VoltVision is accelerating global mining growth following joining ABB’s SynerLeap innovation hub and completing flagship deployments across Asia and the Middle East.
The high-voltage electrical data and analytical company is planning to build on its Latin American momentum by expanding commercial activity in Chile and Peru, converting event-driven engagement into a qualified pipeline and active projects.
VoltVision will also continue its expansion across the African mining community, supporting operators that are seeking to mitigate grid instability, reduce diesel usage, and meet increasingly stringent ESG and climate targets.
As Mining.com.au reported, the African continent hosts about 30% of the world’s known mineral resources, playing a key role in the global resources market and related industries. Sub-Saharan Africa alone is estimated to produce US$2 trillion ($3.1 trillion) of metals required for the energy transition by 2050.
Despite the continent’s plethora of resources, Africa has not seized all the opportunities presented to the minerals-rich area.
S&P’s World Exploration Trends (2024) reports the combined exploration budget within the continent is just US$1.27 billion – well behind Latin America (US$3.38 billion), Canada (US$2.44 billion), Australia (US$2.2 billion), and just behind the US (US$1.62 billion).
Additionally, only 10-15% of the value generated into its economy from mineral resources is retained in Africa as a whole, underscoring an inherent need for domestic downstream processing and manufacturing.
However, the situation appears to be improving, as the Africa Governance Report 2025 reveals that Angola derived up to US$20 billion from these sectors, which accounted for up 31% of its GDP in 2021, and the Democratic Republic of Congo derived US$7 billion in 2017. Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Tanzania had contributions ranging from US$3 billion to US$5 billion.
Becoming a digital power partner
In addition to expanding its global presence, VoltVision is aiming to strengthen its partner ecosystem. The company is seeking to add engineering and systems integration partners in core mining regions to expedite deployments and support on-the-ground delivery.
Managing Director Manoli Yannaghas says the company’s mission this year is to give mine operators the electrical network visibility and decision support needed to meet challenges surrounding decarbonising and managing increasingly complex energy systems.
“We see 2025 as the year VoltVision firmly established itself as a trusted digital power partner to tier one and mid-tier miners across Africa, the Middle East and now Latin America,” Yannaghas says.
“By combining our unique approach to data extraction with our ViViD analytics platform and energy management strategy expertise, we are consistently helping clients cut energy waste, improve network reliability and reduce emissions, often with payback periods measured in weeks rather than years.”
Through SynerLeap, VoltVision has strengthened its position within a global energy ecosystem focused on intelligent power networks and industrial decarbonisation, while gaining access to ABB’s research and development capabilities, market channels, and partners to help scale its cloud-based ViViD electrical energy and power quality analytics platform for mining customers worldwide.
ViViD Energy supports the digitisation of electrical equipment by visualising and monitoring time-stamped energy data, enabling real-time site and group network transparency. VoltVision improves efficiency with actionable insights including energy usage analysis, site electrical balance and maximum demand.
In 2025, the company expedited its international growth strategy, participating in EXPOMIN in Chile and PERUMIN in Peru. As a result, the company laid the groundwork for commercial expansion in two copper and gold producing regions.
VoltVision also completed ‘large-scale’ installations at the Sukari Gold Mine in Egypt, where ViViD is being used to digitise the power network.
At Sukari, VoltVision enables engineering teams to monitor and analyse power in near real-time, optimise the interaction between different generation sources and automate data-driven reporting for engineering, finance, and ESG teams.
Further, the company also secured a major new mining customer in Zambia, with Konkola Copper Mines set to deploy the ViViD platform across three of its Chingola sites.
By digitising KCM’s electrical networks and delivering real-time power quality and energy analysis, VoltVision will support the operator’s efforts to stabilise supply, reduce unplanned downtime and target lower costs and carbon intensity across its operations.
VoltVision digitises high and medium voltage industrial power networks, transforming raw power data into actionable information that improves operational efficiency and lowers emissions for heavy industrial users, particularly in mining.
Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au
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