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Brian Downie, SAICE’s new president,
heralds ‘a new world’
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE)
in late November inaugurated Brian Downie as its new
president for 2019. Downie, the 116th president of SAICE
since the organisation’s inception in 1903, intends to
use his office to focus on the vital issues of education,
entrepreneurship, employment, and personal empowerment.
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SAPP member states plan more
transmission interconnectors
Ministers of the Southern African Development Community
(SADC) have accepted a strategy proposed by the Southern
African Power Pool (SAPP) that can save the region
USD36-billion in installed capacity by 2040, by avoiding
rigidity due to excessive ‘committed’ megawatts.
“The conventional approach in a regional power sector
master plan is to treat the interconnected region as though
it were a single country.”
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