Phemelo Mitchell is the Senior Business Developer at Pele Energy Group and a board member of SAPVIA. With over 15 years of experience in power generation and renewable energy, she specializes in project management, engineering procurement, and construction. She has extensive knowledge of the Independent Power Producer Procurement (REIPPP) Programme, covering projects from development to decommissioning.
Her career began at Eskom as a turbine centreline engineer, followed by roles as a project manager at EDF Renewables South Africa and EPC Manager at ib vogt South Africa, where she led technical submissions for REIPPP bid window 5 of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement (REIPPP) Programme including Enterprise and Supplier Development, Economic Development, strategy development and execution for compliance to economic development and localization under the REIPPPP.