About the Conference

Electricity wheeling – the use of existing grid infrastructure to transmit power from independent producers to end users – is a vital mechanism for expanding access to renewable energy and improving grid resilience in South Africa. Yet, despite growing demand from the private sector and municipal stakeholders, wheeling remains constrained by fragmented legislation, underdeveloped tariff structures and limited implementation frameworks.

The 5th Annual Electricity Wheeling Conference will explore the evolving role of wheeling in South Africa’s just energy transition. Building on the outcomes and recommendations of the 2025 conference, the 2026 edition will highlight the ongoing work of the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA) in shaping a more open and competitive electricity market. It will also focus on regulatory alignment across municipal and national levels, tariff standardisation, infrastructure investment and the integration of digital technologies to support more efficient wheeling transactions.

Conference participants will hear from a diverse group of speakers, including representatives from government, Eskom, independent power producers, regulators, financiers and legal experts. Through panel discussions, case studies and strategic dialogue, the conference will highlight current barriers to wheeling uptake and identify solutions for scaling up this mechanism to support South Africa’s energy security, decarbonisation goals and economic development.

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The 2026 Conference will address technical, regulatory and market design challenges associated with the implementation and scaling up of electricity wheeling in South Africa. Drawing on industry feedback and recent developments, the following topics will be explored:

Unlocking municipal wheeling: success stories, standardised agreements and lessons learned
Tariff reform and cost reflectivity: designing transparent, bankable wheeling tariffs
Virtual wheeling: digital platforms, billing models and enabling regulatory shifts
Role of the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA) in market design and grid access
Infrastructure bottlenecks and investment: accelerating transmission build-out to support decentralised generation
Electricity wheeling and carbon markets: integrating battery storage, arbitrage and emissions-linked instruments
Public-private partnerships for wheeling infrastructure: structuring, funding and risk allocation
Legal and compliance frameworks: wheeling contracts, licensing and environmental obligations
Wheeling in the context of power trading and aggregation: evolving roles of traders and aggregators
Financing wheeling projects: unlocking capital through blended finance, green bonds and development finance
Civil society and end-user perspectives: energy access, affordability and consumer protection
Regional perspectives: how wheeling is evolving in neighbouring SADC markets and what South Africa can learn

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Date: 16 - 17 April 2026

Venue: Cape Town, South Africa

Theme:

Unlocking Access and Efficiency: Accelerating Electricity Wheeling through Market Reform and Infrastructure Investment

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SPECIAL VALID - DEC 31 2025

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Speakers

Prof Richard Walls

Clyde Becker

Renay Sewpersad

Bertrand Gertzen

Carlo Kuhn

Dirk Streicher

Dr. Marika du Plessis, PrEng, PhD

Dineo Matlou

Webber Marais

Adriaan van Wyk

Ryno van Wyk

Dr Antonio Cicione (PrEng, PhD, BEng, FPSRD)

Richard Goodland

Karel Roodt

Kobus vd Merwe

Ferdi Jansen

Terence Ewers

Innocent Masekoa

Riaan Furstenburg

David Szöke

Sifiso Zola Mtshali

Steven Freudiger