Energy as an Infrastructure Enabler: Unlocking the Renewables Opportunity for Powering the Minerals Value Chain.
Roundtable 1: Energy as an Infrastructure Enabler: Unlocking the Renewables Opportunity for Powering the Minerals Value Chain.
Partners: SEforALL, Council for Critical Minerals Development in the Global South, Critical Minerals Africa Group (CMAG)
Date & Time: Wednesday, 11 February 2026 | 09:00–10:30
Location Cape Town, South Africa
Website: Event site.
Access to reliable, affordable and sufficient energy will underpin countries’ ambitions to attract investment in local beneficiation and value addition projects. Energy is a key infrastructure enabler, and renewables offer an increasingly cost-effective, abundantly available and environmentally sustainable source of energy for many countries in Africa. With industry’s growing sensitivity to ESG and efforts to develop and contract renewable supply, energy sector supply-side and infrastructure planning, and regulatory frameworks need to account for growing demand and build enabling conditions for renewable energy supply to be effectively integrated into minerals production and value addition processes.
The roundtable will bring together practical examples from the continent on innovative policy, regulatory and delivery model approaches that enable a shift towards strengthening renewable energy supply for mining and minerals value addition, while also nurturing a domestic clean technology industry. The discussions will highlight suggested actions to scale-up investment in renewable energy projects in the mining sector, including generation and national and regional transmission infrastructure.
Contact for expressions of interest:
darryn.allan@seforall.org
Website: Event site.
Access to reliable, affordable and sufficient energy will underpin countries’ ambitions to attract investment in local beneficiation and value addition projects. Energy is a key infrastructure enabler, and renewables offer an increasingly cost-effective, abundantly available and environmentally sustainable source of energy for many countries in Africa. With industry’s growing sensitivity to ESG and efforts to develop and contract renewable supply, energy sector supply-side and infrastructure planning, and regulatory frameworks need to account for growing demand and build enabling conditions for renewable energy supply to be effectively integrated into minerals production and value addition processes.
The roundtable will bring together practical examples from the continent on innovative policy, regulatory and delivery model approaches that enable a shift towards strengthening renewable energy supply for mining and minerals value addition, while also nurturing a domestic clean technology industry. The discussions will highlight suggested actions to scale-up investment in renewable energy projects in the mining sector, including generation and national and regional transmission infrastructure.
Contact for expressions of interest:
darryn.allan@seforall.org
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