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MarketReportsOnline.com adds Q3 2012 reports for Power Industry of multiple countries to its store. Following are the report briefs: Southern Africa Power Report Q3 2012 http://www.marketreportsonline.com/165020-southern-africa-p.html Angola BMI View: Despite being an oil-rich country and net exporter, Angola’s domestic power supply is met by energy generated by hydroelectricity, with only a small percentage of energy generation coming from alternative sources. The country is making some progress towards diversifying its energy mix: some new thermal capacity is planned, and a LNG project is scheduled to begin construction in May 2012, but other areas, namely solar power, remain undeveloped. An election year is upon Angola, and while BMI does not expect a change in government – President Dos Santos has been in power for over 30 years – the government announced it will spend US$16.5bn in electricity infrastructure between 2012 and 2016.     Namibia Power Report Q3...

A number of factors have prompted us to revise our forecasts for Canada’s power sector. As part of a revision of our historical data series, we have now factored in lower generation, consumption and net installed capacity for 2011. On top of that, a number of macroeconomic and sector-specific dynamics have been priced-in to our outlook. Most notably, according to BMI’s Country Risk team, the Canadian growth outlook will remain relatively positive; yet, a significant deceleration in activity is expected in the first half of 2012 as the global economy cools. As a consequence, while we still expect the power sector will avoid entering negative territory, we see power consumption growing only modestly (0.83%) in 2012.  In the short term, we believe that much will depend on the external picture and its influence on Canada’s economy. With power demand highly correlated to economic activity, we thus see risks to both the upside and the downside to our power forecasts for 2012.  Tha...