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Eskom Chief Executive Brian Dames will once again deliver the keynote address during this year’s opening session of African Utility Week in Cape Town on 14 May.

Leadership in education, technology in the classroom and STEM education are some of the pressing issues that will be focused on at the annual African Education Week and Career Indaba taking place in Johannesburg from 19-22 June this year.

The new GET FiT investment mechanism which brings private and public investors together is one of the updates featured during the Investment & Finance track of the upcoming African Utility Week conference and expo in Cape Town in May.

Global events giant Clarion has launched a training division which will address learning and development needs in the oil & gas, utilities, telecoms and mobile money industries across five continents.

Ten lucky graduates recently started a unique, yearlong internship programme at Spintelligent, a leading conference and exhibition organiser based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Ghana had the political will to envision electrification as a national priority and catalyst for economic development says Engineer Andrew T. Barfour, Project Coordinator at the Ghana Energy Development and Access Project.

The brand new PRISMA European Capacity Platform, BP’s Vice President for Shah Deniz, Al Cook, and Dr Jonathan Stern of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, were honoured at the annual European Gas Conference Awards in Vienna this week.

The annual East African Power Industry Convention (EAPIC) has secured the support of Kenya’s Vision 2030.

BP’s Vice President for Shah Deniz, Al Cook, Gasunie’s CEO Paul van Gelder and Trans Adriatic Pipeline’s Managing Director Kjetil Tungland are the finalists for the coveted Executive of the Year Award at the European Gas Conference in Vienna.

More than 200 industry experts will gather in Vienna in January for the third European Unconventional Gas Summit to discuss the future for shale gas in all key EU countries and debate the main exploration and production challenges.