In an effort to address growing concerns about electricity blackouts, poor power quality and inefficient operations stakeholders recently gathered at the PAC World Africa Conference.
Hosted at CPUT the conference brings together the community of electric power system’s Protection, Automation and Control (PAC) specialists and was attended by approximately 140 delegates from ten countries.
The event was officially opened by CPUT Vice-Chancellor Prof Vuyisa Mazwi-Tanga and was the first of its type organized in Africa- others having previously taken place in Dublin and Brazil.
It is all thanks to CPUT’s Centre for Substation Automation and Energy Management Systems (CSAEMS) that the event came to the Africa at all. The unit is a leading research and training centre and participates actively in the work of the PAC World community, making it the ideal location.
Professor Raynitchka Tzoneva, of the CSAEMS at CPUT’s Electrical Engineering Department, says the conference discussions were instrumental in the formulation of new ideas that could ultimately lead to sustaining energy and power solutions.
Written by Ilse Fredericks
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