| Course: | Power System Operation: the Fundamentals | |
| Duration: | Three and half days | |
| Cost: | $2,500 single delegate $2,300 second delegate |
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| Date: | To be confirmed | |
| Location: | To be confirmed | |
Day 1: Fundamentals 9:30-17:00
| Session 1: Management of Supply and Demand |
| Session 2: System security - keeping the lights on (1) |
| Session 3: Renewable and Thermal Generators - their characteristics and impacts |
| Session 4: Case Studies |
Day 2: Operations 9:30-17:00
| Session 1: Interconnection across borders |
| Session 2: System Security (2) |
| Session 3: SMART networks |
| Session 4: Business Game part 1 |
Day 3: Economics 9:30-17:00
| Session 1: Optimising the Generation Mix |
| Session 2: Costing of system services |
| Session 3: Transmission investment justification |
| Session 4: Business Game Part 2 |
Day 4: Future challenges 9:30-12:00
| Session 1: Business Game Part 3 |
| Session 2: Actions and the way forward |
| Session 3: Conclusions |
This course is designed to help provide senior management with a wide ranging grounding in the key issues and challenges faced by system operators in Africa.
| This course is suitable for: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Government and State Owned Utilities | | Potential Investors | | Large consumers |
| Financial planners and accountants | | System Operators | | Regulators |
| Contract Negotiators and Legal Teams | | Market Operators | | Private Utilities |
| University developers and researchers | ||
| African utilities face the challenges of: | This course will cover: | |
|---|---|---|
| High growth in demand | 1) Management of supply and demand | |
| The need to find new, secure, sources of generation including renewables | 2) Optimising the mix of generation | |
| Increasing need for cross border interconnections and trading | 3) Renewables and their impacts | |
| Managing critically balanced supply/demand situations | 4) System security - keeping the lights on | |
| 5) Incidents, disturbances and contingencies | ||
| Download the brochure. | 6) Interconnection across borders | |
| 7) The cost of getting it wrong | ||
| 8) The financial benefit of getting it right |