Keith Tinashe Katyora
South Africa
Keith Katyora, PMP®, CEM®, Pr. Eng (CAND), is a seasoned professional with vast expertise in electrical engineering, project management, and advisory services. He has acquired extensive experience in the energy sectors across Southern, Central, West, and Eastern Africa. His core competencies include renewable energy design and modeling (solar PV and wind), competitive electricity market modeling and regional power trading, green hydrogen technologies, grid compliance studies, primary plant designs, and development of new energy markets. He is a technology enthusiast and passionate about utilizing technology to address various social causes.
Currently, Mr. Katyora is a Senior Project Manager at Sunelex, an independent power producer based in South Africa, spearheading the development of over 6 GW of new, clean and green energy. Mr. Katyora previously served as Outcome 3 Deputy for the Southern Africa Energy Program (SAEP), where he collaborated with the Outcome 3 Lead in managing program operations to achieve its objectives. He contributed his expertise towards developing regional harmonization and trading systems to improve the Southern Africa transmission system.
Mr. Katyora is a Certified Energy Manger (CEM) and a Project Management Professional (PMP); over the years has received numerous awards which include Young Independent’s 2019/20 SADC Top 100 most influential young people; 2020/21 Young Engineer of the Year (via the South African National Energy Association Awards (SANEA)); and 2019 Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans (Science & Technology Category), recognition for work done within the energy and leadership space.
He can be contacted at katyorakeith@gmail.com or on LinkedIn.
Profile created 14 April 2023