POWER-GEN Africa 2012

POWER-GEN Africa is set to become the region’s premier conference programme dedicated to the power industry. It will also provide the perfect opportunity to mix with high flying industry leaders and keep abreast of the latest developments in the Sub-Saharan region in the field of power and energy.

The inaugural POWER-GEN Africa will provide comprehensive coverage of the power needs, resources, and issues facing the electricity generation industries across Sub-Saharan Africa. Global attention is being paid to Africa’s power requirements as the continent continues to experience rapid growth and development, driving the need for more widespread and reliable electricity. With POWER-GEN Africa’s conference and exhibition focusing on all aspects of the power industry and bringing together the world’s leading power equipment suppliers with those developing power infrastructure in this dynamic region of the world, this is one event you cannot afford to miss.

POWER-GEN Africa will be co-located with the newly launched Renewable Energy World Africa in 2012. This will include a Renewable Energy World Pavilion within the Exhibit Floor, as well as a Conference track dedicated to Renewable Energy.

With reserve margins virtually non-existent in the Sub-Saharan Africa region, leading to blackout and load shedding scenarios, the region faces the real prospect of inadequate energy infrastructure acting as a brake on current and future economic growth. In tackling these problems, the region also faces a great shortage in the area of trained engineering professionals.

POWER-GEN Africa targets those who work in the utility and private power sectors, engineering and commercial personnel from the equipment manufacturing and consulting fields. POWER-GEN Africa addresses professionals from energy intensive industries with responsibility for ensuring power supply, and officials and ministers from the national and regional political spheres who are tasked with energy policy.

The three day event will feature a three-track conference and an exhibition with many of the leading suppliers from both the International and African power sectors demonstrating their latest technologies.