2025 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica Conference

Annoucement of Winners

The IEEE Smart Village is happy to announce the winners of its 2024 Student Paper Competition for the PowerAfrica Conference.

Category A: Postgraduate Students

• First Place:
  Towards Ensuring Energy Security in Africa
  Alex Mwaki Gacienja
  Institute of Heat Engineering, Faculty of
  Power and Aeronautical Engineering, Warsaw
  University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
   
  Second Place:
  Towards Ensuring Energy Security in Africa
  Martin Ansong
  Department of Physics, University of Nairobi,
  Nairobi, Kenya

Category B: Undergraduate Students

• First Place:
  Energy security in South Africa, 2030: a review on how to achieve this goal
  Kevin Sleider Pabon Lobo
  Dept. of Electrical and Electronic University
  Francisco de Paula Santander Cúcuta,
  Colombia
   
• Second Place:
  Towards a Decentralised Energy Management Framework for Mitigating Energy Poverty in Africa
  Reuel Zasan Kantiyok
  Department of Mechatronics Engineering.
  Federal University of Technology Minna Niger State
  Nigeria
   

For further enquiries please contact:

• Toby Cumberbatch: toby.cumberbatch@cooper.edu
• Salamatu Sani: salamatu.sani@ieee.org
• Desire C. Mussa: desire.c.mussa@ieee.org