The future of Ethiopia’s energy complex is linked primarily to the development of renewable energy sources, said Emeshaw Damtew, president of the Ethiopian Nuclear Science Society, in an interview with the Global Energy Association.
Development problems existing in Africa’s energy complex are related to the lack of major industrial energy consumers and an economically and infrastructurally underdeveloped agricultural sector, said Abel Didier Tella, CEO of the Association of Power Utilities of Africa, in an interview with the Global Energy Association.
One of the key problems in the energy complex of the African countries are huge electricity losses across the distribution grids. Such situation is underpinned by serious wear-and-tear of the distribution grids facilities, Andrew Amadi (Kenya), General Director of the Kenya Renewable Energy Association claimed at the second conference of the Regional to Global cycle organised by Global Energy Association in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).
Global Energy Association held the second conference of the Regional to Global cycle in Ethiopia. The event took place on 8 February in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia and the entire African Union. It was dedicated to the role of Africa in the global energy sector, the recent changes in the energy balance of the region and availability of clean energy sources for local consumers.
Hydropower industry will be the foundation of the energy balance in Latin America until 2030, Gonzalo Casaravilla, professor of the Engineering Department of the Electric Engineering Institute with the University of the Republic of Uruguay and the ex-President of UTE said at the first conference of the Regional to Global cycle in Punta del Este (Uruguay).
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay have all the pre-requisites for setting up a common energy system, said Gonzalo Casaravilla, the professor of the Engineering Department of the Electric Engineering Institute with the University of the Republic of Uruguay and the ex-President of UTE at the first conference of the Regional to Global cycle in Punta del Este (Uruguay).
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