Power, grids and regional interconnection
Generation, transmission, distribution, utilities, storage and the infrastructure required for reliable cross-border electricity trade.
Intra-African Energy Trade & Investment Forum
Connecting Africa’s energy markets to capital, technology and opportunity.
IAETIF connects African energy projects, governments, investors and technology partners to advance bankable opportunities, cross-border trade and long-term industrial growth.
Institutional foundation
IAETIF is an initiative of the Africa Energy Technology Centre. The forum is AETC’s dedicated platform for advancing energy trade, investment, technology partnerships and market-facing commercial engagement across Africa.
Discover AETC →The platform
Discover how IAETIF worksFrom dialogue to deals.
Developed through AETC, IAETIF turns high-level engagement into commercial momentum: clearer opportunities, better-matched partners and a more direct route to execution.
- Curated decision-makers
Governments, investors, project sponsors and industry leaders brought together around specific opportunities. - Market-facing engagement
A roadshow model that takes African priorities directly into relevant capital, technology and trade ecosystems. - Commercial intelligence
Focused context that helps participants understand markets, evaluate opportunities and identify credible partners. - Partnerships built for delivery
Introductions and working sessions shaped to move commitments toward mandates, transactions and projects.
The commercial logic
Five connections. One integrated energy economy.
Each IAETIF engagement is built around a simple objective: connect what Africa can deliver with what its markets need to grow.
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Projects → Capital
Direct, purposeful engagement around opportunities that can move forward.
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Businesses → Markets
Direct, purposeful engagement around opportunities that can move forward.
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Technology → Opportunity
Direct, purposeful engagement around opportunities that can move forward.
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Investors → Projects
Direct, purposeful engagement around opportunities that can move forward.
Countries → Strategic partnerships
How to participate
Choose the role you want to play.
IAETIF creates different entry points for project sponsors, capital providers, technology companies and strategic partners—without losing sight of the shared commercial objective.
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Bring a project
Present a credible energy or infrastructure opportunity to investors, financiers, technology providers and strategic partners.
Start the conversation →02
Deploy capital
Access a curated pipeline of opportunities across power, gas, renewables, technology and enabling infrastructure.
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Enter new markets
Connect your technology, equipment or specialist capability with governments, operators and project developers.
Start the conversation →04
Partner with IAETIF
Support a roadshow or the wider platform through strategic partnership, market engagement and thought leadership.
Start the conversation →Focus areas
Across the energy systems that power trade and industry.
The platform spans established resources, emerging technologies and the infrastructure that connects them to productive markets.
Oil, gas and LNG
Investment, infrastructure, services and regional value chains across established and emerging hydrocarbon markets.
Renewables and new energy
Solar, wind, green hydrogen, distributed energy and the technologies accelerating affordable, lower-emissions power.
Why now
Africa’s opportunity is continental. The routes to capital are global.
Intra-African trade reached US$220.3 billion in 2024, while private clean-energy investment on the continent rose to almost US$40 billion. Yet investment remains uneven and the infrastructure required for deeper regional trade is still being built.
IAETIF sits at that intersection: market integration, energy investment, technology deployment and the partnerships required to translate opportunity into delivery.
Perspectives
Context for decisions that move markets.
Evidence-led analysis on the capital, trade and industrial questions shaping Africa’s energy economy.
Investment
Closing Africa’s energy investment gap requires better routes from opportunity to execution
Capital is moving, but unevenly. The next phase of Africa’s energy growth depends on investable pipelines, credible market access and partnerships built for delivery.
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Trade
AfCFTA and the next generation of African energy trade corridors
Regional integration creates a larger market for African power, fuels, equipment, services and technology—but infrastructure and commercial coordination must follow.
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Industrialisation
Energy access is industrial policy: powering firms, jobs and productive markets
The strongest case for energy investment is not only the connection itself, but the economic activity that reliable power makes possible.
Read insightWho we connect
A platform for the institutions that shape outcomes.
GovernmentsInvestorsEnergy companiesFinancial institutionsDevelopment finance institutionsTechnology companiesProject developersUtilitiesInfrastructure companiesManufacturersEntrepreneursTrade and investment agencies
Bring the right opportunity into the right room.
Tell us what you are looking to finance, build, supply or enter—and which market matters most.