2018 – Issue 1
Issues
ESI Africa Edition 1, 2018
ESI Africa Issue 1 2018 delivers expert-led articles on a range of topics such as the impact of technology advancements in substation automation and...
Finance and Policy
Evaluating Africa’s largest hydropower projects
Africa’s planned hydropower potential holds nearly 27GW of electricity; however, each project must traverse complex social and environmental challenges, coupled with the economics of...
Business and markets
Mobile money transforming electricity payment
The use of technology to transact in the utility service space is elevating the electricity market by influencing demand for power through the ease...
Energy Efficiency
Powering Zimbabwe’s lifting assets
A case study addressing the modernisation of lifting equipment circuitry, written by Shelton Munyaradzi Muzembe, an electronic engineer with a bias towards automation and...
Finance and Policy
Politics, if ignored, can put your electricity supply markets in peril
Late 2017 into early 2018 could go down in history as one of the most newsworthy periods in a long time in Africa’s political,...
Africa
Blockchain in the energy landscape
Could blockchain shape the future of decentralised energy? Pierre Telep, Renewable Energy Senior Specialist at Green Climate Fund, looks into the Internet of Energy.
Crypto...
Africa
Five African Utility Week advisory board members speak out
Advisory board members of the 18th annual African Utility Week – a gathering of over 7,500 attendees from more than 90 countries taking place...
Business and markets
Utility automation and control – it’s not your daddy’s SCADA
With the evolution of Africa’s electricity industry, utilities are adding more smart devices and automation to make smarter decisions, writes Mlungisi Mkhwanazi, Director of...
