Power Generation

Things are looking up for Badamasi Maiwalda, 32, an iron bender in Kano, northern Nigeria. Until now Badamasi’s iron bending workshop has struggled to operate due to the worn out and damaged state of the Nigerian power sector’s generation and distribution capacity.

The recently completed Africa Carbon Forum in Nairobi had significantly more participants than expected.

The Mozambique Office of the African Development Bank (AfDB) recently hosted Mozambican participants who took part in the first Virtual Power Working Group Meeting on infrastructure, whose theme was on negotiating agreements on power projects in Africa.

With thousands of engines still in operation that were produced before emissions regulations were in effect, Caterpillar Marine Power Systems and Caterpillar Emissions Solutions have been working for nearly two years to design engine retrofit kits.

Two important power and energy conferences coincided with South Africa’s government making some crucial policy decisions.