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Conference Day One - Tuesday 1 April 2008
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08.30 | Registration
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09.00 | Chairperson’s opening remarks
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| ACHIEVING ENERGY SECURITY AND EFFICIENCY: POLICY UPDATES
AND REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS IN ASIA’S POWER SECTOR ( I ) |
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09.10 | Keynote Address – One on one interview with BBC World
Global energy developments – Implications on power
generation businesses
• Reviewing the drivers and trends that drive 21st century global
energy development
• Identifying the challenges and prospects for power generation
businesses
• Discussing critical lessons that can be learned from a global
energy player
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09.30 | Global Keynote: Fuelling the growth of the power industry in Asia: What needs to be done?
• Sustaining Asia’s boom through energy security – Implications
on the power generation market
• Status and prospects of power deregulation and liberalization
– what will be the impact on the stakeholders of the power
sector
• Moving forward – What are the imperatives to address the
increasing demand for energy in a carbon constrained world?
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10.00 | Policy updates: Addressing energy security in Asia through
regulatory development
Regulators from India, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and
Singapore will each make a 10 minute presentation on the
regulatory and liberalisation developments
• Understanding and anticipating country regulatory
developments to address energy security, efficiency and
climate change
• Beyond deregulation and liberalization – What needs to be
done to meet increasing energy demand?
• Opportunities and challenges for investors – Where the new
projects and opportunities are?
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10.30 | A rotating cocktail table format to meet all your
fellow attendees face to face in just 30 minutes.
Bring plenty of business cards along.
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11.00 | Morning refreshments
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| ACHIEVING ENERGY SECURITY AND EFFICIENCY: POLICY UPDATES
AND REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS IN ASIA’S POWER SECTOR ( II ) |
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11.30 | Regulation showcase: Addressing energy security in Asia
through regulatory development
• Understanding and anticipating country regulatory
developments to address energy security, efficiency and
climate change
• Beyond deregulation and liberalization – What needs to be
done to meet increasing energy demand?
• Opportunities and challenges for investors – Where the new
projects and opportunities are?
• Interconnected grids and the possibility of being able to export power: Is there an intention to do this? What is being done
to get to that point?
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12.30 | Dialogue with Asian regulators
Challenges in complying and preparing for future energy
regulations
• Identifying common issues and challenges in complying with
existing regulation
• Potential power reforms in Asia and understanding the
implications on power generators, transmission and distribution
companies, and investors
• Accelerating power generation projects through effective
regulator-generator working relationship
• Updates on who’s connected with whom and future plans to
an Asian grid: Is it possible?
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13.00 | Networking lunch
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13.55 | Chairperson's remarks |
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| CROSS BORDER TRANSMISSION DEVELOPMENTS AND
IMPLICATIONS FOR POWER GENERATORS AND RETAILERS |
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14.00 | Development of Asean Grid: Status, timeline and
implications by HAPUA
• Find out how individual countries are developing their national
grid to connect to neighouring countries
• Is forming an ASEAN grid a dream or a possible reality?
• Understanding key challenges that need to be resolved: Pricing,
infrastructure developments, ownership, cross border trading
and other regulatory issues
• Assessing potential opportunities for power generators, T&D
companies and retailers with the formation of a truly ASEAN
grid
• How individual players should prepare themselves when
ASEAN grid becomes a reality |
| | Dr Suthep Chimklai, Director , System Planning Division, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
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15.00 | Taking advantage of cheap fuel sources with extensive grid
interconnection and the various benefits this offers
• Identifying challenges and issues that arose in the power grid
interconnection
• Finding out the strategies that are adopted to overcome the
issues such as pricing, trading, interoperability and connectivity
• Understanding the implications for all relevant stakeholders
including consumers and how grid interconnection gives you
wider and better options for a cheaper and more efficient
electrification |
| | Mr Leslie Hosking, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, National Electricity Market Management Company
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15.30 | Afternoon refreshments
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| SMART GRID: ACHIEVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND OPTIMIZING
T&D MANAGEMENT |
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16.00 | Automated Meter Infrastructure for the Grid
Why AMI is required to enable the Smart Grid? Which parts of the business need to change with the introduction of AMI ? Additionally blending the Customer Relationship Organization and the Service / Work Management groups together with AMI has a tremendous potential value for utilities.
· What Business Processes are Involved ?
· How can the EAM Organization benefit from AMI ? ( Putting the AMI system to Work )
· Some lessons learnt from the introduction of Deregulation processes
· What are the customer service processes that need to change
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16.30 | Learn how the Transmission Geographic Information System
(TGIS) helped KEPCO in managing the company’s huge
electricity transmission data
• Understand what a TGIS is and what it can do
• Discover the challenges KEPCO faced before its full integration into the grid
• Assess the investment needed and determine the potential
ROI – “... which has not only led to greater efficiency but also
cost savings”
• Know the three-phase implementation of TGIS in detail
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| | Mr M D Kim, Senior Vice President, Transmission Division, Korea Electric Power Corporation, KEPCO
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16.50 | The world’s smart grid forerunners’ right at our own backyard: Find out how India is adopting the latest innovation to optimize energy efficiency and T&D management
“We’re sitting on an aged, old infrastructure while emerging countries like India and China are moving to the next generation of networks and generation sources.”
CNET News, 16 May 2007
• Finding out the plans and timeline toward creating a smart
grid system in India
• Understanding the mission, vision and principle behind huge
capital spending; what does India foresee after project
completion
• Identifying key challenges in adopting and implementing a
smart grid system
• Forecasting potential returns over the next decade |
| | Dr R P Singh, Chairman & MD, Powergrid Corporation of India Ltd
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17.10 | Executive interviews and Q&A
Take this opportunity to learn India and Korea’s strategies in-depth
towards the development of their smart national electric grids. As
the moderator interviews them in this session you may also ask
your questions and actively participate in this highly interactive
session for maximum learning. |
| | Mr M D Kim, Senior Vice President, Transmission Division, Korea Electric Power Corporation, KEPCO Dr R P Singh, Chairman & MD, Powergrid Corporation of India Ltd
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17.15 | Chairman’s closing remarks
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18.00 | Singapore Flyer Cocktail & Power Dinner
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Conference Day Two - Wednesday 2 April 2008
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08.30 | Registration
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08.50 | Chairperson’s opening remarks
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| SMART GRID: CREATING A SECURE & RELIABLE GRID |
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09.00 | Implementation of Distribution SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) – A technology which pays for itself
• Enhancing reliability, higher revenues and more satisfied customers with superior outage management
• Reducing electricity theft by focused control of vulnerable sections of the network
• Optimising investment and efficient utilization of assets with load flow analysis capabilities
• Ensuring safety and better management of risks to assets and lives with a fully transparent and visible network
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09.30 | The Smart Grid & Distribution Automation - A Case Study
One of Australia’s largest electricity distributors has implemented the first large scale automatic restoration system. The business benefits from the system are provided by avoiding customer rebates payable for extended loss of supply. The business case called for large savings in rebates payable if a system could be implemented to restore many common outages in under a minute as these momentary outages do not incur rebates. This distributor undertook to implement with Oracle a solution using standard Oracle products and SCADA integration to implement such a system. The system uses real-time status from the SCADA and DMS to automatically detect faults and when detected to auto restore the faults using feeder tie points, with full calculation of loadings so that the restoration does not violate limits on the restoring or restored feeder section. The system is implemented in the DMS/SCADA Master Station and requires no special hardware devices. The system has recently been rolled out live in production |
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10.00 | Morning refreshments
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10.30 | Curbing US$6B potential aggregate technical and commercial
losses in electricity transmission and distribution
• Appreciating the seriousness of illegal wiring in India
• Learning from Bicol, Philippines falling tower and what
TRANSCO is doing to eliminate sawing off the towers’ steel
parts
• Making your infrastructure withstand your country’s yearly
typhoons
• implication of these losses which in some estimates could
cover cost of new power plant |
| | Mr Crispin Lamayan, Vice President for Systems Operations, National Transmission Corporation
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| CONNECTIVITY TO OFF-GRID ENERGY SOURCES: FROM
RENEWABLES OR CAPTIVE POWER IN INDUSTRIES AND HUGE
MANUFACTURING PLANTS |
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11.30 | Connecting renewable energy to the grid - key advantages,
costs and constraints
• Developing a market for grid-connected renewable energy
• Identifying fundamental infrastructure, technologies, processes
and regulatory climate that need to be in place to allow
renewable energies to be fed into the national grid
• Finding out what need to be prepared prior to connecting
renewable energies to the grid
• Find out the steps and procedures taken in meting out the
project of feeding hundreds of MW power of renewable energy
into the grid
• Leverage from the successes and failures in connecting
renewable energy to the grid and the grid solutions taken to
prevent the network from seemingly intermittent surges of
power
• Gain an understanding into the kind of upgrades T&D needs
to accommodate different renewable sources with their salient
characteristics, into its network |
| | Dr Suthep Chimklai, Director , System Planning Division, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
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12.00 | Connecting large industrial in-house power generation capacity to the grid
• Know how to prepare for large industrial and manufacturing
plants captive power generation’s incorporation into the grid
• Determine rules of engagement, players, relationships and
where to base pricing on
• Understand the implications and risks to grid capacity and
regulating the fluctuations on peak and off-peak surges of
power to the grid |
| | Mr David Sweet, Executive Director, World Alliance for Decentralized Energy
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12.30 | Networking lunch
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13.30 | Exporting power and the rules that bind
• Find out what is stopping already interconnected countries,
states, provinces and private industrial and manufacturing
plants with captive power generation from selling and/or
buying power
• Determine all mitigating factors and learn how to counter
them to maximize benefits for buyer and seller
• Learn where to base pricing and consider transmission and
distribution fees |
| | Mr TN Thakur, Chairman & Managing Director, Power Trading Corporation
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| ELECTRICITY WHOLESALING AND RETAILING |
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14.00 | Wholesale market design issues and lessons from current
markets
• Find out how energy markets evolved from monopolistic,
regulated economies to deregulated, liberalized, wholesale
markets
• Learn what the hurdles were and how pioneer Asian market
operators were able to overcome them
• Understand what the issues are at present and hear what’s
next
• Leverage on the lessons learnt by KPX, JPX, WESM, Power
Trading Corp, India and EMC |
| | Mr TN Thakur, Chairman & Managing Director, Power Trading Corporation Mr Do-young Chun, General Manager of KPX, Head-Research & Technology Development Department , Korea Power Exchange Mr David Sweet, Executive Director, World Alliance for Decentralized Energy
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| PRICING AND DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT |
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15.00 | Demand-side management
• What are the hurdles to effective demand-side participation
in wholesale electricity markets?
• How can effective demand-side participation be achieved?
• What are the benefits of effective demand-side participation?
• Examples from Asian markets |
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15.30 | Afternoon refreshments
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16.00 | Wholesale market pricing issues
• What role do prices play in a liberalized electricity market?
• When should nodal, zonal, or national pricing be used?
• When should prices be determined – before electricity is taken
or afterwards?
• How does transmission pricing relate to wholesale market
pricing? |
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16.30 | Inelasticity or elasticity of electricity pricing; comparing both
In this session, participants will be divided in 5 groups to discuss
the questions below for 20 minutes. Each group will be assigned
a facilitator but the group will have to designate someone who
will write and another who will report if the group is chosen. Only
a few will be asked to share after the round-table discussion due
to time constraints.
• Will a volatile, market based electricity pricing in the developing,
poor countries in Asia?
• When is a regulated electricity price advisable?
• What are the benefits of a market-based electricity pricing?
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17.30 | Q&A on pricing
This will open the floor for anyone to ask questions based on presentations by the market operators and the summation of each group from the round-table session. The facilitators will continue to act as moderators in each group to make sure questions of the group are asked and answers posed to them are answered in an orderly and cohesive way. The chairman for this session will moderate the entire discussion to keep everyone on track and to keep the discussion up to par with the interesting issues on electricity pricing, trading and hedging.
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17.50 | Chairman’s closing remarks
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18.00 | Asia Power & Energy’s Trivia Night - Cocktails
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Pre-conference Day Monday 31 March 2008
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09.00 | Setting Up Electricity Trading Markets: Wholesale And/Or Retail
There are only 5 countries in Asia that have wholesale electricity markets
up and running: Korea, Singapore, Philippines, Japan and East China. Just
recently, India announced their upcoming electricity market. There are
other countries which have expressed interest or are in the process of
setting up one. Whatever the status is, even those 5 who have electricity
markets in place, these are still in infancy stage and a discussion of basics
as well as benefits, challenges, issues will be helpful.
This workshop will give you the A-Z of setting up electricity markets and
will allow you to gain more from a highly interactive, informal set up
whether you are still thinking about setting up one, just set up one or
have set up one but want to go into a more full-scale liberalised electricity
market.
• Know what the basic power stakeholder structure, players,
infrastructure, laws and policies are to start up an electricity wholesale
market; is it necessary to unbundled generation, transmission and
distribution?
• Define a set of general rules on how electricity can be traded; pricing
• Understand the actual system through which generators have to
offer wholesale electricity and from which purchasers had to buy it
• Learn the mechanism by which wholesale prices are set, for each
half hour, and plant was dispatched
• Establish the settlement system by which generators are paid and
suppliers are charged
• Gain insights into the salient features of the Asian culture that
challenge or serve as an advantage to an electricity market
• Do market set ups always have to start from power pooling, then
wholesale before going into partial retail and full retail electricity
markets? What are the advantages and disadvantages? |
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Post-conference Day Thursday 3 April 2008
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09.00 | Reducing aggregate technical & commercial losses on T&D
It was a surprise to discover that even developed countries like Singapore
suffer from wide-scale electricity theft and pilferage. One of the most
baffling ways of thievery here is when clients declare themselves bankrupt.
Electricity distribution companies and retailers resort to courts and the
justice system. Sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; which
serves as a double whammy. You spend money to file and fight the case
for electricity you supplied which will never be settled.
India is estimated to lose 30-40% of their profits to thieves or a loss of
$6B a year, enough to cover the cost of constructing new electric power
plants. Physical spot checks and crackdowns are what they do to address
the problem which they admit can be a dicey affair.
Worldwide theft is estimated to exceed the total electricity demand of
Germany, UK and France, the 3rd, 4th and 5th largest economies of the
world.
This workshop will survey the cross-country experience of electricity theft
allowing you to understand the different methods used to steal power
plus, of course, offer you strategies and techniques and update you with
the latest technology to curb theft.
• Introduction to T&D and Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C)
losses
• Impact of T&D losses
• Components of T&D Losses
• Estimation of T&D Losses
• Energy audit & selection of sample size
• Level of T&D losses (national & international)
• National electricity policy on T&D losses
• Provisions under Indian Electricity Act 2003 to avoid pilferage
• Regulatory concerns & approaches to T&D loss reduction
• Reasons for High T&D Losses (technical & commercial)
• State of the art technologies in reducing the technical & commercial
losses
• Initiatives required from government / regulator, utilities and
consumers to mitigate the losses |
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