Theme for 19th PPA Annual Conference & Trade Exhibition

“Promoting Utility Best Practices for Sustainable Development”

For many Pacific Island utilities, the most practical projects or programs to advance the utility forward have already been accomplished by another utility. Likewise, the most pressing problems of one utility have already been solved by another utility.

The scope of the Business Sessions will be focused towards addressing the above theme.

Invited papers are those that address the above theme, as it would apply to the following areas:

• Energy Efficiency
• Renewable Energy
• Petroleum Issues
• Regional Energy Issues
• Customer Service
• Reliability and Quality of Supply
• Regulatory Issues
• Generation Systems
• Transmission and Distribution Systems
• Power Sector Issues

“Breaking the Barriers to Efficient and Affordable Technologies”

Invited papers are those that address the theme and the following areas or topics as agreed by the Engineers at the 4^th PPA Engineers Workshop held in 2008;

• Maximizing the efficient operation of the utility’s existing assets (getting the most out of what you have)
• Target setting utilising performance benchmarking criteria to improve and sustain operations (industry best practice)
• Condition monitoring to ensure operational efficiencies are maintained together with timely maintenance
• Renewable energy: implementing mechanism of renewable energy integration into the established system, i.e. compatibility criteria.
• Overview of planning and design criteria for adoption to meet load forecasting models covering maintenance planning, equipment redundancy, etc.
• Update on renewable energy: practical follow-up on existing systems, i.e. solar, wind, tidal etc., should include life cycle analysis of proven renewable energy technologies
• Success stories: Highlight engineering success stories within the utilities
• Outsourcing: Performance based contracts for outsourcing of services.

 
 

Interested authors should send a brief abstract (approximately 250 words) to the Executive Director, PPA Secretariat no later than 30th April, 2010. The accompanying brief CV/Bio must be less than 50 words. If greater than 50 words the PPA Secretariat will automatically edit, and a passport type photo of the author should be emailed to the Secretariat.

The abstract should summarize precisely the scope of the paper proposed. 

Authors will be notified of acceptance (or otherwise) as soon as the Abstracts have been reviewed by the Secretariat. This notification will be provided no later than 15th June 2010. Final Papers must be emailed to the Secretariat by 11th June 2010.

Detailed information on conditions and submissions of papers can be seen on Call for Papers information sheet.