EE Business Intelligence, in association with USAID, Power Africa and Agora Energiewende, is hosting a series of training webinars presented by internationally acclaimed energy expert, consultant, editor and author, Dr Fereidoon Sioshansi of Menlo Energy Economics, San Francisco, USA.
The training webinars are to prepare electricity utilities, municipal electricity distributors and customers for the electricity industry and systems of the future.
The subject matter of the training webinars is wide-ranging. The first three introductory training webinars detailed below will set the scene in preparation for further in-depth training covered in some of the forthcoming topics detailed here.
Ticket costs and payments
The cost of a ticket to attend is R380 excl. VAT per person, per training webinar. Payment can be made online by Credit Card or EFT. Tax invoices and payment receipts will be issued for all ticket sales.
Training webinar 1: The electric power transition: the disruptive changes ahead
This first of three introductory training webinars details how the power sector is being transformed, and what is happening to the main segments of the value chain – generation, transmission, distribution and retail.
Date: Wednesday 9 November 2022
Time: 15h00 to 17h00 South Africa time (GMT+2)
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Training webinar 2: Upstream and downstream: The changing world of generators and customers
This second of three introductory training webinars focuses on what is happening in the generation sector and on the demand side.
Date: Tuesday 6 December 2022
Time: 15h00 to 17h00 South Africa time (GMT+2)
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Training webinar 3: Behind the meter: The evolution of customers and the space behind the meter
This final introductory webinar details how the transition of consumers to prosumers and prosumagers is leading to nonsumers and flexumers, and why developments behind-the-meter really matter.
Date: Tuesday 24 January 2023
Time: 15h00 to 17h00 South Africa time (GMT+2)
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About the presenter: Dr Fereidoon Sioshansi
Dr Sioshansi is President of Menlo Energy Economics, a specialist energy consulting and training firm based in San Francisco, California, advising clients on the rapid transformation of the electricity sector and emerging business models. He has over four decades of experience covering all aspects of the electricity power sector.
Dr Sioshansi is the editor and publisher of EEnergy Informer, a monthly newsletter with international circulation, now in its 32nd year of continuous publication.
Dr Sioshansi’s professional experience includes working at:
- Southern California Edison Company (SCE).
- The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
- National Economic Research Associates (NERA).
- Henwood Energy, now part of ABB.
Dr Sioshansi has degrees in engineering and economics, including an MSc and PhD in economics from Purdue University.
Since 2006, Dr Sioshansi has edited 14 books, all published by Academic Press on topics that cover virtually all aspects of the electric power sector:
- Energy Communities: Customer-centred, market-driven, welfare enhancing? 2022
- Variable Generation, Flexible Demand, 2021
- Behind and Beyond the Meter: Digitalisation, aggregation, optimisation, monetisation, 2020
- Consumers, prosumers, prosumagers: How new service innovations are disrupting the utility business models, 2019.
- Innovation and Disruption at the Grid’s Edge: How distributed energy resources are disrupting the traditional utility business model, 2017.
- Utilities of the Future; Future of Utilities: How technological innovations in distributed generation will reshape the electric power sector, 2016.
- Distributed Generation and its Implications for the Utility Industry, 2014.
- Evolution of Global Electricity Markets: New paradigms, new challenges, new approaches, 2013.
- Energy Efficiency: Towards the end of electricity demand growth, 2013.
- Smart Grid: Integrating renewable, distributed and efficient energy, 2011.
- Energy Sustainability and the Environment: Technology, incentives, behaviour, 2011.
- Generating Electricity in a Carbon Constrained World, 2009.
- Competitive Electricity Markets: Design, implementation, performance, 2008.
- Electricity Market Reform: An international perspective, 2006.
Dr Sioshansi is currently working on Volume 15 of The Future of Decentralised Distribution Networks.
About your host: Chris Yelland
Chris Yelland is a highly respected South African energy expert and managing director of EE Business Intelligence.
EE Business Intelligence strives to be a positive formative influence on policy, economic, social, regulatory, standardisation, training and business development in the energy, electricity and ICT sectors of Africa. Its activities and services include thought leadership, analysis, research, consulting, special assignments, business intelligence, strategic event facilitation and management, and public, corporate and media speaking engagements and commentary.
For more information contact Chris Yelland, EE Business Intelligence, chris.yelland@ee.co.za, http://www.eebi.co.za
