African Energy Clearing House
The neutral settlement counterparty for African energy markets.
African Energy Clearing House (AECH) is a neutral service provider to energy exchanges, thereby supporting the efficient settlement of energy trades across African energy markets. We seek to facilitate trusted transactions, reduce counterparty risk, and help create the conditions for a more connected, transparent, and reliable energy trading ecosystem.
As Africa's energy landscape evolves, AECH seeks to provide all energy exchanges with access to market infrastructure and trusted relationships to enable increased liquidity, reduced costs and improved price discovery.
How we do business
African Energy Clearing House (AECH) provides the infrastructure to energy trading exchanges to improve efficiency, transparency, and scalability of energy markets in Africa.
We develop central counterparties to sit between energy market participants - including generators, traders, off-takers and financial institutions to reduce counterparty risk, improve collateral efficiency, and simplify market participation.
By acting as a neutral layer between buyers and sellers, the model enables:
• Netting of positions across participants
• Centralised collateral and margin management
• Streamlined settlement processes
• Reduced reliance on bilateral credit structures
This approach lowers barriers to entry, improves liquidity, and supports more effective price discovery in both physical and financial energy markets.
The model will facilitate building a forward price curve for energy markets:
• Spot markets (including day-ahead mechanisms)
• Derivatives (CFDs, futures, swaps) and standardised bilateral transactions
Our Services
We provide a comprehensive suite of trading solutions designed to bridge the gap between renewable energy producers and offtakers across Africa.
Counterparty Infrastructure Design
Clearing and settlement frameworks
Collateral and margin optimisation
Stakeholder alignment (banks, regulators, market participants)
Meet Our Leadership Team
The experts supporting Africa's energy transition through innovation in energy market clearing solutions.
Garth Gruebel
Chair
As the founder and former CEO of Energy Exchange, and former CEO of Bond Exchange of South Africa, Garth combines financial markets and energy backgrounds. Previous experience at Eskom Treasury, Nedbank and as a partner at Deloitte.
Garth is completing a doctorate in electrical engineering with an interest in virtual power plants, smart-grids and integration of renewables, and power quality.
Tandi Haslam
lead executive
Tandi is an entrepreneur and follows opportunities in the disruptive tech and green-energy space. She is happiest focusing her energies in start up management and the commercialising of products or opportunities which have high social impact value.
Tandi is a CA(SA) and CFA Charterholder.
Mark Taylor
Executive
Mark has 40 years of experience including legal practice, banking, family offices where he led new investment evaluations and led the turnaround of a public company.
Mark has worked in Africa, Turkey, the Netherlands and the UK, building businesses as an entrepreneur, and raising capital.
Bhanu Pillay
executive
Bhanu is a chemical engineer (Imperial College London) specialising in energy systems, optimisation, and techno-economic analysis.
His expertise centers on developing structured mathematical models for complex commercial and operational problems, integrating quantitative methods, risk analysis, and financial logic to support investment, trading, and market-design decisions.