African and Middle East Energy Development and Power Generation ---Status of Renewable Energy Projects, Sustainability of Infrastructure, Large and Small-Scale Developments, and Joint Venture and Cross-Border Projects

This paper focuses on the present status and future prospect of electricity infrastructure from the viewpoint of generation and transmission development, global deregulation trends and policies, advances in global research and development and strategies to influence the integration into the global transition to knowledge based economies in Africa. The panel will therefore evaluate and update models and policies that are near term, mid term and long term. Interconnection of electric power systems of regions, states and individual territories is acquiring a growing scale of importance in world practice.