Didier Farez; Vice President Southern Africa
Alstom Global Power Sales

    • Addressing the current crisis and the dwindling capacity surplus
• Development of a domestic power generation business
• Issues surrounding management of utility investment
• Consequences of the current investment strategy in energy

Thulani Gcabashe, Chief Executive Officer
Eskom, South Africa

• Identifying and accessing opportunities in the energy market
• Maximising effective use of national energy efficiency initiatives
• The optimal energy mix of the future
• Accessing of nuclear power in the energy industry
• Focusing on restructuring and conditions of licensing
• Corporatising the electricity business?

Honourable Minister Buyelwa Patience Sonjica
Department of Minerals and Energy, South Africa

• Regional requirements to ensure security of supply
• Focusing on scaling up on regional energy access
• Reserve estimation and implications of regional fossil fuels

Dr Lawrence Musaba, Co-ordination Centre Manager
Southern African Power Pool, Zimbabwe

• Global trends for providing energy
• The increasing emphasis on energy sustainability and security
• Attracting investment to African regional markets
• Examining the nuclear sector and lessons to be learnt by Africa

Dr Alioune Fall, Vice-Chairperson for Africa
World Energy Council, Senega

• Leveraging partnerships and criteria for optimal integration
• Strengthening vertical integration of utilities within power pools
• Proposed pricing models for SADC interconnection
• Credible integration of a regional transmission system
• Barriers to cross border energy trading

Thomas Lokala, Chief Operating Officer
Westcor, Botswana

• Assessing the re-investment strategy and its impact on stability and reliability of supply
• Focus on Project Hotel and Project Alpha – commissioning of power stations
• Re-commissioning of mothballed power stations and infrastructure refurbishment

Brian Dames, Managing Director
Enterprises Division Eskom

• Analysing the regional security of supply considerations
• Investment and regulatory signals for regional security
• Implications and lessons for the rest of SADC

Rhodnie Sisala, Chief Executive Officer
Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation, Zambia

• Effective regulation for a monopolistic market
• Optimal pricing structure and tariffs in the market
• Policy to encourage private sector participation and IPP development
• Legislation affecting the sector: The Electricity Distribution Industry Bill

Thembani Bukula, Regulator Member – Electricity
National Energy Regulator of South Africa

Didier Farez; Vice President Southern Africa
Alstom Global Power Sales

• Strategies for better market design and regulatory framework
• Strategic planning to operate a safe and reliable electric system
• Providing open and non-discriminatory transmission services
• Facilitating appropriate investment in infrastructure

Yakout Mansour, President and Chief Executive Officer,
California Independent System Operator, United States of America

• Stakeholder consideration in driving restructuring
• Merits of vertical integration of power utilities
• Application of competition in a defined market

Phindile Nzimande, Chief Executive Officer
EDI Holdings, South Africa

• Implications of the proposed legislation set to govern REDs
• Addressing the issues of ownership and control, transfer instruments and compensation models
• Tariff and price structures and the effect on affordability and investment
• Assessing the viability of introducing REDs into African countries

Saleem Mowzer, Chief Executive Officer
RED1, South Africa

• ‘The emperor’s new clothes’ – the sanity around EDI?
• Re-assessing the main problem to be addressed by EDI restructuring
• Contradictions in current legislation and regulatory setup
• Optimal method of restructuring the industry 5 years on

Thiru Pillay, Partner: Energy
Deloitte & Touche, South Africa

• Implication of restructuring and tariff negotiations
• Optimal license conditions and regulatory expectations
• Lessons to be learned from implementation of RED1
• Future of REDs: progress on the implementation of remaining REDs

Saleem Mowzer, Chief Executive Officer
RED1, South Africa

Gerhard Coeln, Chief Executive Officer
Erongo RED, Namibia

Phindile Nzimande, Chief Executive Officer
EDI Holdings, South Africa

Thiru Pillay, Partner: Energy
Deloitte & Touche, South Africa

• Guaranteeing returns for alternative investment
• Risk allocations & mitigating techniques as security requirements
• Role of policy and regulation in attracting investment

Anand Naidoo, Investment Banker: Power and Energy
Absa Capital, South Africa

• Leveraging private finance alongside public investments
• Creating / investing in a diverse and robust energy mix
• Mitigating political risks in infrastructure projects
• Unlocking additional revenue streams in existing projects
• ROI and power investment the eternal divide

Charles Lewis, Infrastructure Finance
Macquarie Africa, South Africa

Anand Naidoo, Investment Banker: Power and Energy
Absa Capital, South Africa

Gregory Kinross, President
CIC Energy Corp, South Africa

Karen Breytenbach, Senior Project Advisor – Financial Analysis within PPP,
National Treasury, South Africa

• Recent trends in cross border transactions
• Satisfying regional demands
• The PPA and the Off Taker’s perspective

Joseph A Tato, Partner & Head of Global Projects and Infrastructure Finance Group,
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP, United States of America

• Infrastructure plans for regional gas reserves
• Proposed regulations for the gas market and gas supply
• Expected growth and demand within the gas industry
• Knock-on affect for the coal industry?

Peter Bateman, Director
Kalahari Gas Corporation, Botswana

Peter Metcalfe, Chief Executive Officer
Foundation for the Development of Africa

    
Manny Singh, General Manager
Energy Development Corporation

Kadri Nassiep, Chief Executive Officer
South African National Energy Research Institute

• Analysing the macroeconomic context, foreign direct investment and the role of local capital market
• Assessing risk allocation and the investment climate
• Challenges and benefits of a decentralised but partially privatised market structure
• Reviewing lessons learnt from Tanzanian market reform efforts

Charles Omujuni, Director of Natural Gas
Energy and Water Utility Regulatory Authority, Tanzania

• Current progress on IPP involvement within the power sector
• Regulation and policy for IPP development
• Effectively balancing expectations and outcomes of IPP’s
• Analysing available guarantees for returns for IPP’s
• Optimal market structure focusing on the relationship with utilities

Anton-Louis Olivier, Director
NUPLANET – Clean Energy, South Africa

• Assessing implementation strategies for LED technology
• Maximising on LED technology application and energy efficiency initiatives
• Analysing municipal level implementation and overall tie-in with the DSM concept

Luc Escoute, General Manager: Lighting
Philips, South Africa

• Maximising opportunities from Africa’s first natural-gas-fired industrial cogeneration plant
• Regulation and policy to promote cogeneration: Energy Efficiency Accord
• Economic realities of reduced dependence on the grid
• Co-generation and carbon-credit accreditation

Ciska Terblanche, Mondi Gas Turbine Project
Mondi Business Paper, South Africa

• Current feasibility of renewable energy as part of South Africa’s current and future energy mix
• Analysing the current role of renewables in non-transmission and distribution areas
• The cost implications of new technologies on the sector

Carmen Armstrong, Regional Manager
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, South Africa

• Aligning with government targets for renewable energy
• Assessing the potential level of integration to the national grid
• Bankability versus feasibility of renewable energy projects

Hermann Oelsner, Chairman
Darling Independent Power Producer, South Africa

• Policy and regulation to facilitate inclusion of renewable energies into Africa’s energy mix
• Increasing public and private funding for renewable energy
• Off grid electricity solutions for sustainable development
• ROI and bankability in the spotlight

Anton-Louis Olivier, Director
NUPLANET – Clean Energy, South Africa

Carmen Armstrong, Regional Manager
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, South Africa

Hermann Oelsner, Chairman
Darling Independent Power Producer, South Africa

Klaus-Dieter, Chief Operating Officer
Babcock-Hitachi Europe, Germany

• Ownership of an essential component in the value chain
• Opportunities from convergence of metering, billing and CRM systems and strategies in a competitive marketplace
• Analysing optimal positioning to provide future CRM solutions

Ari Geva, Director
Intelligent Metering Systems, South Africa

• Analysing institutional and administrative efficiencies through effective tariff and revenue collection
• Optimising energy budgeting and management through usage of prepaid meter systems
• Maximising efficiencies through the convergence of metering, billing and CRM systems

Dr Walter Smuts, Managing Director
Experton, South Africa

• Examining implications of an external service delivery mechanism
• Optimising service delivery agreements
• Involvement of communities in service provision and monitoring of the performance of service providers

Tembeni Lobe, Chief Executive Officer
CENTLEC, South Africa

Manny Singh, General Manager
Energy Development Corporation
Kadri Nassiep, Chief Executive Officer
South African National Energy Research Institute

Morning and afternoon refreshments, as well as lunch, are scheduled into the day’s proceedings.

Objective

The full day masterclass will deal with the development of organisational energy management strategies and focus on essential activities for any organisation interested in controlling its energy and utility costs.

Agenda

• Identify the culture in your business
• Assess current organisational energy management capacity
• Make the business case
• Devise a strategy for sustainable implementation

Masterclass presenter

Denis van Es
Group Leader
Energy Research Centre, South Africa

Denis van Es has over thirty years experience as an engineer, particularly in the mechanical building services industry with a special interest in energy efficiency and conservation. He has held positions with engineering consultancies, contractors and manufacturers, including at director and managing director level. Denis spent several
years in the UK electricity supply industry, including time as a researcher into the use of heat pump technology in domestic and commercial premises. He presented a paper on this research at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London and has contributed to two publications on heat pump topics. He is currently Group Leader,
Energy Efficiency, at the Energy Research Centre of the University of Cape Town. Much of his present work relates to Demand Side Management and related  Measurement & Verification. Denis is registered as a Professional Engineer in South Africa and as a Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom.

Morning and afternoon refreshments, as well as lunch, are scheduled into the day’s proceedings.

Objective

The masterclass will assist with investigating the extent of both technical and non-technical losses, policy formulation, revenue protection strategies and campaign planning. The workshop will also look at the revenue team and changing attitudes within the entire utility towards revenue protection.

Agenda

1. Needs analyses
• A short exercise to determine your own strengths
• Weaknesses, opportunities and threats for your specific area of responsibility; by implementing specific Revenue Protection principles

2. Planning
• Reducing losses the “Integrated Way”
• Planning a successful Revenue Protection project
• Establishing a Revenue Loss Forum (RLF)
• Deploying of Revenue Protection operators
• Establishing the correct tools / equipment to be used

3. Project management
• The revenue protection way of project management, proposals, tenders and the selecting of the correct personnel / contactor
• Managing revenue protection operational processes

4. Administration
• Understanding the different revenue protection forms and the techniques of how to capture and manage your auditing data

5. Directives
• Revenue protection procedures
• Laws and by-laws • Code of conduct
• Tampering policy • Sealing policy

6 Tampering
• Overview of the different kinds of tampering with meters, prevention methods and the different remedial options

7. Metering
• How to develop a “revenue protection friendly” metering strategy

8. Skills development
• The techniques to develop meter auditing, data capturing teambuilding and presentation skills, in order to establish an effective revenue protection unit

Masterclass presenter

Rens Bindeman
Managing Director
Revenue Investigations, South Africa

Mr Bindeman is currently a Revenue Protection Consultant operating in various projects throughout the Africa. His experience in this field was obtained over a period of 11 years actual Revenue Protection operations, as well as 10 years of other related service eg investigations and security operations. He is currently Managing Director of the companies Revenue Investigations (RP auditing company) and Umbane House (24 hour vending facilities selling prepaid electricity). Mr Bindeman is currently the Chairman of the Western Cape Branch of SARPA (South African Revenue Protection Association) and an Executive Member of the same association. He is also the Chairman of the Southern Cape NFTCC (Non Ferrous Theft Combating Committee)
and an Executive Member of the same association.