Since 'savings' are the return on investment from energy efficiency, ESCOs, equipment vendors, project developers, facility owners and financial institutions all rely on the achievement of savings from the energy efficiency technologies and methods which they have implemented or invested in.
The only real way to ensure the long-term achievement and persistence of energy savings is to establish, up-front, a cost-effective measurement and verification plan that is followed throughout the useful life of the energy assets installed. While the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP) provides well-established options and widely accepted guidelines for an M&V plan, it does not provide specific direction or show how to apply these options in real-life projects.

This half-day seminar will provide an opportunity to see how IPMVP's 4 options are applied in the marketplace in energy efficiency projects actually implemented around the world.

Overview of the International Performance Measurement & Verification Protocol (IPMVP)

How to apply each of IPMVP's 4 options in practical ways

ESCO strategies for valuing savings and mitigating related performance risks

Actual project examples in applying savings M&V:
Commercial building case study
Hospital case study
Textile process case study
Steel case study

ESCO management

Facility managers and owners

Energy engineers

Bankers and financiers

Energy efficiency suppliers

Energy auditors

Potential ESCO developers

The National Treasury's PPP Unit has published PPP guidlines that feature extensive procurement processes and procedures where government obtains private sector participation in the provision of public services/Public Privates Partnerships' (PPPs).

This workshop will take you through these guidelines - not only in the context of the procurement of PPPs by government,but also in the context of private sector procurement generally, and the application of the guidelines' principles in private sector outsourcing initiatives.

The importance of robust, standardisation procurement processes in PPPs

The application of these processes in private sector tendering

The importance of contract management subsequent to procurement

Selecting a procurement process for your organisation

Government officials

Procurement officers

Investment officersz

Energy managers

Utility CEO's

Project managers

James has a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of San Francisco, USA, and has been involved with PPPs for over thirty years in Africa, the US, Europe, South America and the Caribbean, many involving independent Power Production (IPPs).

Since coming to South Africa in 1998, James has advised South African local, provincial and national departments on all aspects of assessing and procuring private sector participation in the provision of government services in the electricity generation and distribution sectors, water and sanitation services, fleet management, health and tourism sectors. Aiello has also participated in extensive training in terms of assessing and procuring PPPs throughout SADC, in Mozambique, Tanzania, Botswana and Mauritius. He is currently advising the Government in Botswana on PPP policy and procurement framework, athe PP unit at National Treasury of Municipal PPP guidelines.

Many Electricity meters are now all-electronic, as are some gas and water meters. Most have some form of electric circuitry(circuits in gas and water meters are kept alive by long-life batteries). In addition to revenue billing , many electricy, gas and water meters are also used for time-of-use billing as well as for the planning and rporting purposes, real-time pricing and emergency response. Electricity meters have grown in sophisticatoin ot address load aggregation, energy use diagnotics and power quality, among other uses.

With the introduction of automation in many other industries, it was inevitatble that more sophisticated metering would be introduced to the world's utilities. Primary through the introduction of control circuits and communication interfaces in meters, basic emtering functions have progressed to advanced metering. The widest use of advanced metering has been for automoatic meter reading (AMR), though closely related technologies also perform prepay metering, submetering, outage management, and remote disconnnect (for both remote shutoff and active load control). By the beginning of 2005, over 100 million AMR unites were deployed worldwide and manyu millions of units have been deployed since then.

This workshop offers a compreshensive look at advanced metering methods to assit against theft of elecgtricity and provices an in-depth analysis oin worldwide trends, focusing on a review of the technology and deployment options available to electricity, gas and water utilities and the practical aspects of esploring vendor offerings.

Understand the drivers of AMR and other metering methods

Examine the components of AMR

Look at advanced Metering worldwide technologies

Obtain an overview of vendor offerings and gain insight into deployment of AMR technologies

Utlity CEO's

Metering managers/ Revenue Protection managers

Energy service providers

Distribution managers/ Customer service managers

Energy marketers/Procurement officers

Financical officers/ City engineers

Consultants/ technical managers

Vendors of billing, metering and CRM

African countries are faced with the daunting challenge of porviding adequate electricity to the majority of the region's population. Coupled with this, there si a need to continously educate people on the safe, economical and legal use of electricity, in order that it is treated the same way as any other product/service. This will go a long way towards reducing system (non-technical losses), which have shown a rising trend over the past five years, in some countries reaching as high as 40%. These losses hinder growth and expansion, and hence it is imperative that African utilities strive to protect their revenues. This workshop will assist with investigating the extent of both technical and non-technical losses, policy formulation, revnue protection strategies, campaign planning and methods of brining the stituation under control. The workshop will also look at the revenue protection team and changing attitudes within the entire utility twoards revenue protection.

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