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Speaker

Mark has worked for almost 40 years in the electricity sector across engineering, customer services and commercial roles. The bulk of his career was in Eskom where he had diverse roles such as construction, protection technician, grid planning engineer, key account management, and cross border power trading, and he resigned after 7 years as the Senior Manager, International Trading. Mark then worked as an independent energy consultant for 4 years, where amongst other assignments he provided training to other SAPP members and wrote the ‘SAPP New Entrant Guideline’. Mark then joined Solarcentury Africa as Head of Power Trading. In these various roles Mark has been involved in the Southern African Power Pool activities for almost 25 years and has served on various sub-committees and working groups. At Solarcentury Africa Mark serves on the EXCO and is responsible for trading the power from the company’s merchant power plants, 2 of which are currently trading 45MW on the SAPP markets, and additional projects which will add a further 260MW are in construction or development across the SADC region.