ANALYSIS OF POLICY OPTIONS FOR PROJECTS IN THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA: A SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH

Authors

  • Noah Omondi Ogano University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • Leon Pretorius University of Pretoria, South Africa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7166/28-1-1607

Abstract

Many projects in the electricity energy sector in the Sub Saharan Africa region experience quality challenges and delays, leading to frequent power outages that slow the overall economic activity in the region and frustrate investor confidence in the region. This paper presents the systemic methods employed to evaluate the dynamic consequences of policies in the electricity energy sector projects in the region. The model uses the Vensim software to carry out the simulations. A range of illustrative scenarios are provided and analysed, and the paper compares and contrasts these different scenarios.

Author Biographies

Noah Omondi Ogano, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Noah Ogano has about 25 years of professional and electrical engineering experience. He is presently a PhD student in the Graduate School of Technology Management at University of Pretoria. He holds the degrees Msc.

Project Management (University of Pretoria), MBA & BSc. Electrical Eng (University of Nairobi). He has worked as a design engineer as well as the operations and maintenance engineer in the electrical utility company in Kenya for 25 years now, during which time he has travelled extensively to more than 20 countries while undertaking factory audits and factory acceptance testing of materials / equipment for use in the power industry. He has published 6 technical conference papers and 2 peer reviewed journal articles as author and co-author in his fields of expertise, and is a member of INCOSE.

Leon Pretorius, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Leon Pretorius has more than 37 years professional, engineering, academic, and academic management

experience. He holds the degrees D Eng, MSc Eng, MSc Math, BSc Eng Hons, BSc Hons Math from the

University of Pretoria. He was professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa until 2007. In 2004 he

was the last Dean of Engineering at the Rand Afrikaans University prior to the merger of RAU and TWR when

he became Executive Dean of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg in 2005.

He is currently Professor in the Graduate School of Technology Management at University of Pretoria. He has

concurrently been active as specialist consultant and researcher in engineering industry since 1980, He has

supervised more than 170 master and Phd students in engineering as well as engineering and technology

management. This includes the supervision of more than 44 successful PhD theses. He has also published more

than 180 technical conference papers and peer reviewed journal articles as author and co-author in his fields of

expertise. He is an Honorary Fellow of SAIMechE, member of SAIIE, Member of ASME and Member of IEEE.

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Published

2017-05-26

How to Cite

Ogano, N. O., & Pretorius, L. (2017). ANALYSIS OF POLICY OPTIONS FOR PROJECTS IN THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA: A SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH. The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 28(1), 20–35. https://doi.org/10.7166/28-1-1607

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 1 (2017)

Section

General Articles

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