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Mamoso May is the CEO of Dor­p­er Wind Farm, an Inde­pen­dent Pow­er Pro­duc­er in the East­ern Cape of South Africa with a gen­er­a­tion capac­i­ty of 100 MW. Her suc­cess­ful career path was not lin­ear: When Mamoso was at uni­ver­si­ty , she worked part time as a serv­er in a restau­rant. One of the guests offered her a job in her account­ing busi­ness. From there Mamoso worked her way up and gained more expe­ri­ence until she joined Dor­p­er Wind Farm in 2013.

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Devak­sha Maharaj is the founder and Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of IKIGAI Engi­neer­ing, a con­sul­tan­cy offer­ing ener­gy man­age­ment advi­so­ry ser­vices to house­holds and com­pa­nies. Their ser­vices include mea­sure­ment and ver­i­fi­ca­tion as well as instal­la­tion and main­te­nance in the elec­tri­cal and renew­able ener­gy sectors.

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Bertha Dlami­ni is the Found­ing Pres­i­dent of African Women in Ener­gy and Pow­er (AWEaP), a non-prof­it com­pa­ny work­ing to accel­er­ate African women entre­pre­neurs’ par­tic­i­pa­tion in the ener­gy sec­tor. After study­ing Mar­ket­ing, she start­ed her career in con­sult­ing and in 2006 found­ed her own mar­ket­ing com­pa­ny Rito Con­sult­ing Services.

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In this part of our series Co-ben­e­fits Sto­ries, Rudolf du Plessis dis­cuss­es the cor­ner­stones of a just tran­si­tion in South Africa. For this series, we have asked ener­gy pro­fes­sion­als that have par­tic­i­pat­ed in our train­ings for their thoughts and expe­ri­ences on co-ben­e­fits of renew­able ener­gy in their country.

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In this part of our series Co-ben­e­fits Sto­ries, Ceren Kut­lu dis­cuss­es how renew­ables can increase Turkey’s resilience towards future cri­sis. For this series, we have asked ener­gy pro­fes­sion­als that have par­tic­i­pat­ed in our train­ings for their thoughts and expe­ri­ences on co-ben­e­fits of renew­able ener­gy in their country.

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