The an­nu­al Trinidad & To­ba­go En­er­gy Con­fer­ence is the biggest and best at­tend­ed en­er­gy sec­tor event held lo­cal­ly.

Com­pa­nies and in­di­vid­u­als from T&T and around the world in­vest in the event to share in­for­ma­tion, seek in­sights, net­work, pro­mote their busi­ness­es and in­flu­ence the en­er­gy sec­tor ad­vo­ca­cy agen­da.

The lev­el of par­tic­i­pa­tion in the con­fer­ence is a good in­di­ca­tor of stake­hold­ers’ in­ter­est in T&T as a place to in­vest and to do busi­ness.

The con­fer­ence, which was first held al­most 40 years ago, is or­gan­ised by the En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad & To­ba­go.

Com­pa­nies and in­di­vid­u­als pur­chase del­e­gate pass­es to at­tend the con­fer­ence ses­sions, trade show ex­hi­bi­tion spaces, and var­i­ous spon­sor­ship pack­ages from the En­er­gy Cham­ber for the event.

The rev­enue col­lect­ed by the En­er­gy Cham­ber rep­re­sents a por­tion of the to­tal in­vest­ment in the con­fer­ence, as com­pa­nies will al­so pur­chase air­line tick­ets, ho­tel rooms and ser­vices from many dif­fer­ent ven­dors to sup­port their par­tic­i­pa­tion.

Nev­er­the­less, the to­tal rev­enue re­ceived by the En­er­gy Cham­ber re­lat­ed to the event is a good proxy of com­pa­nies’ and in­di­vid­u­als’ in­ter­est in the T&T en­er­gy sec­tor.

Rev­enue for the con­fer­ence had hit a pre­vi­ous peak in 2015 and then dropped dur­ing the pe­ri­od of low com­mod­i­ty prices. It in­creased steadi­ly un­til 2020, when the con­fer­ence took place just be­fore the glob­al COVID-19 pan­dem­ic shut­downs.

Rev­enue dropped dra­mat­i­cal­ly in 2021 when the en­tire event was vir­tu­al and on­ly par­tial­ly re­cov­ered in 2022, when many del­e­gates were still un­cer­tain about in-per­son events. It has since re­cov­ered to pre-pan­dem­ic lev­els.

The 2025 edi­tion of the T&T En­er­gy Con­fer­ence was the most suc­cess­ful ever, with to­tal rev­enue sur­pass­ing the pre­vi­ous record year of 2020.

Ex­hi­bi­tion spaces at the tradeshow sold-out ear­ly and de­mand for in-per­son del­e­gate seats out­stripped sup­ply, with peo­ple un­for­tu­nate­ly hav­ing to be turned away. This in­di­cates an in­creased lev­el of con­fi­dence in, and op­ti­mism about, the fu­ture of the T&T’s en­er­gy sec­tor from in­vestors and oth­er busi­ness­es.