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This course provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities in the rapidly evolving tariff structures of rural and distribution utilities driven by changes in the energy integration and power system management.

Electricity cooperative tariffs vary depending on several factors including location, the type of cooperative, the cost of electricity generation and distribution, regulatory requirements, and the cooperative’s operating expenses. While the primary objective of an electricity cooperative is to provide affordable electricity to their members while covering costs and ensuring the sustainability of their operations, it has to rapidly adapt to changes in the generation mix and decentralized and increasingly digitalized transport networks.

Energy cooperatives require adaptive tariffs designs for pricing their electricity distributed generation and electricity usage. The course presents the financial drivers of different types of cooperative tariff structures. Special emphasis is given to the new clean energy investments, the impacts of government incentives, modalities to reduce rates or tariffs, the impacts of emissions, the reliance on outside power and the Essential Reliability Services and support that cooperatives may provide to the grid.

This course presents advanced methodologies that implement demand response and energy conservation programs for all the consumer types in a cooperative, in light of the integration of new technologies, regulatory changes and the penetration of renewable energy resources facilitated by the operating flexibility brought by power electronics.

Primary objective of an Electricity cooperative is to provide affordable electricity to their members while covering costs and ensuring the sustainability of their operations, it has to rapidly adapt to changes in the generation mix and decentralized and increasingly digitalized transport networks. Energy cooperatives require adaptive tariffs designs for pricing their electricity distributed generation and electricity usage.

These courses would provide valuable knowledge on the principles of rate design, regulatory processes, cost allocation methods, and the unique challenges faced by electric cooperatives in setting fair and sustainable rates.

  • Utility managers and executives working for electric cooperatives
  • Financial analysts and accountants in the electric utility sector
  • Regulatory affairs specialists in electric cooperatives
  • Board members of electric cooperatives
  • Government officials involved in utility regulation
  • Energy policy advisors and consultants
  • Lawyers specializing in utility law and regulation
  • Engineers working in electric utility planning and operations
  • Consumer advocates involved in utility rate cases
  • Graduate students in energy economics, public policy, or utility management

Your Expert Instructor is a Utility Executive with extensive global experience in power system operation and planning, energy markets, enterprise risk and regulatory oversight. She consults on energy markets integrating renewable resources from planning to operation. She led complex projects in operations and conducted long term planning studies to support planning and operational reliability standards. Specializing in Smart Grids, Operational flexibilities, Renewable generation, Reliability, Financial Engineering, Energy Markets and Power System Integration, she was recently engaged by the Inter-American Development Bank/MHI in Guyana. She was the Operations Expert in the regulatory assessment in Oman. She is a registered member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario, Canada. She is also a contributing member to the IEEE Standards Association, WG Blockchain P2418.5.

With over 25 years with Ontario Power Generation (Revenue $1.2 Billion CAD, I/S 16 GW), she served as Canadian representative in CIGRE, committee member in NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada), and Senior Member IEEE and Elsevier since the 90ties. Our key expert chaired international conferences, lectured on several continents, published a book on Reliability and Security of Nuclear Power Plants, contributed to IEEE and PMAPS and published in the Ontario Journal for Public Policy, Canada. She delivered seminars organized by the Power Engineering Society, IEEE plus seminars to power companies worldwide, including Oman, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Portugal, South Africa, Japan, Romania, and Guyana.

Our Key expert delivered over 60 specialized seminars to executives and engineers from Canada, Europe, South and North America, Middle East, South East Asia and Japan. Few examples are:

  • Modern Power System in Digital Utilities – The Energy Commission, Malaysia and utilities in the Middle East, GCCIA, June 2020
  • Assessment of OETC Control Centre, Oman, December 2019
  • Demand Side management, Load Forecasting in a Smart Grid, Oman, 2019
  • Renewable Resources in a Smart Grid (Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, GCCIA, Saudi Arabia)
  • The Modern Power System: Impact of the Power Electronics on the Power System
  • The Digital Utility, AI and Blockchain
  • Smart Grid and Reliability of Distribution Systems, Cyme, Montreal, Canada
  • Economic Dispatch in the context of an Energy Market (TNB, Sarawak Energy, Malaysia)
  • Energy Markets, Risk Assessment and Financial Management, PES, IEEE: Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Portugal, South Africa, Japan. Provided training at CEO and CRO level.
  • Enterprise Risk methodology, EDP, Portugal
  • Energy Markets: Saudi Electricity Company, Tenaga National Berhad, Malaysia
  • Reliability Centre Maintenance (South East Asia, Saudi Electricity Company, KSA)
  • EUSN, ENERGY & UTILITIES SECTOR NETWORK, Government of Canada, 2016
  • Connected+, IOT, Toronto, Canada September 2016 and 2015
  • Smart Grid, Smart Home HomeConnect, Toronto, Canada November 2014
  • Wind Power: a Cautionary Tale, Ontario Centre for Public Policy, 2010

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