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About the event | What do we know about Tanzania? | Schedule of events | Who you will meet
About the event
With an abundance of untapped natural resources across the East African region from hydro, geothermal, petroleum resources, wind and solar thermal, only a small fraction of this potential has been developed. The region needs to develop interconnectivity and maximise its resource sharing based on the resources that each countries has been endowed with. Investment in the development into power is crucial for full potential sector growth.
The finance and infrastructure gap for the power sector must be addressed to tackle the huge discrepancy between energy demand and supply. The Gap analysis for each East African country is common knowledge, but long term planning to meet this spiralling demand is lacking. As a result, the frustrating and extremely expensive use of emergency power is not proving cost effective, so viable, sustainable and more efficient alternative sources of power generation must be developed for the long term future of the East African power sector.
EAPIC goes to Tanzania’s vibrant industrial and commercial capital of Dar es Salaam in 2012. With the urgent need to engage the industrial community, Tanzania has mining, manufacturing, food & beverage and plastics industries adversely affected by power shortages and the less that efficient electricity power sector in Tanzania.
EAPIC will bring with it the rest of the region’s power sector players, international consultants and experts, project developers and investors and the financial community all under one roof!.
What do we know about Tanzania?
With installed power generation capacity at 1,100MW Tanzania only produces a mere 600MW of power for its 43million people. With huge dependency on hydropower (55%), Tanzania experiences frequent power shortages during dry season with only 12% of Tanzanians connected to the electricity grid. The Tanzanian Government however, have ambitious power plans to increase electricity capacity by 65% within 12 months and have estimated that this will cost $318m! With much needed participation from the private sector, Tanzania have recently successfully signed deals with Agrekko for $37m and China’s Sichuan Hongda Company for more than $684m for a gas fired power plant and other projects. It is anticipated that Sichuan Hongda will become Tanzania’s largest independent power producer.
With all this activity going on in Tanzania – we are delighted to be taking EAPIC delegates there in 2012 to help Tanzania to address is power sector challenges and bring further expertise, investment and power sector solutions into the country.
The schedule of events is as below.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
With a key focus on infrastructure development, boosting investor confidence and developing legal and regulatory frameworks, reducing the bottlenecks in generation, regional interconnectivity and power distribution, EAPIC brings together regional utilities, power companies, regulators, ministry, investors and financial institutions from across the East African region.
10th
September 2012
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11th
September 2012
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12th September 2012
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13th September 2012
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Pre-conference workshops
Full & Half Day |
Breakfast Briefings
Eritrea
Indian Ocean Islands |
Breakfast Briefings
Ethiopia
Kenya |
Post conference site visits
Executive Insider Briefing |
| Geothermal Focus Day |
Main Conference day 1 |
Main Conference Day 2 |
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Large Power Users Workshop |
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4 Electricity Power Workshops
3 Full Day
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1 Half Day
- Boosting Investment
- Successful Project & Financial Management
- Gap Analysis & Supply Planning
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Joint Opening session EAPIC, Water Utilities East Africa and Oil & Gas East Africa
Opening of EAPIC Exhibition
3 Tracks:
EAPIC
Oil & Gas East Africa
Water Utilities East Africa
Cocktail Reception |
3 Tracks:
EAPIC
Oil & Gas East Africa
Water Utilities East Africa
Joint Closing session EAPIC, Water Utilities East Africa and Oil & Gas East Africa |
Executive Insider Briefing
Ethiopia
Geothermal Field Kenya
Power in Mining site visit Arusha |
We have some exciting content for 2012 to address the issues you told us you were struggling with:
- Breakfast Briefings which will be sessions that give a snap shot view of the power markets in Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea and Madagascar, giving you complete visibility of the power sector markets in these countries.
- A Geothermal Focus Day for all the key stakeholders in East Africa active in the development of this large untapped resource potential.
- The Large Power Users in the region, get a Workshop tackling issues that affect them. This will be for the mining, plastics, food & beverage, metals and minerals industries.
- Four interactive pre-conference workshops on access to finance & investment, power sector reform, gap analysis and power supply planning and project & financial management for utilities and project developers. These sessions are designed to give you that extra in-depth analysis and insight to the subjects allowing you to create action plans, take away market information and use practical tools and tips for effective management back in your offices.
- The 2011 Rwanda Executive Insider Briefing was extremely successful, so for 2012 we hope to take a delegation to Ethiopia to explore the potential for investment in the power sector and learn more about doing business there, giving you the opportunity to meet key power sector stakeholders you would otherwise not get to meet.
- Post conference site visits will be to a Geothermal field and a power plant in the East African region.
- The Main 2 Day Conference covering topics such as Government policy, infrastructure development and investment, power sector reform, Generation, Transmission and Distribution, PPPs, regional interconnectivity and renewable energy.
EAPIC 2012 is your must attend event if you want to meet with key power sector stakeholders in East Africa.
Who you will meet:
Utilities:
CEOs, transmission, distribution and generation managers, plant managers, metering specialists, engineers, planning and technical directors, market operations directors
Financial Donors:
project co-ordinators, investment officers, regional and country directors, rural electrification funds
IPPs:
managing directors, project directors, operations managers
Geothermal: power plant manager, technical directors, geological specialists, geothermal project engineers, energy and mineral resource engineers
Stakeholders: Government representatives, ministers, economic officers, privatisation organisations
Deadline for submission of abstracts is Tuesday 31st January 2012
For more information about submiting your abstract contact Michelle Fanus d: (+44) 7817 701 413 | t: (+44) 207 241 2341
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