AEW 2026 opens in Cape Town with 10,000 delegates

The African Energy Chamber has announced that African Energy Week (AEW) 2026 is officially underway in Cape Town, South Africa, with over 10,000 registered delegates attending.

• The event opened on October 11, 2026 in Cape Town and includes technical workshops, the 8th Meeting of the APPO NOCs CEOs’ Forum, the Deal Room, the African Farmout Forum, and multiple forums on energy finance, upstream, downstream, and infrastructure.
• AEW 2026 also features dedicated conferences on energy, artificial intelligence, data centers and digital infrastructure through Renegade Intel, and on power-sector investment, transmission, storage, grid modernization through Power Africa Today.