ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa

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ABB, a Switzerland-based power and automation technology group, plans to start production of central PV inverters in South Africa to support the rapidly growing local solar market and local content requirements.

 

ABB plans to open the new inverter production line at its existing facilities in Johannesburg in 2014. The line for its PVS800 range of central inverters will have a production capacity of approximately 500MW a year. It will produce 630kW, 875kW and 1,000kW central inverters.

The firm already produces solar inverters in Estonia, India and China.

 

ABB has been developing the South Africa market as a power converter firm. According to the firm, South Africa is one of the world's fastest growing solar markets due to government commitments to increase power generation from renewable sources under the country's renewable energy independent power producer procurement program.

"With this investment in a new production line, ABB further reinforces its position as a global renewables leader with attention to local market needs," said Ulrich Spiesshofer, head of ABB's Discrete Automation and Motion division. "The region's energy needs are set to grow with economic expansion and with South Africa looking to benefit from its abundance of sunshine, the firm will be in an even better position to serve local customers."

ABB installed its first two 500kW solar projects near Johannesburg in 2011, and has since gained a delivery pipeline of approximately 90MW of central inverters, said the firm.

 

Source: Digitimes.com

You are invited to our 12th Spidnetworking event

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It's another SpidNetworking event and what better time than this summer to renew your commitment to building productive relationships with prospective clients, business contacts and acquaintances in your industry. This event will be brought to you by our Sponsors, Neobosit Integrated Services and June Dawn events.

At this 12th event on Saturday, 8 June, 2013, 10am-2pm, at Protea Hotel Ikoyi, you will get the chance to participate in our quintessential 'SpidNetworking Activity,' where you will  sit 'one' on 'one' and across the table from another business professional, while seated/rotated in structured seating arrangement within a specified period of time. You will also get to listen to the MDs of our sponsoring companies talk about their companies, services and their career story.

About our Sponsors
Neobosit Intergrated Services is an indigenous organisation established to provide premium services in the petroleum products haulage industry. The company's interest is in the sales, supply and distribution of all refined white and black petroleum products namely – PMS, AGO, DPK, LPFO, LPG, Bitumen, Chemicals and Base oils. It services a number of organisations nationwide and its partners include Fidelity, Rafiex, Sahara Group, Haulage Oil & Gas Ltd., RANGK ltd, and Zenith.  To find out more about them, visit http://neobosit.com/ Its MD, Mr. Emeka Onwujuba, will speak about the company, its services and his career story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

June Dawn Events is a full service event planning, management and design company with service offerings for Corporate, Special and Private events. They have managed weddings, dinners, anniversaries, breakfast meetings, AGMs, children’s parties, seminars, fairs, soirees, cos­tume parties, exhibitions, themed events, birthday parties, bridal and baby showers, product launches and private events for state governments, The Nigerian Navy, Multichoice Nigeria, Sarner PFM, Deola Sagoe, Smooth FM, Ecobank to mention a few corporate entities and also individuals. Repeated success in putting together flawless, seamless, professional and amazing events as a result of obvious passion for each event, hands on approach, endless energy, warmth and an unrivalled strive for perfection has resulted in high demand for its services by several organizations and individuals.  June Dawn Event's MD, Mrs Bolupe Adebiyi, will talk about her company and share her career story.

 

 

 

 About SpidNetworking
SpidNetworking, since its inception in September 2010, has brought together over 500 business professionals including middle level managers, entrepreneurs, and investors, to its quarterly events for the purpose of networking in a relaxed setting. SpidNetworking aims encourage the sharing and exchange of information about companies' products, services, ideas, and projects and individual success stories. It also helps business professionals to build sound networking skills, and  aims to promote mentorship and menteeship amongst its members.

 

 

 

 

Contact
For more information or to invite a friend to this 12th event on Saturday, 8 June, 2013, please contact the host, Clara at cogunsemi@yahoo.com or at 08057204250

Event Details

RSVP at Evite's website

Date: Saturday, 8 June, 2013

Time: 10am-2pm
 

 

Apply for Intel's Engineering Internship job in Lagos, Nigeria

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Engineering Internship Job with Intel in Lagos

Description

This is a 12 month fixed term internship suitable for students currently studying towards a Bachelors or Master's degree in a relevant field. The focus of this role is to implement and execute projects and programs in a timely manner and engage all stakeholders in a proactive manner; flawlessly manage customer quality issues to closure, manage customer satisfaction with product quality and technical support.

In this position, you will be working with the team in the delivery of customer support in the area of focus - such as our consumers/1st time buyers program as well engineering support for customers in Nigeria and West Africa (Ghana) region. The customer support consists of both reactive issue resolution and pro-active improvement projects. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Supporting customers with Quality and/or Reliability issues or concerns, including information requests.
- Working on several improvement projects, including customer improvement projects as well as internal improvement projects, such as tools development (programming skills would be an advantage).
- Support for our 1country project and liaising with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth program implementation and delivery.
- Assisting with 'Keeping The Business Running' and generally assisting the team in program delivery and implementation.

Qualifications

This is a 12 month fixed-term placement suitable for students currently studying a degree course in relevant disciplines, and is targeted at 2nd or 3rd year students enrolled in a 4 years bachelor's degree which includes a year in industry. Having one or more of the skills below will be a strong advantage:

Marketing and Sales: Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

Technical Skills:
- Understanding of basic PC architecture
- Ability to build and debug typical PC hardware, install and debug typical PC operating systems including both Microsoft Windows and various distributions of Linux
- Ability to do circuit designs using large scale integration components, familiarity with configuration of complex devices at register level
- Ability to program in assembly language for X86 processors
- Ability to program in either C or C++, detailed knowledge of communication protocols such as TCP/IP
- Ability to debug electronic circuits using typical debug tools such as oscilloscope, logic analyzer etc
- Project management and implementation

Soft Skills:
- Ability to quickly learn about new products and technologies
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English
- Capable of working unsupervised by prioritizing work and focusing on meeting agreed objectives in required timeframe
- Ability to integrate quickly with existing team so that maximum contribution to team goals can be quickly achieved

Business Group
Intel's Sales and Marketing group provides world-class support at the OEM, developer and end-user levels. In addition, the group is involved in Internet and e-Commerce strategies, as well as the execution of worldwide Intel® architecture branded product strategies. Intel's expanding breadth of products and recent acquisitions are providing vast opportunities in Sales and Marketing now and in the future for both the technical and business-oriented.

Deadline: 29 May, 2013

Apply now at Intel's website

 

 

Want an MBA? Visit the QS World MBA Tour happening in Nigeria and Kenya this weekend through Monday

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The QS World MBA Tour is the most prestigious MBA fair in the world and is perfect for anybody looking to begin studying an MBA.  Each MBA fair gives candidates the chance to meet the best business schools from around the world. They also have a QS World Executive MBA Tour, which is specifically for people considering an EMBA

As part of 'QS' mission to provide information and access to business schools, TopMBA.com is pleased to offer over US$1,200,000 in scholarship funding for selected applicants from around the world who attend the QS World MBA Tour.
Schools from the US, UK, and other parts of the world will be in Lagos Nigeria on 11 May, 2013
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To view the schedule of events, please visit Top MBA's website

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