Indian power solutions find favour in South Africa

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The power alternatives offered by several Indian companies thatexhibited at the annual Computer Faire here have found favour withSouth African businesses, according to organisers.
Although only seven Indian manufacturers participated in the 30thComputer Faire, which ended here at the weekend, as compared to 30last year, business had been brisk and lots of leads were beingfollowed up by these companies, according to Vikas Gupta, deputydirector of the Electronics and Computer Software Export PromotionCouncil, who led the Indian delegation.
'Companies like Su-Kam Power Systems, Genus Power Infrastructuresand others have seen the opportunities that South Africa presents,with its current power crisis,' Gupta told IANS.
He was referring to the fact that an unexpected surge in demand forpower has caught the national energy supplier Eskom offguard andforced it to resort to load shedding in recent months.
'People here are looking for solutions and in the computerindustry, with its huge need to ensure that servers and desktopsremain powered up in outages, made us come here to show India'sexpertise in this area.
'But we are also showing our expertise in specialised softwareareas where India has firmly entrenched itself in South Africa asnot being a one-time seller, having shown a genuine interest andproving that Indian products are of superior quality with nocompromises, yet remaining cost-effective solutions,' Gupta added.
Dhananjay Sharma, deputy general manager (global business division)of Su-Kam, told IANS that the demand for its products in SouthAfrica had shifted from generators to invertors as consumers wantto be environment friendly.
Vishay Singh, Southern African agent for Su-Kam, said that at theheight of the power crisis here, his company could not import fastenough to keep up with the demand for generators and invertors.
'Business here has also been looking at alternative energy andSu-Kam in particular is well-geared for this with its modularsolutions such as solar and wind energy options.
'Online UPS demand has been great in both the business andgovernment sector, with more than 10,000 units sold in just sixmonths,' Singh said.
Genus Power Infrastructures Ltd, another Indian exhibitor at theComputer Faire, was also trying to expand into the UPS and invertormarket after having already found an agent here for its meterproducts.
'We have seen a lot of interest from local businessmen and arehoping that we can sign up an agent here soon,' Ashish Agarwal,assistant manager for International Business, told IANS.