INT'L. CONF. ON POWER SYSTEM OPERATION & PLANNING (ICPSOP 2002) Experiences and Challenges of Technical and Policy Reforms in a Restructured Power Industry, Nigeria, Summer 20

0115575 Dzidzienyo该赠款将支持第二次国际研讨会，讨论美国和非洲电力工业重组活动的经验和挑战。 它将加强和扩大电力结构改革的技术、经济和法律的活动范围。 世界范围内执行结构改革和私有化的经验教训将用于加强能源部门今后的活动。 研讨会将邀请能源专家、研究人员、大学学者和学生参加。竞争性公用事业环境的出现提出了新的规划、运行、可靠性和成本问题，这些问题对电力系统管理人员、执业工程师、研究人员和开发人员构成了新的挑战。 已经有会议、讲习班、专题讨论会和研究来处理其中一些重要问题。 然而，在确定最有效的方法以应对诸如计算挑战、体制障碍、政策等障碍方面，缺乏对话，也缺乏有远见的目标。制定方向和开发联合项目，以协助参与国。本建议的目标是组织一个重点研讨会，* 撒哈拉非洲国家将处理下列问题：促进有竞争力的电力系统的有效规划、最佳战略和范例：通过公开交流不同的电力系统结构、经验和重组方面的挑战，开展对话;评价现有的计算技术，以解决重组环境中的技术挑战、政策分析和社会部门问题;促进美国和非洲能源部门的公用事业/供应商、大学和政策制定者之间的合作，以解决以下问题：重组经济学、资本投资激励、阻塞管理、重组公用事业环境中的分布式发电（DG）、可靠性评估技术、电力市场的成本和定价、收集和计费问题、人力资源/培训问题、政策、法律的问题和环境问题。

0115575DzidzienyoThis grant will support a second international workshop on the experiences and challenges of both US and African power industry restructuring activities. It will strengthen and broaden the scope of power restructuring technical, economic and legal activities. The experiences and lessons from the implementation of restructuring and privatization worldwide will be directed towards the enhancement of future activities in the energy sector. The workshop will involve energy experts, researchers, university scholars and students.The emergence of a competitive utility environment presents new planning, operation, reliability, and costing issues that constitute new challenges to power system managers, practicing engineers, researchers and developers. There are already conferences, workshops, symposiums and studies to address several of these important issues. However, there is a lack of dialogue and a lack of visionary goals towards identification of the most effective methods to deal with obstacles such as computational challenges, institutional barriers, policies, etc. In order to overcome these obstacles, the proposed international workshop in Abauja, Nigeria is aimed at synthesizing ideas, setting directions and developing joint projects to assist the participating countries.The objective of this proposal is to organize a focused workshop between US and Sub-Saharan Africa countries to address the following issues: promotion of effective planning, optimal strategies and paradigms for competitive power systems: development of dialogues through open exchange on different power system structures, experiences and challenges in restructuring; evaluation of available computational techniques to address technical challenges in a restructured environment, policy analysis and social sector issues; and to promote cooperation between US and African utilities/vendors, universities, and policy makers in the energy sector to address the issues: economics of restructuring, incentives for capital investment, congestion management, distributed generation (DG) in a restructured utility environment, reliability assessment technology, costing and pricing of the power market, collection and billing issues, human resources/training issues, policies, legal concerns, and environmental concerns.