About Us
SADEL Power & Management Consulting (SADEL) is an energy consulting company established in 2007 by a group of specialists in the areas of electricity, economics and business management.
The company has its focus on an identified niche in the energy market in southern Africa where it has a competitive advantage resulting from the vast experience and knowledge of its collaborators and professional associates with regard to the southern Africa energy sector, in particular of the electricity supply industry.
Thus SADEL can be considered a southern Africa company, based in Johannesburg as its professional staff and associates have a vast experience and in-depth knowledge of the southern Africa energy sector and its operating environment. Quite naturally, the geographic emphasis of SADEL is on Southern Africa and its client portfolio covers investors, financiers, governments and governmental organisations as well as energy companies active in the region.
The undertaking of the services provided by SADEL is based on four main pillars, which makes SADEL an undisputed company reference within the southern Africa energy regional context.
SADEL's four main pillars are described as follows:
A Regional Company
SADEL is based in Johannesburg but it is active all over southern Africa. Taking advantage of the location and communication facilities of Johannesburg in all aspects (from transport to a solid IT network and infrastructure), SADEL has an operational flexibility that allows for a highly effective and timely response to any requirement in any country of southern Africa.
Knowledge and Experience
SADEL's professionals and associates have a vast knowledge and experience of the southern Africa energy sector, which makes SADEL unique in the region.
Within a broad objective of being highly efficient, SADEL has a relatively small core group of professionals that are complemented by associates located in most of the southern Africa countries. It is in this context that all SADEL professionals possess a vast knowledge and experience of the complex interplay of economic, political and institutional factors at regional and national levels, which provides SADEL with a unique blend to understand and interpret the attitudes and policies of various players in the region's energy industry.
Competence
SADEL's knowledge and experience are the basis for its recognised competence on the various domains of intervention and operation. Covering a wide range of areas, – such as facilitation and advice on private participation, searching and definition of solutions for specific power and energy related issues, energy industry restructuring and reform, market and regulatory developments, energy tariffs and pricing issues, etc. – SADEL is proud of its competence in all areas where he gets involved.
An additional factor on its recognised overall professional competence it is its language proficiency. SADEL operates in a region that has two predominant languages (English and Portuguese) and it uses both as working languages depending on the client's requirements.
Partnerships
SADEL explores the potential of strategic partnerships to be able to fully respond to the requirements of specific projects and the client's objectives and needs. In this context SADEL has a range of potential international partners that can bring additional resources and international capabilities and experience to the southern Africa market.
The rational for these partnerships is to provide the clients with the most advance solutions based on the best international practices in use all around the world. These partnerships are established on a case by case basis, depending on the specific needs of a particular project. They are always established with the objective to fully respond to the clients' requirements and needs.