Many countries in the developing world face crippling electricity shortages. In Africa, Ghana has tried to offset this problem by leasing large gas generators – an expensive stopgap solution. In Nigeria and Angola most businesses operate private diesel generators to supplement unreliable public power supplies.

If we exclude South Africa, Egypt and Algeria the rest of Africa’s combined produced less electricity than Turkey in 2008. And the World Bank estimates that less than 25% of sub-Saharan Africans are connected to national power supply networks. National grids are often poorly maintained and electricity is often lost or stolen.

The situation has not always been this bad, but power generating capacity in Africa has not kept pace with economic growth. The World Bank has stated that sub-Saharan countries are adding a thousand megawatts of generating capacity a year but need more than double that just to match demand growth.

There are similar problems in other parts of the developing world.

Oasis Power is bringing conventional and innovative technologies to transform power production in developing countries. We broker relationships between the technology companies and the private and state owned power companies in developing countries.

We are actively seeking opportunities to construct 10 MW to 5,000 MW power stations.