Essay About Healthy Increase Of Diesel And African Oil Producer

Africa Light Up
Electricity
generating sets has doubled (by value)
every year for the last four. In 2005 the
South West African oil producer imported
$21.7Million worth, and by 2008 this gure
had risen to $164.3Million, drawing in
24,580 units in all sizes.
The growing middle class in Luanda,
Angola’s capital city, used money they
made from the country’s oil boom to
purchase over 3,000 individual 7.5-75 kVA
units at an estimated value of $8Million.
The 75-375KVA range accounted for 2052
units worth approximately $17.3Million,
and sets over 375 up to 2,000 kVA
accounted for the remaining $85.2Million.
Twenty three African countries account
for 96 per cent of the total, of which just
five countries – Nigeria, South Africa, –
accounted for 64 per cent $925million.
Every serious producer of generating
sets beneted from the boom in sales to
the dark continent in 2008, the year that
other businesses headed into decline. U.S
exports which are minimal in comparison
with the size of its economy, almost trebled
from $26.7Million, in 2007 to $80 Million, in
2008. China, in particular made more than
double the value of sales it made in 2007,
jumping from$126Million to $387.6Million,
Japan and the European Union, show a
healthy increase of diesel generating sets
exported to Africa, but Turkey has shown a
big rise (up by $2.3Million to $31.3Million).
This has been in the larger – over-500 kVA
size range – of gen-sets.
Imports into South Africa accounted for
the bigger sizes of diesel red generators,
over 75KVA, were valued at $133.7Million