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| caption: The African Utility Week Banner- Delivering Beyond Tomorrow |
The African Utility Week also known as AMU, has been going on for the last 12 years, where different sponsors, exhibitors and visitors take part in coming together to explore and learn more about the range of utilities that the industry has. These ranges from your power supplies, water, and waste managements. It is a great opportunity for the different exhibitors to come together and share business ideas and look further on where they should improve regarding their utilities.
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| caption: Private&Public Utilities in Urban settings presentations |
The conference will be held at the Expo Centre, Nasrec, Johannesburg on the Monday, 21 May to the Thursday 24 May 2012. This year it is estimated that over 300 exhibitors from the international metering will be joining in, including renewable; water large industrial; investment; T&D; smart grid; generation and waste management industry occupying about 10 000m² exhibition space. African Utility Week will also be presenting a broad display of engineering technology for utilities and the large industrial and commercial sector. A unique insight into the entire African power, water and waste management sector will be presented which is one of the reasons why thousands of buyers from over 60 countries attend the AMU every year.http://www.african-utility-week.com/
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| caption: Plans for a multi-utility service company (MUSCo). |
African Utility Week features:
• 11,000m2 indoors and outdoors exhibition space, accommodating over 300 solution providers presenting their latest technologies
• Over 20 free to attend technical workshops and seminars, discussing solutions to your daily challenges
• Opening session, featuring international thought leaders and local industry experts
• ESI Awards of Excellence, a prestigious annual award ceremony
• Networking function, where utility professionals, solution providers and large industrial end users come together to share experiences and make new contacts
• Multi-track conference, including 8 conference break-out sessions and over 200 industry-elite speakers
• More than 4000 visitors from over 60 countries
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Conference break-out sessions include:
• Metering
• Renewable Energy
• Water
• Large Industry (energy/water efficiency)
• Infrastructure Investment
• Transmission and Distribution/Smart Grids
• Generation
• Waste Management http://www.sa-venues.com/events/gauteng/african-utility-week/
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| caption: Lets give life to the next generation |
This event is one that will help educate people about the importance of saving energy; water; how to manage waste by recycling; knowing how to clean up after yourself; stop littering and the ability to help out in giving your input and ideas in coming up with solid, long-term solutions and strategies in improving the land we live on. We are faced with multiple problems caused by the ignorance of humans, we need to acknowledge the importance of our resources or else we will suffer a great deal in the long run. This expo aims to improve our economy, make us benefit, help us to network and have professional business relationships in different industries locally and internationally. Now that is what i call a good strategy plan and a well formed foundation for a growing and stable economy and a well developed country.
