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A brand new study into the future of African power utilities and the challenges they face has highlighted four possible scenarios of what the continent's energy sector will look like by the year 2030.

The upcoming third edition of the Nigeria Mining Week in Abuja in October provides access to all the practical knowledge, valuable connections and decision makers for would-be and established mining companies in the country.

Access to energy and the speed at which the region is achieving this is a strong theme of the 20th edition of the Future Energy East Africa conference and exhibition which returns to the KICC in Nairobi from 12-13 September.

The inaugural Farm-Tech Expo Kenya outdoor farming expo is taking place at the host partner KALRO in Naivasha from 12-13 September, organised by multi-award-winning organisers Spintelligent.

FBNBank DRC SA is a returning diamond sponsor of DRC Mining Week, taking place in Lubumbashi from 13-15 June.

"Indian utility vendors and services will find a huge market and scope in Africa, especially in South Africa's energy sector" says Dr. Rajeev Singh, the Director General and CEO of the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

The fifth annual African Utility Week Industry Awards in Cape Town received nominations from far and wide for the 12 different categories celebrating excellence in the energy and water industries.

African Utility Week has announced that Lucy Electric, a longstanding partner of the event, will be the exclusive diamond sponsor at this year's exhibition and conference in Cape Town from 15-17 May.

The Lubumbashi-based non-profit BUMI is DRC Mining Week's project of choice as social responsibility outreach programme. Currently BUMI provides global care to 150 children.

Approximately seven million prepaid electricity meters in South Africa need to be reset before November 2024 as the system that runs the credit tokens will run out of numbers at this time and all existing meters will stop accepting credit tokens.