South African Energy Minister H.E. Hon. Tina Joemat-Pettersson joins Ministries of Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique in Maputo, Mozambiqe

Taken from an interview with Southern Africa Times..

South African Energy Minister H.E. Hon. Tina Joemat-Pettersson joins Ministries of Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique to support EnergyNet’s regional summit in Maputo next month and will address investor questions on regional cooperation and South Africa’s supporting role within the SADC.

Additionally the ‘African Forum for Utility Regulators (AFUR)’ has provided its backing of the meeting with ten heads of regional regulation bodies attending. Regulators will contribute publically on the agenda as well as use this time to debate privately a deeper more integrated strategy to support private sector engagement and public sector needs.

In addition DBSA, World Bank, OPIC, IFC, DBSA and AFC are all backing the project focused working group, which is an extension of EnergyNet’s long standing 14 year partnership with Mozambique and these backbone investors.

“Having worked with the Mozambique government for 14 years now, we understand the landscape and the role the country can play regionally, therefore when a number of our private and public sector partners suggested we expand our offering to focus on energy and infrastructure projects regionally, it seemed the right move considering the rapidly changing role of SADC and SAPP to deliver greater  regional integration.

Excitingly the Project Advisory Unit was recently established to deliver  large scale energy and infrastructure projects in the SADC region in partnership with World Bank.  These project will be presented at the meeting for the first time and we expect that will provide unique  opportunities for investors.  Now more than ever, it is important that the private sector is able to participate at the Summit and further demonstrate their ability to play a pivotal role both in the planning and execution of these new projects, but also to understand more clearly where the sector is going and who is shaping its direction.” Veronica Bolton Smith, Regional Director, EnergyNet Limited commented.

Confirmed public sector decision makers are:

H.E. Hon Tina Joemat-Pettersson, Minister of Energy, South Africa

H.E. Hon Horace Gatien, Minister of Energy and Hydrocarbons, Madagascar

H.E. Hon. Samuel Undenge, Minister of Energy and Power Development, Zimbabwe

Kescel Kaehaizi, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Malawi

Pascoal Bacela, National Director of Energy, Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, Mozambique

Isaias Rabeca, Executive Board Member, EDM, Mozambique

Antonio Saide, CEO, FUNAE, Fundo de Energia, (Energy Fund), Ministry of Energy, Mozambique

Guiherme Luis Mavilia, Chairman and CEO, CENLEC, Mozambique

Karen Breytenbach, Head of IPP Office, Department of Energy, South Africa

Remigious Makumbe, Director of Regional Infrastructure and Services, SADC

Alison Chikova, Acting Coordination Centre Manager, Southern Africa Power Pool (SAPP) 

Paseka Nku, Acting CEO, NERSA, South Africa

Shamshir Mukoon, Production Manager, Central Electricity Board, Mauritius

John Kandalu, Chief Executive Officer, ESCOM, Malawi

To attend the Southern Africa Energy and Infrastructure Summit, 4-6th May, Maputo, Mozambique please register your interest at [email protected] or by visiting  www.southern-africa-summit.com