Strategic Power Track

Market structure and regulation
• Country or regional power sector overviews
• Environmental policy & regulation
• Market regulation
• Market restructuring
• Pricing and tariff structures
• Privatization strategies
• System Planning

Strategic Planning
• Supply and demand management
• Planning for growth
• Security of supply
• Fuel mix and fuel supplies
• Energy investment requirements in the region
• Grid interconnection projects
• Utility management experiences
• Outsourcing initiatives

Emerging market trends
• Current and future trends in power generation
• Distributed generation
• Nuclear power generation
• Renewable power generation
• Cogeneration

Industry investment
• Asset acquisition/ M & A
• Attracting foreign capital
• Regional and international investment strategies

Project Issues
• Financing and lending – options, cost & access
• Asset management
• Project management
• Project case studies
• Contract negotiation and legal issues
• Choice and availability of developer and EPC
• Economics of power/water production
• Risk management
• Project costs/procurement bottlenecks
• Project structures e.g. IWPP, IPP, BOO, BOOT

Technical Power Track

Power generation technologies
• Advanced power generation technologies
• Boiler and HRSG designs
• CHP and trigeneration plants
• Integrated power and water projects
• Combined cycle systems
• Oil and duel fuel engines
• Gasification
• Advanced gas turbines
• Gas turbine upgrades
• Genset technology
• Steam turbines
• Conventional thermal power plants
• Wind power
• Solar/PV power
• Nuclear reactor designs
• Carbon capture & storage
• Emissions control

Operation and maintenance
• Instrumentation and control
• Maintenance and servicing
• Outage management
• Plant monitoring and diagnostics
• Plant optimization and economics
• Refurbishment, repowering and life extension
• Training, research and education
• Security systems

Power augmentation
• Improving power plant efficiency
• Dry air injection
• Turbine inlet cooling technologies

Transmission and distribution
• Energy management and conservation
• Smart Grid technologies
• Network interconnections
• HVDC and FACTS technologies
• Scada systems and network control
• Substation design
• Transformer technologies
• Transmission and distribution planning
• Metering technologies

Water Track

Water sector structure and regulation
• Country or regional water sector overviews
• Integrated water resource management
• Transboundary water issues
• Water market regulation
• Pricing and tariff structures
• Environmental regulation
• System planning and asset management

Strategic planning & management
• Utility management experiences
• Project planning
• Project financing
• Environmental impact
• Supply and demand management
• Water use/reuse
• Notable case studies
• Groundwater management
• Cooling water efficiency

Desalination
• Plant rehabilitation and upgrading
• Process selection MSF, MED, RO
• Efficiencies/cost control
• Membranes performance and maintenance
• New desalination technologies
• Removal of specific compounds
• Seawater scrubbing and mineral recovery
• Emissions reduction technologies
• Water losses
• Desalination optimization
• Power and water optimization

Water treatment
• Plant design
• Instrumentation, quality control and standards
• Pumps, blowers and energy efficiency
• Purification technology
• Membrane filtration
• Pre-treatment & other efficiency enhancements

Wastewater treatment
• Design of plants
• Measurement, analysis and standards
• Disinfection
• Nutrient reduction
• Odour control
• Sludge treatment and disposal
• Biosolids and biogas recovery

Collection and distribution networks
• System operation and maintenance
• Pipe laying and cleaning
• Rehabilitation
• Tanks and water storage
• Corrosion control
• Water losses and leakage control
• Sensors, meters and SCADA control
• GIS technology and modelling software