Electricity + Control August 2017

SOCIAL ENGINEERS

POWER-GEN & DistribuTECH Africa 2017 Speaking at the opening of POWER-GEN & DistribuTECH Africa 2017 on Tuesday, 18 July, at the Sandton Convention Cen- tre, Johannesburg, high-level pan-African power stakeholders acknowledged that transformation is taking place, but that the pace of change is much too slow. They urged closer collaboration and inno- vation to take power to the 600 million people in Africa who have no access to electricity, as well as to support industri- alisation across the continent.

Nigel Blackaby, Conference Director (POWER-GEN & DistribuTECH Africa), Feraye Gurel (Event Director), Leon Viljoen (Managing Director, ABB Southern Africa), Lynne Brown (Minister, Ministry of Public Enterprises, South Africa), Eskom’s new Interim Chairman, Zethembe Khoza, George Njenga, Regional Executive, Steam Power Sys- tems, Sub-Sahara Africa at GE Power South Africa, Glen Ensore (Managing Director, PennWell Corporation).

G4S Solutions (SA), Clinton Hodgson.

Toshiba Plant Systems & Services Corporation: Kenichi Kabasawa and Tsukasa Ueda.

UL Southern Africa: Nokwanda Nzimande with Contractor, Kobus Roos.

Swedish Neutral, Andreas Winter.

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