Calendar of International Trade Programs and Events

Sector: Clean Technologies

Market Region: Middle East and Africa

Date: May 18, 2026 to May 22, 2026

The Government of Ontario is organizing a Cleantech Export Business Mission to Enlit Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. 

Ontario delegates will participate in B2B meetings organized by regional trade commissioners and trade show staff at Enlit Africa, and networking events with senior executives and decision-makers at African companies. Trade commissioners based in South Africa will arrange sessions on the country’s cleantech sector and the overall African market. Delegates will also gain conference and trade show floor access and potential participation in a relevant site visit. Exhibitor space in an Ontario Government booth will not be included in the trade mission. 

Mission delegates will participate in the 5th edition of Enlit Africa, formerly African Utility Week and POWERGEN Africa, a platform for Africa’s power, energy, and water sectors. The event addresses energy access, water resilience, sustainability, and infrastructure challenges. The most recent version attracted 7,234 attendees, 250 exhibitors, and 1,692 companies, including 35 African utility CEOs. Enlit Africa also featured 411 C-level executives, more than 1,300 directors and VPs, and 2,300 engineers, technicians, specialists, and senior managers. Top attending African countries included South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Kenya, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Liberia, Uganda and Botswana. 

Africa’s power and water systems are under real operational pressure, with utilities and municipalities struggling to manage demand, maintain infrastructure, and sustain service delivery. Africa must rapidly scale power generation and electrification, with 600 million people still without electricity. Aging, fragmented grids with high losses require major modernization. Moreover, severe water scarcity and stressed municipal systems are driving investment in key technologies to improve resilience and infrastructure.  

The mission will help Ontario increase the number of exporting SMEs involved in clean technologies in Africa, an important emerging economy for the province and a buyer of approximately C$1 billion in Ontario exports. 

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