Day 1: Tuesday 14 May
Grid Management
Facilitator: Gil Alberto Vilanculo, Head of Renewable energy on grid system, EDM
| 10:30 | Application of Energy Storage in the power system and user side Wang Shenzhu, Vice President of Africa Region, Hengtong Group Co. |
| 11:00 | eThekwini Municipality: The 2024 TID Rollover Engagement Approach –Mpiyakhe (George) Mashinini, Manager: Revenue Protection, eThekwini Municipality, South Africa –Shawn O Neill, TID Specialist, STSA |
| 11:30 | Striving for maximum safety and continuity of supply in MV substations ● Improvement of safety of personnel ● Ensure continuity of supply ● Availability of innovative technology Marcel Buckner, Regional Manager, Eaton |
| 12:00 | Gassing of Wind Farm Transformers ● Safety concerns of high levels of Combustible Gas in active transformers ● OEM inspection, fault diagnosis and the cost of non-compliance ● Improved reliability of Renewable Energy Transformer. Ian Gray, Division Manager, WearCheck |
| 14:30 | Innovation in Extra High Voltage transmission – A resilience case study ● Extra High Voltage grid resilience planning and responding to high-impact low frequency events ● A 2018 world first: Saudi Electricity Company and Extra High Voltage Transmission ● Implications for African utilities regarding cost effective strengthening of Extra High Voltage grid robustness Toon Houwen, Business Development Manager, CG Holdings Belgium |
| 15:00 | Impact of renewable generation plants on distribution grid operations ● Boosting distribution grid operations performance ● Grid code compliance alignment for renewable power plants ● Foreseeable challenges with small scale embedded generation Naniki Nzuza, Senior Engineer Renewables Grid Integration, Eskom Distribution |
| 15:30 | Innovative solutions to prevent T&D losses ● Preventing technical losses ● The importance of energy efficient technologies ● Identifying and preventing commercial losses Dr. Katsutoshi Toda, Fellow, Grid Aggregation Division and Special Corporate Advisor, Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd. |
| 16:00 | Impact of revenue collection and non-technical losses ● Exploring theft, illegal connections, meter tampering and incorrect metering ● Combatting incorrect and inaccurate municipal billing systems ● EcoStructure™ Grid as an intelligent electricity network solution Johan Pretorius, Power Systems Business Development Manager, Schneider Electric |
Day 2: Wednesday 15 May
Digitalisation and the grid
| 10:30 | Motivation to close the skills gap ● Identifying skills gaps ● Designing a training calendar to keep ahead of the curve ● Shifting legacy staff into a digital gear Heinrich Rudman, Western Cape Centre, SAIEE |
| 11:00 | Innovations in Mobile Workforce Management: How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are delivering value to Utilities ● How Field Service Management and IoT combine to deliver value ● The key metrics used by Field Service teams ● How AI and data leads to better business decisions Martin Green, Regional VP of Sales, EMEA, ClickSoftware |
| 11:30 | The solution for wildlife fatalities on air insulated electrical infrastructure ● Preventing nuisance outages caused by wildlife ● Insulation enhancements to reduce maintenance Silas Moloko, CEO, Technology Integrated Solutions |
| 12:00 | IT/OT Convergence: A Guide for utilities ● Mechanisms to get OT data into the IT environment ● Achieving standardisation and interoperability ● Phasing in new technology with legacy staff and systems Lawrence Juku, Executive Head for Utilities & IoT, Vodacom |
| 14:00 | The future of ICT in distribution automation ● Fault detection and resolution ● Increased efficiency and decreased operations costs ● Customer experience ● A safer, smarter power grid Dr. Manuel Costeira da Rocha, Managing Director, EFACEC |
| 14:30 | Smart grid case study Reserved presentation, Håkan Johansson, eQUALS Power AB, Sweden |
| 15:30 | Optimizing the profit generated by your assets throughout their lifecycle ● Advances in data collection techniques, analytics and data science ● Implementation of an ALM approach on transformers and other grid assets ● How ALM methodology and solutions can generate significant ROI Uzo Ezimora, Director of grid services, SSA, General Electric |
Day 3: Thursday 16 May
Africa’s future grid
| 10:00 | Application of Aluminium Polyethylene Laminated (APL) type cables in HV Installations ● Use of cables in High Voltage system installation ● Reasons to use cables over other mediums of power transfer ● Types of cables utilised in High Voltage systems Henni Scholtz, General Manager: Product Development & Application, Aberdare Cables |
| 10:30 | Assessment of power system inertia challenges in IRP 2018 ● Understanding the impact of increased inverter based renewable generation on reducing inertial energy of the power system ● Introducing inverter based generation while managing the rate of change of frequency ● Highlight possible mitigation techniques in terms of new system operations techniques and ancillary services to support the grid with high shares of RE: o Synthetic inertia o Demand response o Fast Frequency Response ● Assess the integrity of the South African Grid over the IRP 2018 period (2020 – 2050) in as far as system stability is concerned, particularly power system inertia. ● Highlight a probable costing methodology that could be implemented in order to cost these new ancillary services in the IRP Mpeli Rampokanyo, Principal Engineer, CSIR |
| 11:00 | The role of the West African Power Pool in driving grid development ● Power pool interconnection as an essential tool for transmission infrastructure development ● Power pool organization boosting the investments in transmission at regional level ● Exploring control centres as key assets for the energy market and power pool Eric Amoussouga, Sales Director GE Grid Francophone Africa, General Electric |
| 11:30 | Converting Waste into Energy Storage Assets ● Environmental waste can be converted into Energy Storage assets ● Converting ash dumps, mine dumps and building rubble into Energy Storage assets ● Disruptive Energy Storage which is cost effective, efficient, versatile, scalable and environmentally friendly Les Lange, CEO, Sizana Solutions (Pty) Ltd |
| 12:00 | Exploring substations of the future Myles Margot, Senior Key Expert, Siemens |
