ESI Africa Podcast

Listen as ESI Africa speaks to Simon Ighofose, co-founder and CEO of bioenergy tech start-up PyroGenesys which has developed a waste-to-energy system to generate electricity using the pyrochemy chemical process. 

Listen to this exclusive interview with Iain Banner, Chairman and Co-founder of e-Movement Pty Ltd. which will host the upcoming E-Fest, showcasing e-mobility through the "fastest sustainable motoring event in the world".

Listen as ESI Africa speaks to Luke Burras, co-founder of Mobile Power which uses a pay-per-swap battery to provide everything from batteries for small EVs to lighting for homes and electricity supply to power small DC appliances.

Listen as ESI Africa speaks to Amrit Chandan, CEO and co-founder of UK-based advanced lithium battery developer Aceleron, about empowering people to benefit from sustainable battery technology through the use of a modular battery that can be easily serviced, maintained and upgraded.

Listen as landscape architect Kathrin Krause explains the link between water and design and how she tries to incorporate sustainable practices into her work.

Listen as David Robertson, the Vice President of Solutions for Energy Exemplar, speaks with ESI Africa editor, Nicolette Pombo-van Zyl, about PLEXOS, a unified energy modelling and forecasting software platform, and how it contributes positively to utility efficiency. 

Here, Sicelo Xulu, the Chief Engineering Officer at PWD Xperts, former Managing Director at City Power Johannesburg and the previous president of the AMEU, provides his solo commentary on the current energy crisis and South Africa President, Cyril Ramaphosa's plans to address these challenges. 

"Based on...what was agreed upon in the Paris Agreement and the slow evolution into COP26 whereby the developed countries promised developing countries to tackle climate change, you find that...these developing countries...are on a different page. Developing countries are still trying to eradicate poverty and are still dealing with development agendas. Clearly, they are in need of more support to focus on the climate.”

In November 2021, much of the industry news was dominated by conversations, debates and announcements out of Glasgow’s COP26 assembly. With so much focus on climate change we caught up with Connie Ochola-Iseme, Regional Manager for Lucy Electric in East Africa, to talk about COP26, industry solutions and working towards net-zero in Africa.

This podcast outlines what the role of rail is in smarter mobility and how it can be integrated into public transport as one of the main modes of transport used in South Africa.

Anazi Zote, Project Lead for Smarter Mobility Africa had a one-on-one interview with Makgola Makololo, Director: Business Development, Sales and Marketing at Alstom to catch up on the latest trends for rail in South Africa and how its transition into smart mobility will impact public transport and trade across the continent.

Makgola is currently the Director for Business Development, Sales and Marketing for Alstom Southern Africa. She is also the Managing Director of Alstom’s BTSA joint venture. Makgola is a seasoned leader having been an acting Deputy Director General for Energy in the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) of the South African government with shareholder oversight on Eskom (Energy), Safcol (Forestry) and Alexkor (Mining) until 2020.

• A comparison between two cities  
• A strategy to go fully electric  
• Shaping policy and the government’s role in early electric vehicle adoption  
• Understanding the resistance shown by the informal public transport sector  
• How data is the key to Africa’s EV evolution 

• Simisola Elegba, Bus System Engineer at LAMATA (Nigeria)     
• Vuyisile Majola, CEO at Ubunye Capital (South Africa)