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The South African Department of Energy will once again support the annual African Utility Week conference and exhibition as host ministry. The event runs from 21-24 May in Johannesburg and is the largest utility services gathering on the continent.

The solar industry has come far within the last few years and is now able to compete with traditional sources of energy in Indonesia and the Philippines says Sean Nakatani, Senior Manager Solar at global technology giant Tokyo Electron Limited.

South Africa is not only a competitive mobile money market, but is a good representation of the different business models that are transpiring from banks, MNOs*, third party operators, social media and online retailers and payment providers.

South Africa is leading the way in launching mobile health (mHealth) services with some of the most successful and best known mHealth initiatives having been developed in this country.

A renewed scramble for African resources has led to the continent becoming an arena for strategic and geopolitical competition which requires Africa to ready itself for possible multi-lateral conflicts within the next 10-15 years.

Asian countries are overtaking developed ones in terms of spending on renewable and cleaner fossil power projects says Daria La Valle, the conference manager of Clean Power Asia.

Rising energy prices and an ever-increasing pressure to conform to international environmental and climate change demands are some of the main challenges facing big industry in South Africa.

Eskom has confirmed that its CEO Brian Dames will deliver the opening address at the annual African Utility Week conference and exhibition on 22 May in Johannesburg.

The technological explosion of the past three decades has brought about many advantages. Some of these include an increased ease in the way people are doing business. However, there is also a flip side to these advances.

Spintelligent, a global information provider has launched a new global digital portal that publishes global electric energy information, Engerati.