Huawei unveiled its Intelligent Substation Solution for sub-Saharan Africa at Enlit Africa 2026, positioning the offering as a step towards accelerating digital transformation across the regions power sector.
The solution was launched during the Southern Africa Electric Power Summit hosted by Huawei under the theme Building future power systems, unleashing surging digital intelligence productivity . The summit brought together utilities and industry stakeholders, including Eskom, Ghanas Bui Power Authority, the Transmission Company of Nigeria and the International Council on Large Electric Systems CIGRE to discuss power sector digitalisation and wireless communication network applications.
During the Enlit Africa 2026 keynote session, Wang Guoyu , Vice President of Huaweis Electric Power Digitalisation Business Unit, delivered a presentation titled Advancing all intelligence, empowering the future power system . He said the emergence of the prosumer model is reshaping energy systems and driving the transition towards intelligent power networks.
