Title: Developments in power supply for the Southern Africa Power Pool 2011

Authors: Thomas James Hammons; Lawrence Musaba

Addresses: Glasgow University, 11C Winton Drive, Glasgow G12 0PZ, UK. ' Southern African Power Pool, P.O. Box GT897, Harare, Zimbabwe

Abstract: The Southern African Region has been experiencing power shortages due to increased demand with static power supply as a result of limited investment in both generation and transmission infrastructure across the region. This paper discusses how the power utilities in the region plan to cope with the power challenges and the measures that are planned for the future.

Keywords: power generation; SAPP; Southern Africa Power Pool; regional support; Eskom; regional cooperation; power supply; transmission infrastructure; power utilities.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGEI.2012.046715

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 2012 Vol.35 No.5, pp.332 - 342

Received: 09 Feb 2011
Accepted: 21 Dec 2011
Published online: 30 Aug 2014 *

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