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INFRASTRUCTURE REGULATION SERIES
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How You Will Benefit:
- Learn the latest trends, successes and
failures in electricity and water regulation
- Learn how to benchmark your regulatory
authority against the best in the world
- Learn how to strengthen effective
electricity and water regulatory institutions and procedures
- Understand advanced regulatory techniques
which promote market development
- Learn how to improve enforcement of
financial, service and performance standards
- Learn how to use spreadsheet models to
analyze and establish rates for utilities
- Interactive training sessions and individual
Action Plan development, which is rewarding and technically applicable
to participants' own professional environments
- Use your new laptop computer for Internet
research, access to course materials during and after the course, case study
analysis, simulation exercises, and to create your Action Plan
- Global dialogue and learning opportunities
through participant interactions in small working groups
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Technology and Training at IP3
At IP3, we believe there is a
tremendous opportunity to integrate information and communication technology
into education and training. In all of our Washington, D.C.-based courses, each
participant is provided a new mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 or Celeron®
laptop computer (as part of the course fees) that will be integrated into the
learning process through the following:
- Course materials provided via dedicated
intranet site
- Internet research and communication tools
via broadband wireless (Wi-Fi) access in the classroom
- Case study and simulation activities
- All Action Plans will be completed and
submitted electronically
After the course is concluded,
access to course materials and discussion boards will be available for up to
two months to facilitate worldwide networking and follow up with
participants. |
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| Who Should Attend |
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Commissioners, Directors
and Key Staff of Regulatory Authorities, Agencies, and Commissions
Energy and Electricity
and Water Ministry Officials
Directors and Key
Managers of Public and Private Electric and Water Utilities
Staff of Bilateral and
Multilateral International Organizations |
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Course
Learning Objectives
For developing
and emerging market economies alike, adequate electricity and water supplies
continue to be a key factor in determining the pace of economic growth. To
ensure these supplies and plan for the future, countries will require effective
models for unbundling electricity and water monopolies, managing tariffs and
regulating the performances of both public and private electric/water
utilities.
In this training course titled
Advanced Issues in Regulating Electric and Water Utilities,
participants will learn a number of advanced tools, techniques and models to
regulate both public and private electric and water utilities that
generate/source, transmit and distribute electricity/water services.
Participants will acquire skills in increasing the effectiveness of
regulations, strengthening regulatory bodies, refining pricing modeling and
monitoring strategies and implementing consumer protection programs..
Through presentations, case studies,
simulated exercises and on-site meetings with leading electricity and water
regulatory authorities and utilities, participants will gain new knowledge and
skills and bring these to bear in developing their own plan of action for the
management for regulatory commissions in their own countries.
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| Course Content |
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Module I:
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Best Strategic Practices in
Regulating Electric and Water Utilities
- Review of five years of "lessons learned" in
electricity/water regulation
- Benchmarking strategies against highly successful
electric/water or multi-sector regulatory commissions
- Understanding the "next phase" of development for
electric/water and multi-sector regulatory authorities
- Identifying and integrating advanced training
needs for commissioners and staff
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Advanced Issues in Electricity
and Water Regulatory Management
- Reorganization options based on market structure:
generation/sourcing, transmission and distribution
- Reorganization options based on functionality:
legal, economic, financial and social
- Strategies to increase market confidence by
increasing independence
- Techniques to accelerate transparency and
accountability with the authority
- Advantages/ disadvantages of internal and external
monitoring/ auditing of the regulator
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Tariff Review, Setting and
Performance Monitoring for Electric and Water Utilities
- Setting, monitoring and reviewing performance
standards
- Conducting rate reviews: procedure checklists and
data collection for state-owned and private utilities
- Calculating tariff structures and subsidies that
reflect policy goals and achieve social objectives
- Determining revenue requirement and the rate base;
setting X and K under price cap regimes
- Specific issues: wheeling charges, dominant
suppliers, IPP contracts, power pools
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Accelerating Stakeholder
Communication Strategies
- Reaffirming stakeholder needs and their impact on
regulatory design
- Promoting consumer protection regulation,
complaint filing and hearing procedures
- When and how to consult with consumers, the public
and other regulatory stakeholders
- Using television, print and electric media to your
advantage
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Site Visits to Electric and Water
Regulatory Authorities |
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Action Planning
Prior to completing the course, IP3
requires participants to complete an Action Plan detailing how they will
apply their new knowledge and skills on-the-job. IP3 has developed a four-step
process to guide participants in developing their action plans. Our expert
faculty members conducts several action-planning sessions throughout the course
to assist each participant to develop his/her plan. On the last day of the
course, each participant will present his/her action plan to the group for peer
review and comments. |
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CEU Certification
Eligibility
Certified
Regulation Specialist™
Certified
Utility Management Specialist™ |
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