Webinars: Fuentes de financiación; Rol del ingeniero propietario; Centrales eléctricas en boca de pozo – Inscripciones abiertas

Webinar speakers Alastair Brookes, Steve Rutherford, Ross Sinclair and Tracy Mills, East Africa Geothermal Facility Online Webinar Series 2

carlos Jorquera 24 May 2022

Como parte de la serie 2 de seminarios web sobre geotermia de África Oriental, se llevarán a cabo tres seminarios web sobre las fuentes de financiación, el rol del ingeniero propietario y las centrales eléctricas de boca de pozo. El registro está actualmente abierto.

La inscripción ya está abierta para tres seminarios web más como parte de la serie de seminarios web sobre instalaciones geotérmicas de África Oriental. Esta es una serie de seminarios web organizados por la Instalación Geotérmica de Nueva Zelanda – África.

Los seminarios web generalmente tienen una duración de 1,5 horas e incluyen una presentación de video pregrabada, posiblemente con enlaces a lecturas adicionales. Las preguntas de los participantes se abordarán en una sesión posterior de preguntas y respuestas de Zoom en vivo. Los presentadores del curso son expertos reconocidos internacionalmente en su campo de Nueva Zelanda y estarán disponibles durante las sesiones de preguntas y respuestas en vivo.

Según el interés y la experiencia, los participantes pueden elegir a qué sesiones asistir o asistir a toda la serie. La lista de seminarios web incluidos en esta serie se puede ver en una publicación anterior.

Detalles en inglés:

Title:  Sources of Funding – grants, equity, debt

Speaker:  Alastair Brookes

Q & A schedule: 31 May 2022, 10 AM East Africa Time

Registration link: Register here

Geothermal projects require a significant amount of capital investment to explore and develop a prospect.   A Feasibility Study is a report that summarises and presents the information needed by stakeholders, owners, and developers to determine if a project is financially and technically capable of delivering on project goals and managing project risks. A strong feasibility study will help secure funding from developers.  This webinar will cover some typical sources of funding for geothermal projects, with a focus on funding used in many East African projects, as well as grants, equity and debt.  Examples of funding used in East Africa include investment from the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the KfW Development Bank through the Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility (GRMF).

Title:  Owner Engineer Role – overview of specifications EPC tenders, managing contracts

Speakers:  Steve Rutherford and Ross Sinclair

Q & A schedule: 2 June 2022, 10 AM East Africa Time

Registration link: Register here

The process of planning, specification, design, tendering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of power plants is described along with what information must be prepared, and the typical schedule for this process.  We explain, from our delivery of projects in Kenya and Indonesia, how the Owner’s Engineer anchors the delivery of this process along with the Owner / developer’s own internal team.

Title:  Wellhead power plants – some what’s, why’s, and how’s, and successes and things that could be better

Speaker:  Tracy Mills

Q & A schedule: 7 June 2022, 10 AM East Africa Time

Registration link: Register here

We draw on our experience with small geothermal power plants in Kenya, Ethiopia and internationally to consider examples of how wellhead plants have been deployed.  We look at the technical processes they have employed that are often different from larger plants and consider what has been successful and where some plants have had difficulties. We also consider how large wellhead plants could be.

Source: Geothermal Institute, The University of Auckland