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Liesel Kassier is a Senior Business Development Manager at Lyra Energy, where she works with South Africa’s mining, manufacturing, and export-exposed industrial sectors on the shift from passive electricity buyers to active market participants. An economist by background, she focuses on the intersection of energy strategy, carbon exposure, and trade competitiveness, helping clients navigate everything from the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to South Africa’s evolving wheeling framework and the rollout of the Wholesale Electricity Market (SAWEM). A regular commentator on South Africa’s energy transition, Kassier has spoken widely on how mining and industrial operators can use contracting and portfolio design to manage cost, carbon, and operational risk as the market liberalises. At the EIUG / C+I Summit, she brings a business development lens on how energy-intensive users can move beyond simply buying megawatts toward bankable, audit-ready decarbonisation.