Solarplaza Summit | RE Trading Southern Africa

Dick founded Subsolar in 2010 and has been a driving force behind the company’s growth in the renewable energy sector. With over 20 years of experience in sales and business development across the B2B market in Europe and Africa, Dick brings deep industry knowledge and strategic insight.

Stephen Dihwa has over 30 years of experience in the power sector. He started with Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) in 1988 and rose through the ranks to Business Development Director of the Transmission subsidiary up to 2007. Worked as System Planning Advisor in EdM (Mozambique) in 2007 and as Senior Manager responsible for Planning and then Renewable Energy & System Integration in NamPower (Namibia) from 2008 to 2012. He worked from 2013 to 2016 as a consultant Power Engineer for the African Development Bank in Zimbabwe. He was Principal Director in the Ministry of Energy and Power Development of Zimbabwe from 2016 to 2017. Joined SAPP in December 2017. In his current role as Executive Director of the SAPP Coordination Centre he oversees the planning of the interconnected grid, operations of the system, environmental management aspects, project preparation and electricity trading. The Coordination Centre acts as the Market Operator of the SAPP competitive electricity market which currently runs month-ahead, week-ahead, day-ahead and intra-day markets. The region covers the 12 mainland Southern African Development Community (SADC) states.