About the event

Increasing demand for electricity across the East African region has put pressure on existing hydro resources. Ongoing drought in the region, and the resulting unavailability of hydropower resources has meant an ever increasing search for alternative sources of reliable, sustainable electricity. Geothermal power is increasingly being promoted by governments and multilateral agencies as a resource which could and should be exploited for energy production.

High geothermal resource reliability, sustainability and operational efficiency make it easy to understand why more and more countries are exploiting geothermal resources if they have them. Despite heavy start up costs for geothermal power plants, countries such as Iceland and Japan are investing heavily in the technology and building in overseas territories. Japan has just recently invested some $320 million in Kenyan geothermal potential and more and more technology companies are offering geothermal development packages aimed at developing countries.

Why attend?

As both a renewable energy and economically feasible generation option, Geothermal has been highlighted as a “must have” for East Africa’s power sector. The Africa Geothermal Power Summit will be the meeting place for government ,investors, utilities, regulators and vendors to take an in-depth look on how to encourage investment in geothermal, planning and up skilling the correct resources and planning a geothermal facility from feasibility through financing to completion.

• Meet with the key stakeholders of the East African region and discuss how to further the development of the geothermal industry of this key region.
• Get an update on existing projects and potential areas of development.
• Get insight into managing and developing a geothermal project.
• Understand the finance options available for geothermal development

Programme at a glance

	Tuesday 6 September 2011	Wednesday 7 September 2011
Morning	Session 1.2.1 Developing Geothermal Resources for East Africa	Session 2.2.1 Geothermal Power Summit Session 2.2.2 African Union Geothermal meeting
Lunch break
Afternoon	Session 1.2.2 Financing Geothermal Development	Session 2.2.3 African Union Geothermal meeting

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Who you will meet

Industry representation

• Utilites
• Government
• Private companies
• Financial institutes
• Academics

Job functions

• Powerplant managers
• Technical managers
• Geological specialist
• Geothermal project engineers
• Energy and minerals resources engineers

For more information about the programme contact Claire Volkwyn