night is a new development that will just instigate public anger and enemity among the people of Burco as a whole. Suspicion on one's activities with regard to public peaceful demonstration is not a crime or a conspiracy against the cuurent administration. This arrest has a connection with past occurrence when Hirsi Gab was a rebel during UDUB administration. Time will only tell whether revenge will set things straight or not.
Wadani has foolishly exposed itself on HCT today that it had organised the recent illegal riot in Burco where shops were looted and incohere hsenct lives were lost. This is a sad news for all the peace loving people in Somaliland.
I thought they are more smarter than this?
Burco people= if this head of gang was your former deputy governer of your city, you must have been a hell. i feel sorry for you. I was listening from some of our websites that a Sultan who, was trying to create a real war among people in Burco, his name was Cunaayo, if iam right. This is not a Sultan as the Sultans are known to be part of Somaliland Solutions and he mus have been the second man in command of the gang who was claimning to be Sultan.
I don't know which tribe Mr. samatar is from, but the government is 100% wrong this time. This is a real joke. So what if people protest? He can lead the protest if he want. You can't arrest him just because one of the protesters chose to act foolishly. Go after who killed the civilian. Do your work and investigate. That is why you all getting paid with tax money.
I have a feeling that this government is going to cause us civil war. It is going to distroy everything we built.
Illahow umadda u sahal, Amin.
Why not arrest the man in daylight ?why in the middle of night? this government is wrong and they should be voted out real soon before they destroy Somaliland.
I think the govt. handled the matter in a poor manner. Freedom of speech, association & opposition is a must in a democratic state like Somaliland, but, the Police leadership in Somaliland is lacking. I don't think the president has found the right commander yet. Arrests in the middle of the night, have we not learnt from the past? If someone has a case to answer, then let us do it in the right way. I get the feeling that the problems in Burco is based on differences btw the two majority communities and it's time for the elders to get involved. We have always solved issues like these in calm manner, let us not stray from that formula.
Badly handled case in my view. The Police Chief has to confess the mistake done by his commander in Burao to raid the man's house at mid night. Raid is OK when you dealing with terrorists and the suspect of high treason, but the former governors case was handled badly and should be apologized publicly by Warancadde and Fadal.
RRU force is something we need, but operations they take must be specific and without destruction at home they search. I have written an article about this force few week back, and I don't approve they way they deal with their public.