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SANEA Action for Energy 2014
Open dialog on effective implementation of the National Development Plan

The South African National Energy Association (SANEA) and the National Planning Commission (NDP) invites you, your colleagues and all interested persons are cordially invited to attend an open dialogue on the effective implementation of the National Development Plan

DATE: Thursday, 06 November 2014
TIME: 07h00 to 18h00
VENUE: Indaba Hotel, Fourways, Sandton (click here for map)
COST: SANEA members: R3500 + VAT; Non-members: R4500 + VAT

This event has been endorsed by the SAIEE for 1 CPD credit in terms of the ECSA CPD Policy

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BACKGROUND

SANEA and the NPC are hosting an industry-wide effort to draft a road-map to support the implementation of the NDP. This will take the form of a high-level development path for twenty five years covering the use of petroleum products, coal and gas, as well as electricity generation, transmission, and distribution.

OBJECTIVES

This inter-active event has as its objectives the following:
  • To create an interactive forum aimed towards creating a common view of the benefits of, and required response to, the NDP from the broad energy-related business sector.
  • To create deeper understanding of the objectives of the NDP, its contents, and the imperative next steps towards effective implementation.
  • To create trust and collaboration between the NPC and the energy-related business sector, and to extend this collaboration across other spheres of government.
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For further information visit www.sanea.org.za or contact Sarita Cronje, email: [email protected]
 
 
Eskom technical seminars
 
On behalf of Eskom, you are cordially invited to two important technical seminars as follows:

Seminar 1
Domestic electric loads: 
Consumption, demand and profiles

You are invited to a seminar presenting new information about SA domestic customer load behaviour.

DATE: 12 November 2014
VENUE: John Maree Auditorium, Eskom Academy of Learning, Midrand
COST: R350 per person attending

Eskom and some municipalities have been co-operating via the NRS 034 Domestic Load Research Project in collecting loading data of domestic customers for the last 18 years. All this data is in a database linked to tariff and demographic, climatic and spatial information. The load data has been analysed and converted into user-friendly formats for users of load data. The analysis will be presented at the seminar and made available to attendees.

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Alternatively, for further information and registration, contact Buhle Dhlamini [email protected]
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Seminar 2
BIG DATA for electricity forecasting: Concepts, techniques and demonstrations

You are invited to a seminar which will introduce energy planners and forecasters to the use of BIG DATA in planning and forecasting environments.

DATE: 13 November 2014
VENUE: John Maree Auditorium, Eskom Academy of Learning, Midrand
COST: R350 per person attending

Planners and forecasters are under ever increasing pressure to deal with a more uncertain future, with larger and larger data sets having to be processed. Traditionally data sets are highly structured, but the growing trend is to mine value from unstructured data. While doing analysis, modelling and forecasting, it is imperative to access unstructured data (news articles and the like) from the core component of market Intelligence, combined with time series, spatial and other data (e.g. traditional data warehouse) to give more rich intelligence. Eskom RT&D is offering you the opportunity to get up to speed with these exciting developments.

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Click here for registration form

Alternatively, for further information and registration, contact Buhle Dhlamini [email protected]

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SANEA Action for Energy 2014
Eskom technical seminars
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