Introduction | Why attend | Audience profile |Host utilty | Sponsors | Participating organisations | Media partners

Introduction

The 2006 African Utility Week will bring together some 1200 key decision makers from the African utility industry.

The African Utility Week’s unique training, networking and discussion platforms will demonstrate how utilities can be more efficient and offer cost-effective services through improved infrastructure maintenance, load management, delivery and revenue management choices. The event will turn ‘talk into action’ by providing an overall blueprint for strategic planning, implementation and technical management for the African utility business.

The main priorities for the electricity, water and gas sectors in Africa are to meet current demands and to apply new utility management processes in order to increase utility revenue through reliable technology systems such as metering, billing and CRM/CIS.

This event is like no other event in Africa and can confidently be stated as the largest utility event in Africa, bringing together 870 key decision makers in Cape Town in 2005. This offers a premier platform to develop utilities into profitable entities in Africa.

The only and premium prepayment event of its kind

• New prepayment technologies and systems
  
• Latest projects and practices
  
• Financial models on prepayment projects
  
• Community buy-in campaigns
  
• Emerging prepayment strategies

• The premier metering conference for utility leaders
  
• Strategies and technologies for metering
  
• AMR
  
• Emerging technologies, data management, revenue assurance and revenue management
  
• Demand side management
  
• Outsourcing, billing solutions and customer service
  
• IT systems

• New projects and investment in Southern Africa
  
• Finance of the power sector
  
• Power pools
  
• Focus on rehabilitation of the power sector in Africa
  
• Building new regional partnerships and regulations
  
• Power station management
  
• Power station planning, development and maintenance

• Incorporating international workshop on measurement and verification
  
• Energy mangement - step by step approach
  
• Renewable energy strategies
  
• International consultant on demand side management
  
• The revolution of energy efficiency
  

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Why attend?

• This is not just another conference, but an event that turns high level strategies into real time solutions and projects – Turns talk into action
• There are plenty of hands-on training opportunities through workshops led by industry experts to technical tours to see the real thing
• Seeing is believing – you will be able to experience and witness first hand prepayment technologies in the field.
• A once in a lifetime to experience different power stations in one city including nuclear on the Power Station Management Tour
• Update yourself on all the latest technologies and receive first hand information from the manufacturers at the exhibition.
• Networking is the key to successful relationships and the event provides networking opportunities at the exhibition, lunches, cocktail function and gala dinners. If you need to network with the industry, this is the place to be seen!
• Learn from other utilities – real life case studies will be presented on customer end technologies all the way to the building and rehabilitation of a power station
• Finding finance for your projects – Be there when investors are looking for a project to suit their portfolios.
• Decide where you would like to be in the restructuring process – find which restructuring processes have been the most successful in Africa and listen to international experts on this contentious subject.

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Audience Profile

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Host utility

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Participating associations

 

Host publications:

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Media partners

A number of leading international and national media will be supporting the event. Should you wish to be involved in the event please contact:
Le-Ann Hare: le-ann@spintelligent.com
Phone: +27 21 700 3500
Fax: +27 21 700 3501

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About the sponsors:

Sharon Grobbelaar
Product manager: Eclipse
P.O Box 4059
Tygervalley
7536
South Africa
Phone: +27 21 914 3640
Fax: +27 21 914 3630
sgrobbelaar@actaris.com

Actaris is a world leader in the design and manufacture of meters and associated systems for the electricity, gas, water and heat markets. Our innovative products and systems integrate the latest technologies to meet the evolving needs of public or private energy and water suppliers, utility services and industrial companies. Actaris has annual revenue of Є632 million and 6000 employees.

 

Hein Erwin
Managing Director
P.O. Box 3585
Durbanville
7551
South Africa
Phone: +27 21 982 0016
Fax: +27 21 982 2030
herwin@kocos.co.za

Intelligent solutions for energy calibration, fault and event recording, circuit breaker analysis, relay testing and power monitoring. KoCos Ag of Germany is represented in KoCos Measurement and Control (Pty) Ltd and KoCOS Industry and is well placed to provide the region with superior technology solutions. Fields of activity are energy calibration equipment and services, power quality analysis, relay testing, digital fault recording, optical measurement and peak load management.

 

Rob Williamson
Business Development Manager
60 Electron Ave
P.O. Box 281
Isando
1600
South Africa
Phone: +27 11 921 7900
Fax: +27 11 921 7977
info@cashpower.co.za
www.cashpower.com

Landis+Gyr offers a complete range of metering solutions, from credit and prepayment metering to meter test equipment. Its world leading Cashpower prepayment solutions comprise an extensive range of meters and sophisticated vending software. Its credit metering solutioons from grid to residential applications are sold throughout Africa. Landis+Gyr also markets and sells MET meter test equipment in selected African countries.

Siemens Power offers a complete range of solutions for the energy sector, from efficienc, enviromentally compatible power generation systems to the safe and efficient transport of electrical energy from power plant to consumer. Base on in-depth knowledge of the Southern African energy chain, Siemens constantly provides appropriate and comprehensive products, components, systems and service solutions, including expert assistance in maintenance, refurbishment and Greenfield sites. Siemens Power comprises of Power Generation Contorl and Instrumentation, Power Generation New Equipment Sales, Power Generation Mechanical Services and Power Transmission and Distribution.

Jose Machado
BU Communications Consultant
Siemens South Africa Ltd
Private Bag x71
Halfway House 1685
South Africa
Phone: +27 11 652 22149
Fax: +27 11 652 2446
josemachado@siemens.com
www.siemens.com

 

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