Duncan Abel

Head of Commercial

Envusa Energy

Biography

Duncan Abel is the Head of Commercial at Envusa Energy, an energy trader jointly owned by Anglo American and EDF Renewables.  Prior to joining Anglo American in 2022 Duncan spent 11 years at Nedbank funding renewable energy and climate change projects

Envusa aims to generate and trade clean and reliable energy from a portfolio of renewable energy assets, across Southern Africa, having developed a unique and market leading commercial structure that is flexible and scalable and optimally matches generation from portfolios of RE assets with client demand. The commercial structure enabled the development of a first-of-its-kind portfolio funding structure that similarly scales within a rapidly evolving energy landscape and reduces risk for our funding partners.

Envusa’s first tranche of projects, 520MW of wind and solar projects, starts generating electricity in Q4 2025, with all the energy being allocated to a portfolio of mines, smelters and processing plants located across South Africa. Construction of the second tranche will begin later in 2025 and we will continue to add new projects to the portfolio annually to meet the growing RE demand from existing and new clients.