CEOs from a number of Central Africa\u2019s leading power utilities, including DRC\u2019s SNEL, Cameroon\u2019s SONATREL and Congo Brazzaville\u2019s SNE, attended last week\u2019s annual Utility CEO Forum: Central Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leading expert partners in the industry, Oracle Utilities, Conlog, Nyamezela and Eaton, provided expert insights during the discussions with the utility executives that take place under Chatham Rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also part of the panel was the Forum\u2019s developmental partners, the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF), African Development Bank (AfDB) and Union of Producers, Transporters and Distributors of Electric Power in Africa (APUA). Another panellist was the Central African Power Pool\u2019s Permanent Secretary, Jean-Chrysostome Mekondongo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The event manager Nomvuyo Tena describes as \u201crobust\u201d the discussions that took place during last week\u2019s invitation-only two-day gathering that was facilitated through a live, online webinar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEven before COVID-19 changed the way we work and do business,\u201d says Tena, \u201cmost utility CEOs expressed the need to unpack their biggest challenge \u2013 financial sustainability. The Utility CEO Forum for the Central African region, had key objectives, with the first day being focused on understanding how utility CEOs navigate challenges. Utility CEOs looked at the role cost-reflective tariffs play in the financial sustainability of a utility when balancing electricity access, political interests, regulator influence and currency depreciation. CEOs also unpacked who would be the most important stakeholder in achieving financial sustainability.\u201d Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CEOs from a number of Central Africa\u2019s leading power utilities, including DRC\u2019s SNEL, Cameroon\u2019s SONATREL and Congo Brazzaville\u2019s SNE, attended last week\u2019s annual Utility CEO Forum: Central Africa. Leading expert…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}