• Coping with fuel price volatility and supply uncertainty
• How power prices affect asset valuation in the energy industry
• Effect of government regulation regarding environment
• Protecting financial strength and operating flexibility

• How the global energy system is likely to evolve from now to 2020
• How much would it cost to extract and deliver energy resources to consumers?
• Price and availability of crude oil: The fundamental determinant of pricing trends

• An overview of the happenings and opportunities within the energy sector
• What  is the winning deal structure?
• What are you acquiring and how: Are you protected?
• Are the risks managed and mitigated: Who is paying what, when and how?

• Analysis of the various impetus that drove the reform process
• Key principles underlining the reforms from a monopoly provider to a competitive market
• Evolutionary changes to improving and making the market more efficient
• Conditions necessary for a competitive market and the benefits of deregulation
• A look at the future developments of the energy market

• Critical examination of Indonesia’s energy security and risk in the next 10 years: How short is Indonesia on its power supply?
• New mandates, reforms and initiatives necessary to move the industry forward
• Risks and returns: Opportunities and challenges for foreign investors 

• Energy policies and initiatives to drive renewable energy forward
• Installing a 12000MW generation capacity by 2010 and a $3bn/year investment requirement: Understanding the policies, initiatives and incentives to push this forward
• Understanding Vietnam’s political, environmental and financial situation: The dynamics in assessing investment opportunities and challenges
• Case studies of recent investments and deals
  

• Reality check on India’s electricity scenario: What improvements have been made so far and how much supply deficiency is India facing in the next 10 years?
• Polices and initiatives in improving the energy and power sector
• Opportunities and challenges for investors: What do you need to know to invest in a developing country with over 1 billion people?
• Analysis of recent successful case studies and power project deals

• Critical overview of the capacity needs and key master plans in building new power plants
• Renewable energy developments and policies in driving the initiative forward
• Accessing the investment climate and political situation
• Potential return and risk analysis
  

• Reviewing the Philippine Energy Plan (PEP 2005 -2014): What has been implemented to boost the power sector and what’s in the pipeline?
• How is Philippines engaging the private sector for the additional requirement of 9000MW in capacitiy?
• Setting up spot market to reduce power rates in the Philippines: How has WESM change the electricity market since its inception?
  

• An overview of Middle East’s natural gas production and supplies to 2020
• Accessing the future of LNG: What are the upcoming gas projects in the pipeline in Iran for NIGC?
• Middle East’s role in feeding Asia’s power needs and in influencing world prices: Can the Middle East live up to our supply expectations?
• Overcoming infrastructure and logistics challenges from Iran to Asia
  

• Building a business case for clean coal technology investments
• Identifying technology pathways needed for coal to be used as a competitive environmentally clean energy resource: Where are we now and where we need to be?
• 2020 outlook to clean coal utilisation and its role in power generation
• Building a carbon policy and a trading regime
  

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world, now you can meet the key players in your industry in
a brief but fun environment! Through a rotating cocktail
table format you will get the opportunity to meet all your fellow attendees face-toface
in just 30 minutes. Bring plenty of business cards along for a fast and furious
interactive session.

• Assessing the potential and readiness of Asia’s energy landscape for biomass utilisation
• Identifying the opportunities, challenges and obstacles faced in biomass utilisation in agriculture rich countries in Asia
• Examining the technologies and processes for biomass conversion to fuels: Is Asia up to mark?
• “Trend-spotting” Asia’s bio-economy: A 2020 vision into the bio-power world
      

• Reducing uncertainty in wind resource assessment
• Hot legal issues affecting the wind industry
• Project development challenges: What makes a successful wind project?
• Energy yield assessment

Our energy future and the reduction of our dependence on foreign sources of petroleum are dependent upon the adoption of a diverse energy portfolio.

• Understanding the economic, social environment and policy issues associated with transitioning to new energy or fuel paradigm
• Opportunity and challenges of early adoption
• Risk mitigating factors for early adoption
  

• Assessing the financial situation of T&D companies in Asia
• In a deregulated market, financial performance is a key measure for regulators, investors and internal stakeholders: What are the influence and expectations of each of these groups?
• The emergence of the infrastructure focused investor: Implications for utility companies
• Optimising capital return and asset investment
• Competitive benchmarking in the distribution industry against Australia and Europe
  

• Challenges and opportunities in a deregulated market place
• Accessing recent market and structural developments
• Investment, regulation and risk
• Public private partnerships and private sector investment: How they work in Australia?
• Lessons from the Australian experience for Asia: Is the  model possible and implication for government, IPPs, investors and financiers
  

• Climate change as a disruptive investment theme: Carbon governance and the implications for the cost of power
• Emissions trading: The catalyst for cross commodity convergence
• New options to mitigate the impact of carbon
• Implications for investors
   

Hosted by:   

• Understanding the development of the Equator Principles and the implication for power generators
• Capital investment uncertainties and the affect on project finance based developments
• Best practice strategies to safeguard interests
      

• Introducing ECA’s recent financial developments including JBIC’s
• Analysing the new financial schemes such as mezzanine finance for asset acquisitions
• Advantages inherent in ECA programmes
  

• Assessing the investment attractiveness of Asia versus Middle East, Eastern Europe and North America
• Future financing requirements in Asia’s power and electricity sector
• What are investors looking for when in investing in power projects in the region?
• Acquisition, project development criteria and expected return in this evolving market
• Determining corporate governance best practices in the energy sector around the region
  

• How credit ratings will respond to changing regulation and market fluctuations
• Debt and capital ratio and the effects of divestitures of M&A activity
• Increasing risks in merchant generation and retail segments
• How investment banks can improve your credit worthiness
  

• Determining the potential of an Islamic capital market product
• Comparisons and contrasts of Islamic bonds with other conventional capital market products
• Sukuk as a substitute to conventional municipality and utility bonds
• Performance analysis of the first Islamic bond issue in China; raising over $200 million for a power plant project
  

• IFC experience and role in financing power projects
• Types of project financing structures via the debt market
• IFC's prospective on Public Private Partnerships "PPP" in Power
• Financing instruments used in PPPs
  

• Trends in renewable financing in Asia
• Investment opportunities and enabling policy framework
• Overview of the most attractive investment propositions
• Perspective on costs, benefits and risks: Renewable energies vs. nuclear and clean coal
• Renewable energy asset value and portfolio optimisation under key uncertainties: Fuel supply, transmission and legislation
• Key credit issues surrounding emissions trading, nuclear power and renewable energy
  

• Carbon credits, a new class of assets: Definition, market insights, contratual terms
• Quantifying the upside of carbon credits: Cost benefit anaylsis
• Carbon finance: Who does what?
• Practical issues: Lack of historical data and regulatory implications
  

• Increased presence of financial investors
• New legislative and regulatory outlook
• Tax deduction as a driver for renewable investment
• Accessing the opportunities and challenges for using CDM as a source of revenue to support financing
  

Hosted by:  

• Detailed asset management planning
• Commercial drivers associated with different classes of plants
• Coping with environmental pressures
• Achieving world-class standards of plant availability
  

• Analysis of the current situation of Transco’s privatisation process
• Issues and concerns of the government and the potential buyers
• Evaluation of the costs and benefit for privatising the transmission facility
• Effects on the power sector’s exposure to various risks factors and mitigation of key risks
  

Price is almost always the determinant of acquiring assets but what are the other issues that are critical for strategic managers in managing and developing the assets?

• Linking the company’s strategic positioning with focused asset acquisitions
• Developing and evaluating decision criteria in choosing assets
• Identifying techniques in the risk and reward evaluation of the assets
  

• Overview of DOE's Clean Coal Power & FutureGen initiatives
• Environmental controls for both existing and new coalfired power plants
• Advanced power generation technologies for new & re-powered power plant application
• Factors favoring clean coal technology deployment in Asia
      

• Technology roadmap for future power generation: The plan vs. market realities
• Planning for immediate and future needs
• Development of clean energy in Asia and what it means for the retrofit process?
• How effective are retrofits in the long term?
  

• The situation found at the UEDC at time of takeover
• Methods to radically reform and restructure the utility
• The results witnessed and challenges remaining
• The implications of the UEDC experience on other energy reform and utility commercialization efforts.
  
  

• Challenges of electricity companies in Singapore's deregulated market
• Business Development as an avenue for growth and maximising returns
• Market scenario and opportunities for potential investors
• Cogeneration / Trigeneration Development in Singapore
  

• Understanding what is meant by As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP)
• When can ALARP be demonstrated by adopting good practices?
• How to control risk to appropriate levels
• A three-tier structure to assist power companies to demonstrate that they have addressed risk to ALARP 
• Linking critical day-to-day activities to existing risk management framework
• Common pitfalls in demonstrating ALARP
    

• Examining the effect process control has on performance and profitability: Realising the economic gains attainable through improved process control
• Evaluating how and why performance losses occur and how to prevent them by understanding and improving process control
• Monitoring and controlling plant processes and assessing plant performance
• Optimisation example: Throughput vs. recovery - NPV
  

• Long-term planning and payoff: Achieving excellent supply reliability
• Innovations in energy storage and its benefits
• Decentralised small-scale power producers: When is this more advantageous?
• The real cost of retrofit projects
  

• Identifying the range of technical issues required for integration
• Technology optimisation in plant design and construction
• Mitigating the risks and costs of achieving best practice
• How stable are renewable energy generators in the long run?
  

• Energy requirement outlook by 2020
• Government’s take in boosting investor’s confidence in financing new power projects to meet the increasing demands for power
• Risks and challenges in public and private investment
• Opportunitues in Bangladesh’s energy sector
  

Hosted by:   

• Critical analysis on the project structure, investment requirement
• Opportunities for potential investors
• Project yield assessment
  

• Determining the infrastructure investment for advanced technology and zero emission renewable energy plant
• Future investment prospects: When, what and where?
• Risk and return analysis
  

• Overcoming legal uncertainties, financial risks and governmnet bureaucracy to increase investors’ appetite
• Analysis of the plant structure and the proposed size of expansion
• Risk and return analysis
      

• With India's GDP projected to grow at over 8% p.a., the energy needs are rising sharply. Significant investments are required in coal, oil & gas and power sectors.
• The Government of India has recognised the need for promoting private investment to meet the fast growing needs. Policies for private participation are very encouraging and significant investments are being made.
• The need to move towards market based pricing of natural resources under credible regulatory oversight is now recognised.
• In the new environment India presents many interesting opportunities to private investors
  

• Status of coal liquefaction technology
• Overview of coal to liquids activity
• Hurdles to commercialisation
• Reviewing a new coal to liquid plant project
      

• Adopting an efficient and commercially viable conversion technology for treating biomass
• Pioneering scheme for establishing a sustainable biomass supply chain
• New combined heat and power plant: A project showcase
  

This site tour is specially prepared for you to round off the 3-day conference with an
interesting and practical update on the day-to-day operation of local power plant in
Singapore. A major power generation and supply company, SembUtilities owns and operates SembCorp Cogen, Singapore’s first privately developed independent power producer and largest cogeneration plant. It is also the first project financed merchant power plant in Asia.

SembCorp Cogen is Singapore’s most efficient and environment-friendly power plant. The 815MW cogeneration plant uses advanced CCGT technology to produce both electricity and steam with an optimum output capacity of 650 megawatts of electricity and 550 tonnes of steam per hour.

Two-way coach provided.

Agenda
2.00 Gather at the hotel lobby
2.15 Coach departs hotel for Jurong Island
3.00 Guided tour around the plant premise
4.00 Short refreshment
4.30 Coach departs Jurong Island for hotel

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Objective
Risk management and human factors techniques have been used in a wide range of industries to greatly improve the performance of plants and operations. There have been significant improvements in operations of power plants and distribution networks by the application of risk management and human factors techniques.

This Masterclass will present how these techniques are applied in a power system environment to improve operational and safety performance. These techniques have been effectively used to achieve improvements in the range of 70% reductions in unplanned shutdowns and savings in excess of US$10million on individual units.

The objective of this Masterclass is to enhance course participants’ capabilities to
identify, evaluate, reduce and manage a wide spectrum of risks, including operational, financial, environmental, reputation, asset and operational disruption.
It has benefits to power plant and distribution network management, engineers, regulators, financiers, duty holders and customers.

Agenda

• The basics of Risk Management and human factors from a power industry perspective
• Benefits of adopting a risk management and human factors in the power sector
• Approaches to Risk and Safety Management to reduce down time due to equipment failure and human error
• How to identify weak elements in safety and work culture and develop cost effective and targeted improvement programmes 
• Work through case studies and examples to maximise benefits of risk management and human factor approaches.

About your leader

Dr. Sukhy Barhey is a director of Lloyd’s Register (Asia), and is responsible for the development and operations of the Safety and Risk Management Group. He is a safety, reliability and risk management specialist with over eighteen years of experience in a wide range of industrial sectors including Power, oil and gas, transportation and utilities.

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Objective
This Masterclass provides practical knowledge to help your organisation improve distribution performance through effective network pricing strategies, loss reduction programmes, optimal distribution asset management and alternative business models for distribution in rural and urban areas.

Agenda

1. Regulation, pricing and profits

• The public policy principles and regulatory approaches that drive the pricing of distribution/transmission services
• Strategies to maximise utlities’ profit within the regulatory constraints that typically exist.

2. Opportunities and approaches for loss reduction

• The Importance of managing losses
• Technical and non-technical (commercial) losses

3. Distribution asset management

• Understanding and defining the current situation and opportunities to improve asset performance
• Developing and implementing an integrated Asset Management business model
• Preparing the organisation for the changes required to realise the optimum solution

4. Alternative distribution business models

• The challenge of rural electrification, and the role of renewable energy, community participation, and non-utility organisations
• Options for urban distribution, including management contracts concessions and privatisation

About your leaders

Michael Hajny develops and implements performance
improvements at electricity and gas companies around the
world.

Steve Thornton heads PA’s Energy Practice in the Asia Pacific
region, and is PA’s New Zealand Country Head.

Dean White is a Member of PA's Management Group and
has served as the Managing Director of the state-owned
United Energy Distribution Company since February of 2004.

Mike Crosetti is a Member of PA’s Management Group, and
leads PA’s Infrastructure & Development Services Practice in
Asia-Pacific.

Objective

This Masterclass emphatically aims at identifying dominant energy market directions, on a long-term emissions’ signature by establishing trading-boundaries, issuing permits, crediting carbon, designing energy market orientations, accounting for GGAP and emissions’ sequestrations for reducing environmental risks. It is targeted to stimulate the Asian ower & Energy Industry to develop a long term Asian Greenhouse
Strategy on Environmental Sustainability of 21st century gas or coal ased carbon economy.

Agenda

Session 1:

• Introduction: Emerging energy & environmental policy approaches in 21st century
• Modeling and forecasting of energy demand in mid term prospective

Session 2:

• Energy business scorecard for emissions’ reductions at Asian energy market
• Dynamics of carbon trading & accounting, evolving Asian emissions’ trading scheme

Session 3:

• Sustainability indicators for energy systems in economic and environmental context
• Asian developments on long term carbon energy management in cdm context

Session 4:

• Conclusion – Economic modeling on environmental sustainability of Asian power & energy market

This Masterclass is designed to be interactive and participative. The  emphasis will be on each delegate sharing knowledge and experience to align determinants and variables to formulate Asia’s emissions’ trading scheme, within Asia’s power and energy sector.

About your leader

Dr. Jagdish P. N. Giri is a senior Executive and Founder Executive Director of his own Non-Governmental and not for-profit, Academic Foundation, named, “Aaditya Energy Foundation” based in Chennai, India. He is an internationally known energy professional and environmental activist and
is dedicated to lead a Global Movement for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, through his own creation as “Aaditya Energy Foundation.”

Objective

This Masterclass is focused on the challenges and opportunities surrounding funding solutions for power plant infrastructure including conventional and renewable energy

Agenda

1. Sustainable funding for power projects

• Varieties of project financing
• Local versus international funding
• Credit exposures in a project financing
• Key elements of a successful project financing
• Case studies and trends moving forward

Assessing the capital markets

• Capital market diversity
• Cost and return analysis
• Risks and gains evaluation
• Case studies and trends moving forward

Issuing stock or bonds?

• How it works and what suits you best?
• Who buys the shares or bonds?
• Risks and benefits for the company

Sponsor considerations

• The role of the sponsor on projects
• Internal rate of return
• Pricing considerations
• Debt versus equity risk
• Tensions between borrowers and lenders

Key risks and mitigation factors

• The Risk Matrix
• Risk analysis & mitigation
• Sponsor risk and commodities risk
• Financial risk and hedging
• Environmental and social risks

Processes

• The financial model and due diligence
• The credit and legal process
• Financial close

This Masterclass is led by leading Project Financer.