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African Utility Week 2010

January 2010 News

Join 2000 of your peers at African Utility Week 2010 – Africa’s largest power utility conference and exhibition. Find out how you can optimise revenue collection, improve service delivery, extend access to electricity services - and save money!

The power sector in Africa is under pressure to extend supply to un-serviced areas and maintain a healthy ratio of expenses to revenue collection – yet utilities are facing budget cuts, skills shortages and the task of maintaining and upgrading ageing infrastructure.

African Utility Week 2010 takes place in Durban, South Africa from 22–25 February 2010 and it will give practical insight and best practice experience from speakers from across the globe on issues around revenue collection, the business case for smart metering in electricity, renewable feed-in tariffs, and the implementation of the smart grid in Africa.

In order to realise the revenue potential of your utility, we will be examining a number of practical issues which impact on the daily lives of all utility leaders and managers:

* Choosing the right equipment to meet your specific needs.

* Strategies for implementing renewable energy into your distribution networks.

* Financing the refurbishment of existing infrastructure.

* The role of the smart grid in Africa.

* Managing peak load from the supply side.

* Diversification of your energy mix.

Hear from Roy Weinand, deputy manager, eThekwini Electricity, on how eThekwini is using landfill gas to provide electricity to the city. Let William Amuna, manager, Volta River Authority share his experiences with the Ghanaian smart grid pilot, while Mehret Debebe, managing director of the Ethiopian Electricity Company, will talk about the implementation of the Ashegoba wind project.

New and unique to African Utility Week

Our expert consultants will take you on a tour of the exhibition floor to give you first hand insight into how the companies exhibiting at African Utility Week have the solutions for your unique situation.  We have chosen experts from various disciplines to lead our tours and we are pleased to announce them as:

* Metering, Billing/CRM tour leader: Howard Scott, managing director, Cognyst Advisors, United States.

* Generation Africa tour leader: Doug Kuni, managing director, Independent Power Producers’ Association, South Africa.

* Renewable Energy Africa tour leader: Glynn Morris, managing director, Agama Energy, South Africa.

* Smart Grids/Transmission and Distribution Africa tour leader: Simon  Giles, Global Lead for Smart Cities, Accenture, United Kingdom.

* Water Utilities Africa tour leader: Tony Ceronio, managing director, CSV Water, South Africa.</i>

African Utility Week – where everyone who is anyone will be!

African Utility Week provides you with an unmissable networking opportunity! We recognise that for your utility services to work successfully you need partners! Meet key stakeholders from the whole power ecosystem, including other utilities, government stakeholders, regulators, power pools and vendors.

With more than 1600 attendees at African utility Week 2009, we are brining you face to face with the entire landscape of decision makers from ministers and government officials, managing directors and general managers, procurement managers, engineers, project leaders and advisers. This year we have extended capacity to cater for over 2000 attendees and the expanded exhibition area will feature over 150 exhibits from the world’s most innovative power technology and service providers.

We provide practical, ‘how to do it’ advice, delivered by practitioners with market-proven experience. Do not miss our pre-conference workshops which offer practical know-how on:

* Workforce planning, development and retention.

* The roadmap to a successful co-generation project.

* How effective customer relationship management can improve your customer’s experience.

* Integrating renewable energy into your municipal energy mix.

* Developing and implementing a pre-payment metering programme.

How to register

Register before 15 January 2010 to qualify for the early bird registration rate. Do not delay – with capacity for only 2000 attendees, space is limited. Book your seat today to avoid disappointment by using one of these easy ways to register:

Telephone: +27 21 700 3500 – ask for Zonika Koen

Fax: +27 (0)21 700 3501

E-mail: [email protected]

Online: www.african-utility-week.com





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