Commences: 28 March 2022

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: Mastering the integration of solar power plants with energy storage, plus other value-add solutions.

A business-focused training course designed to provide business developers with an accessible and concise, yet comprehensive understanding into how advanced utility-scale solar power projects are providing greater value to the industry, its investors and energy system planners alike.

‘Dispatchable’ solar power projects are crucial to the scalability of solar within energy systems, increasing its ability to replace conventional thermal power capacity while maintaining power system flexibility and resilience. Compared to traditional solar-only projects, new considerations include the components required and the project design, development and integration processes involved. Understanding the market drivers and new revenue opportunities that such hybrid, multi-technology projects create are key to making the business case.

This course will lead attendees through the technologies, processes and financial return and risk considerations for those involved in dispatchable solar project development, with a particular focus on solar + storage. Explanations will be provided in clear, business-friendly language accessible to non-engineers. If you need a valuable, up-to-the-minute and independent introduction to these crucial trends in the future development of solar power projects, this online course provides a unique learning opportunity.

Course Sessions:

1. Market trends and business cases driving ‘dispatchable’ solar power;
2. Integrating utility-scale solar power with battery storage;
3. Hybrid projects, hydrogen integration and other solutions to dispatchable solar power;
4. Economic variables and sizing of solar + storage projects.

Among the key points to be answered:

• What are the market factors driving integrated solar + storage projects?
• How can the addition of storage and other flexibility solutions create new revenue opportunities?
• Which other technology integration trends are emerging, including hybridisation & hydrogen?
• How are competitive tenders and utility & regulatory requirements driving dispatchable solar?
• What do examples from around the world indicate about changing market environments?
• What are the key considerations around plant design, components and grid connectivity?
• How do economic & financial aspects of solar with/without storage compare?
• How does solar resource assessment data feed into project design, sizing and site selection?
• How much storage or flexible capacity is needed, and which technologies are most appropriate?

Live Online Course - How It Works

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 4 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusevent.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 9 March 2022

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: Valuable lessons to be learned from the European experience.

There are many moving pieces affecting the future of electric power development in emerging markets. Unlike the past Independent Power Project models, which featured standardised take-or-pay contracts – today’s market demands more innovative incentives to ensure better availability, better performance, as well as more attractive and sustainable mixtures of fuel sources. Economies throughout developing countries urgently need to master the key tools, models, and lessons learned for transforming and strengthening today’s electricity sector. These include the latest models in negotiating Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), in designing and managing new competitive power markets, as well as attracting the right mix of renewable energy sources. 

This live online training course gives you clear explanations of the new models of PPA risk allocation, of designing and managing competitive power markets, attracting private investments in renewable energy, through a series of real case examples of contracts and markets. Case Studies will include real examples from Africa, Middle East, Asia, Europe and North America. Furthermore, cases stimulate independent thinking and discussion among participants.

Course Sessions:

1. Utility and corporate renewable PPA structures;
2. PPA risk assessment and valuation;
3. PPA pricing;
4. PPA contracts and risk mitigation;
5. Financing and PPA negotiations.

Benefits of Attending:

• Learn about all the essentials of corporate renewable PPAs;
• Perform a policy and risk analysis of PPA contracts;
• Learn theory and practice of pricing and tariff design;
• Run a risk assessment;
• Evaluate different risks and mitigate these risks under the PPA;
• Lead successful power project finance transactions;
• Negotiate fair and sustainable PPAs.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 5 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Weslyn Lee | Email: weslyn[at]infocusint.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusevent.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 7 March 2022

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: Mastering PPP project analysis, financing, contracts & transaction management techniques.

We need new infrastructure. Roads, airports, schools, hospitals and housing: the list is enormous and growing. Yet severely limited budgets, economic uncertainty caused by volatile commodity prices, and deficits continue to prevent government at all levels from delivering the kinds of structural change that has always been needed. In response, some countries have developed successful PPP programmes. Merely grasping the concepts of PPP does not do justice to our great responsibility of having an ownership in the country’s future. We already know what we need to do, now is the time to really discover HOW.

Course Highlights:

1. PPP policies, strategies, laws & units for implementing successful PPP transactions;
2. Identifying & selecting appropriate projects for PPPs;
3. Models for analyzing PPP projects;
4. Managing & completing PPP feasibility studies;
5. Financing techniques for PPP to ensure long-term PPP bankability and affordability;
6. Managing and overseeing PPP procurements & achieving transaction closure;
7. PPP stakeholder management & sustainability techniques;
8. Managing long-term PPP contracts for ensuring service delivery, price regulation, and dispute resolution.

Benefits of Attending:

• Use best practices from international case studies of successful PPP transactions and common practical pitfalls to avoid;
• Design and manage PPP legal, regulatory & institutional frameworks to attract investors and complete PPP transactions;
• Apply models for the efficient design and completion of PPP feasibility studies;
• Understand project financing requirements and evaluate PPP financial models for both affordability and bankability;
• Evaluate and apply different credit enhancement techniques to ensure PPP bankability, including blended financing, viability gap funding (VGF), partial guarantees, risk insurance products, output-based aid (OBA) and other financial instruments;
• Design PPP transaction implementation plans and manage & oversee PPP transaction advisors for reaching commercial closure and financial closure;
• Models for PPP tender documents, including PPP Project Information Memoranda (“InfoMemos”), Requests for Qualifications (RFQs), Requests for Proposals (RFPs);
• International models for designing and drafting PPP contracts & agreements;
• Environmental & social impact mitigation techniques to structure sustainable private investments in public infrastructure;
• Plans for managing sustainable PPP contracts including ensuring technical performance, quality of service delivery, price review & adjustment regulatory models, legal contract management and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 5 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Weslyn Lee | Email: weslyn[at]infocusint.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusevent.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 22 February 2022

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: The essential guide to opportunity and risk within emerging EV charging value chains.

Even without the rapid growth of EVs, our current power systems are in the midst of a disruptive transition towards cleaner, diversified and more flexible structures. If a transition from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric vehicles (EVs) is to be achieved, what will be the impact on these systems? What are the barriers to scale and which solutions (and hence market opportunities) will be essential? 

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the multi-sector issues that must be understood and integrated, plus the competitive battles ahead, including: technology status and trends, management of electricity demand & supply, charging network players and competitors, consumer behaviour influences.

Course Sessions:

1. The EV market and its bulk impact on electricity systems;
2. Charging challenges, smart charging and EVs as grid assets;
3. Value chain convergence and technology disruption.

Benefits of Attending:

• Quantify the variables which will determine the impact of EVs on electricity supply;
• Identify the key barriers to widespread EV integration and growth, from a power system perspective;
• Assess where and how EVs can help the grid, through smart charging and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) solutions;
• Get up-to-date on the most significant value chain activities and pilot study findings;
• Analyse and segment the competitive landscape for EV charging;
• Understand and discuss which future technologies, behavioural trends and policy influences will be crucial to creating long-term, sustainable business models.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 5 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Weslyn Lee | Email: weslyn[at]infocusint.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusevent.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 7 February 2022

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: Today’s project finance (PF) transactions require a higher level of expertise not only in programming more sophisticated and flexible financial models, but also in incorporating the latest risk mitigation and credit enhancement instruments. While higher standards of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) impact management are being demanded of all major capital projects worldwide, more options and models for ESG mitigation, insurance, guarantee products, and financing instruments are now available. This online course covers both the latest PF strategies, risk mitigation instruments, as well as financial modelling best practices.

The objective of this course is to provide participants with an enhanced understanding of the practical & documentation requirements of all interested parties to today’s PF transaction. This programme provides you with proven PF analytical strategies and transaction structuring techniques which will enable you to quantitatively assess risks, resolve constraints, and reach project financial closure. This programme is also designed to enhance the check lists and benchmark metrics by which you can reduce losses and which will be viewed favourably by both management and the regulatory community.

Course Sessions:

1. Limited-recourse Project Finance models & key requirements;
2. Project finance documentation management, risk analysis models & Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) mitigation options;
3. Sources of PPP financing: financial products, guarantee instruments, credit enhancements & bankability techniques;
4. Designing financial models part 1: Financial model design requirements & work plan management;
5. Designing financial models part 2 & 3: Programming financial statements and interpreting international accounting standards;
6. Designing financial models part 4: Project finance model stress-testing, simulation analyses, and modelling for credit enhancements;
7. Summary group exercise: Evaluating a financial model for PF risk allocation, transaction closure and post-transaction economic regulation & tariff adjustment.

Benefits of Attending:

• Understand the key practical and transaction management requirements of today’s project finance (PF) marketplace;
• Oversee and direct PF transactions including managing specialist transaction advisors;
• Manage PF documentation requirements and manage detailed lender due diligence requirements to reach commercial & financial closure;
• Designing commercial financing instruments, funding products, credit enhancements, and “blended finance” strategies to ensure PF bankability;
• The latest standards for analyzing and mitigating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) impacts of PF transactions;
• Best practices for resolving practical PF challenges in specific infrastructure and industrial sectors including - renewable energy; power transmission & energy pipelines; logistics & transport facilities; airports, ports, & roads; desalination plants; water & wastewater treatment facilities; accommodation, hospitals & education facilities; commercial real estate, agro-industrial facilities; mining & natural resources, etc.
• Practical standards for designing & programming financial models for PF transactions, data assumptions, financial statements, international accounting standards, and bankability metrics;
• Review and critique PF financial models prepared by specialist PF financial advisors;
• Stress-test PF models: sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, and simulation analysis techniques;
• Use PF financial models to guide risk-allocations, credit enhancements instruments, bankability measures, and reach transaction financial closure.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 5 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Weslyn Lee | Email: weslyn[at]infocusint.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusevent.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 24 January 2022

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: A business-focused assessment of energy storage opportunities, competing solutions and project delivery essentials.

Energy storage differs from other energy technologies in the breadth and complexity of its addressable market and revenue opportunities. While naturally focusing on battery storage, we also cover the variety of competing storage technologies and describe the wide variety of problems energy storage seeks to solve, at a wide range of deployment sizes and timescales, including key issues around practical project delivery.

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of why and where storage markets are growing, what could limit this growth and what the future trends will be. So, if you are thinking of investing in or developing an energy storage business case, this course provides your essential grounding in the core issues.

Course Sessions:

1. Battery storage;
2. Utility-scale applications for power system optimisation;
3. Decentralization (energy storage at the network edge);
4. Long-duration and alternative storage solutions.

Benefits of Attending:

• Gain a clear understanding of energy storage market opportunities & deployment considerations;
• A core focus on batteries, including clear explanations of the technologies and performance considerations (in language accessible to non-technical people);
• Discuss the key project delivery issues for battery storage projects;
• Review up-to-date examples from around the world and the lessons from them;
• Understand the competitive playing field and the economic variables that impact energy storage business cases;
• Stay ahead of trends and emerging solutions, including growth opportunities for longer-duration storage solutions.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 5 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Weslyn Lee | Email: weslyn[at]infocusint.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusevent.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 20 January 2022

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: A comprehensive, participative course, providing the knowledge and tools to segment and analyse opportunity & risk within emerging hydrogen economies.

The ‘hydrogen economy’ was first described 50 years ago, but failed to develop. Now hydrogen is making a comeback, with unprecedented momentum from both policymakers and industry amid a background of energy decarbonisation. Nevertheless, given its failure in the past, current investors and business developers in the sector are strongly advised to ensure they understand the complexities and competitive environments of the hydrogen landscape. This new course combines an excellent overview of the different elements of the clean hydrogen sector with a series of critical thinking and analysis exercises which provide clear guidance on market assessment requirements, including key opportunity and risk influences.

This comprehensive course is designed for those seeking a wide-ranging, hype-free and independent perspective on the markets and supply chain activities which will (and won’t) drive demand for clean hydrogen. You will have a clearly explained, business-focused perspective on the competitive context of hydrogen across its various use cases. You will be able to separate what is actually happening in the market from the headlines and hype, and to identify the drivers and credible near-term opportunities for your business. You will evaluate barriers to hydrogen within certain market segments and its competitive advantages in others, illustrated by examples from a global perspective.

Course Sessions:

1. Hydrogen market segmentation and assessment;
2. Examining key hydrogen applications and markets;
3. Producing hydrogen from renewable power;
4. Storing and moving hydrogen;
5. Developing and growing hydrogen value propositions.

Benefits of Attending:

• Gain a clear understanding of hydrogen industry technologies, terminologies & metrics;
• Review the value chain from hydrogen production to end-use market demand;
• Focus on the production of clean hydrogen from renewable power (‘green’ hydrogen);
• Understand the competitive playing field and the economic variables that will impact it;
• Discuss the key practical delivery challenges facing clean hydrogen projects;
• Learn key lessons from project examples and proposals from around the world.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 5 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Weslyn Lee | Email: weslyn[at]infocusint.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusevent.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 19 January 2022

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: A commercially-focused overview of LNG business in 2022 with a commercial focus but technology and shipping will also be covered. The course considers the outlook for the business over the period to 2040 in terms of markets, sources of supply, pricing and trading and the response to energy transition.

2021 has been a year of recovery for LNG demand as governments of importing countries have relaxed some of the restrictions imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and economic recovery has started. However, the growth in LNG supply has been curtailed by unscheduled maintenance at some of the world’s liquefaction plants and by shortfalls in feedgas supply at others. The result has been a tightening of the supply demand balance causing LNG and natural gas prices to surge reaching over $25/MMBtu in September 2021. It is a very different market to 2020, when demand fell because of the pandemic and supply increased as output built up from liquefaction trains commissioned in 2019 and the first half of 2020, which led to LNG and natural gas prices in Asia and Europe declining to $2/MMBtu in the middle of the year. At this level, prices were below the short-run marginal cost of US LNG exports and around 180 US cargoes were cancelled.

The Covid pandemic also led to delays in final investment decisions (FIDs) on new liquefaction capacity. In 2020, commitment was made to just one project, Sempra LNG’s 3.25 mtpa Energia Costa Azul project in north-west Mexico. Qatar Petroleum’s commitment to its 33 mtpa North Field East project in February 2021 boosted the capacity of projects under construction to 133 mtpa but more will be needed if forecasts of LNG demand in the second half of the 2020s and in the 2030s are to be met.

Energy transition has brought increased demands for the LNG business to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in all parts of the LNG chain from natural gas production through to the combustion of regasified LNG in downstream markets. It raises questions over LNG role in the long-term energy supply. Will demand increase as natural gas replaces coal in power generation and is used as a back-up fuel for renewables or will natural gas be seen as a fossil fuel whose consumption has to be reduced if targets of net zero carbon emissions are to be met?

The online course will, over 6 sessions, provide an overview of the LNG business in 2022 with a commercial focus but technology and shipping will also be covered. It will consider the outlook for the business over the period to 2040 in terms of markets, sources of supply, pricing and trading and the response to energy transition. It is designed not only for newcomers to LNG but also those who want to refresh their knowledge or who have experience in one part of the business or one region and want to widen their knowledge.

Course Sessions:

1. LNG value chain in 2021-2022;
2. Safety, shipping and current status of the LNG business;
3. LNG markets and terminals;
4. LNG shipping and supply;
5. Acquiring LNG supply and LNG pricing;
6. LNG contracts and LNG spot and short-term trading.

Benefits of Attending:

• Understand LNG chain technologies, costs, economics and safety;
• Appreciate how the LNG business is changing and the implications for those working in the business;
• Gain insights into LNG pricing and how it is evolving;
• Acquire in depth knowledge of world LNG markets and supply sources;
• Assess the increasing role of spot and short-term trading.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 5 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Weslyn Lee | Email: weslyn[at]infocusint.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusevent.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 19 January 2022

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: Practical models and techniques for analyzing & structuring, drafting, and negotiating Renewable Energy PPAs for bankable green investments in today’s competitive energy markets.

In the global marketplace of 2020s, both developed and developing economies urgently need to master the key techniques and models for transforming to renewable generation while strengthening the reliability of new energy markets and systems. These focus on adapting and negotiating the latest models for Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements (RE PPAs) and on rapidly attracting new private investments in renewable energy sources. Unlike past fossil-fuel based Independent Power Project (IPP) models that featured standardized take-or-pay contracts – today’s renewable energy markets demand more innovative incentives to attract RE supply, conform to RE generation availability, ensure power system reliability, as well as more attractive and sustainable mixtures of fuel sources. Government power sector strategies are now struggling to choose among different practical incentives for new private investments in the renewable technologies including solar energy, wind power, bio-mass incineration and mini-hydro investments.

These interactive 5-session workshop will provide clear explanations of the new models of Renewable Energy PPA risk allocation, of ensuring project bankability, of allowing RE generators to compete in energy markets and power pools. Case Studies will include real examples from Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America.

Why Attend:

• Best practices from international case studies of successful RE PPAs to avoid common pitfalls;
• Direct the legal design of RE PPAs based on your own company’s risk profile and corporate goals;
• Lead strategies for the design and regulation of new competitive electricity markets to attract renewable private power investments;
• Develop clear incentives for bankable private investments in renewable energy generation;
• Environmental, social & governance (ESG) impact mitigation techniques to ensure sustainability;
• Manage successful renewable power project finance transactions.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 5 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Weslyn Lee | Email: weslyn[at]infocusint.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusevent.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 22 November 2021

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: A comprehensive, up-to-date and business-focused roadmap to success in delivering solar power growth, today and tomorrow.

Attendees will gain a good understanding of the key factors from an integrated, multidisciplinary and commercial viewpoint, including: target market analysis, economic competitiveness, channels-to-market, financing influences and risk, project development processes, best practices and emerging technologies.

The course schedule includes illustration of key project development considerations, including energy yield, financial and other simple calculations, along with the chance to discuss key planning and market environment considerations.

In keeping with the business-focused theme of the course, these illustrative exercises are designed to provide time-efficient clarification of the key course takeaways, aimed at commercially-focused business developers and investors. They are therefore accessible to nonexperts, not designed to replicate the complex or in-depth detailed planning undertaken – over much longer periods! – by engineers and technical teams.

Course Sessions:

1. What makes a solar power plant?
2. Solar resource assessment and project design
3. Solar project development and delivery
4. Selling solar power
5. The economics and financing of solar power projects

Benefits of Attending:

• Speak the language of solar energy: terminology and concepts explained with clarity and relevance;
• Understand the key variables determining the economics of solar PV projects;
• Review current and emerging market opportunities for solar PV, including integrations such as energy storage;
• Navigate the typical project development requirements, processes and risks;
• Learn and discuss how financial returns and risks arise in PV projects;
• Be better able to converse with project partners, suppliers, investors, policymakers and other stakeholders;
• Know what to look for when evaluating PV project opportunities;
• Identify key investment and project performance risks;
• Learn how to analyse and critique current and emerging business models.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 8 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusinternational.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 15 November 2021

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: The new economics of power markets in a low-carbon world

Are you ready for the new challenges & opportunities as power markets around the world evolve?

This is an essential course both for those generating and trading electricity and for those responsible for policy within the power industry. It leads you through a clear, accessible and thorough examination of the economics of power generation, from power plant cost influences to end-customer prices. It contextualises this analysis with key consideration of industry drivers and trends, including increasingly liberalised and competitive markets, evolving policy support and management frameworks, the growth and integration of renewable power sources, and the restructuring of power systems towards more decentralised operations.

The presenter allows for and encourages plenty of Q&A and discusses the issues from multiple stakeholder perspectives; including power plant owners, investors, policymakers and energy customers. This online course is an essential primer for those seeking to navigate successful business routes through transitioning electricity systems.

Course Sessions:

1. Power project economics;
2. Power system disruption and the economic impacts;
3. Creating value from capacity and flexibility;
4. Competition, innovation and the end-customer.

We’ll examine these key questions:

• Which variables drive the economics of electricity generation?
• How do generation costs combine with other factors to produce end-use electricity prices?
• How are current technology & system trends impacting electricity costs and prices?
• What are policy makers doing to keep costs down?
• Who are the key stakeholders and influencers on electricity economics?
• What are the value-chain impacts of market liberalisation and competition?
• How are solar and wind power (and other low-carbon options) changing market environments?
• … and many more!

Benefits of Attending:

• Clear, independent and business-focused introduction;
• Language designed for non-experts; particularly senior executives, policymakers & investment decision-makers;
• Core knowledge building, including up-to-the-minute examples from markets around the world;
• Interactive discussion of key market and economic variables;
• Quantification of key issues using simple numerical calculations, real data and Excel-based tools.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 8 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusinternational.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 8 November 2021

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: Master the technology pathways, its business drivers, economics and deployment strategies.

This course is intended for those in business, commercial and strategically focused roles within the energy sector; in particular those responsible for environmental matters, business sustainability and business transformation in areas such as oil & gas, hydrogen and industrial energy usage. 

Attendees will leave with a clearly explained and independent perspective on how, where and why CCUS is happening now and could grow in future – covering the range of technological solutions and business drivers, including policy. In addition to reviewing existing CCUS approaches, the course will highlight new opportunities and integrated value creation possibilities through carbon utilisation. This will include how the fate of CCUS links to other aspects of the clean energy transition, such as clean hydrogen production, industrial decarbonisation and the transition away from oil & gas.

Course Sessions:

1. CCUS technologies and markets;
2. Industrial clusters, hydrogen and carbon utilisation;
3. Growing CCUS market opportunities: policies, markets & barriers.

Benefits of Attending:

• Understand the most challenging aspects of the clean energy transition & the role of CCUS in addressing them;
• Examine the various technological aspects of the CCUS value chain, from capture through to storage and/or utilisation pathways;
• Discuss the key economic and policy variables which will determine how CCUS plays out in different markets;
• Review up-to-date examples of projects and strategies from around the world, and evaluate the lessons from them;
• Learn the dynamics of the new competitive environment, including the risks of ‘business as usual’ and the importance of industrial clusters in CCUS deployment;
• Identify approaches to sustainable strategic planning and new business opportunity assessment.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 8 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusinternational.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 26 October 2021

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: A comprehensive online course to one of renewable energy’s fastest-growing sectors.

A business-focused training seminar designed to provide business developers and investors with an accessible and concise, yet comprehensive understanding of the many facets of these capital-intensive and lengthy projects.

Offshore wind projects are very different from their onshore cousins, both in terms of the components required and the project development and installation processes involved. From turbines and timescales to cabling and costs, the scales are often supersized – with clear economic and practical rationale for this.

This course will lead attendees through the technologies, processes and financial return and risk considerations for those involved in offshore wind project development. Explanations will be provided in clear, business-friendly language accessible to non-engineers. Trends and emerging disruptive technologies, such as floating turbines and integrations with other clean energy solutions, will be introduced and placed into context.

If you need a valuable, up-to-the-minute and independent introduction to the fast-growing offshore wind sector, this online course provides a unique learning opportunity.

Course Sessions:

1. What makes an offshore wind farm;
2. Project development & operations;
3. Assessing market growth, trends and investment variables.

Benefits of Attending:

• Which markets and geographies offer the greatest growth potential?
• Essential offshore wind farm components and installation processes
• How has offshore wind turbine technology diverged from that utilised onshore?
• Key delivery risks at various stages in a project’s life
• Challenges to consider in operating an offshore wind farm
• Key drivers of financing and financial return in offshore wind projects
• Essential policy and market trends to consider in forward planning
• Status of floating wind, and how it will impact the industry
• Other emerging technology and technology integration trends

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 8 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusinternational.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 25 October 2021

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: This course is the A to Z on strategically managing and optimising your human capital to full potential in today’s difficult business climate. It is a highly practical, hands-on course that shows you exactly how to tackle those intractable HR problems:

• Resistance from employees;
• Favoritism and political games;
• HR not a priority/not taken seriously;
• Lack of senior executive support for HR;
• Lack of funding.

 This course will give you the knowledge and tool to excite and re-energise your people and to inspire a new-found confidence and trust in HR in your business. Through discussion, examples and activities you will discover the way forwards. The industry insights, templates and models will put you ahead of your competitors; ahead of the game in designing and delivering winning HR initiatives which will earn your HR team praise and recognition and will take your people to the next level.

This practical live online course will have you excited by the new possibilities to drive performance in your organisation. The examples given are proven winners and the materials provide for easy adaptation to your business. Within 5 sessions of completing the course you can be forging positive change for your organisation and your people.

Course Sessions:

1. Human capital in perspective: principles, challenges and solutions;
2. A strategic approach to effective succession planning;
3. Identify, develop, engage & retain your top talent;
4. Understanding and facilitating a high-performance workplace;
5. Performance management systems – avoiding the pitfalls.

Benefits of Attending:

• Learn to conduct a Talent Retention Audit and to develop a Talent Retention Plan;
• Discover innovative, practical and inexpensive solutions to a wide range of everyday HR challenges and problems;
• Identify why performance management systems so often fail and how to avoid these common mistakes;
• Work through a simple, effective model to help struggling employees improve their performance;
• Design innovative approaches to succession planning for your valued employees.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 8 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusinternational.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 27 September 2021

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: Today’s project finance (PF) transactions require a higher level of expertise not only in programming more sophisticated and flexible financial models, but also in incorporating the latest risk mitigation and credit enhancement instruments. While higher standards of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) impact management are being demanded of all major capital projects worldwide, more options and models for ESG mitigation, insurance, guarantee products, and financing instruments are now available. This online course covers both the latest PF strategies, risk mitigation instruments, as well as financial modelling best practices.

The objective of this course is to provide participants with an enhanced understanding of the practical & documentation requirements of all interested parties to today’s PF transaction. This programme provides you with proven PF analytical strategies and transaction structuring techniques which will enable you to quantitatively assess risks, resolve constraints, and reach project financial closure. This programme is also designed to enhance the check lists and benchmark metrics by which you can reduce losses and which will be viewed favourably by both management and the regulatory community.

Course Sessions:

• Limited-recourse Project Finance models & key requirements;
• Managing Project Finance transactions & stages of the deal;
• Project Finance documentation management, risk analysis models & Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) mitigation options;
• Sources of PF funding, financing instruments & guarantee products; credit enhancements & bankability techniques;
• PF financial model design requirements, presentation & formatting standards;
• Programming financial statements, cash flows, profit & loss statements and managing international accounting standards;
• Projecting PF balance sheets, SPV reserve accounts, PF refinancing, and conducting sensitivity analyses;
• PF model stress-testing, overseeing Monte Carlo simulation analyses, and modelling for credit enhancements.

Benefits of Attending:

• Understand the key practical and transaction management requirements of today’s project finance (PF) marketplace;
• Oversee and direct PF transactions including managing specialist transaction advisors;
• Manage PF documentation requirements and manage detailed lender due diligence requirements;
• Designing commercial financing instruments, funding products, and “blended finance” strategies;
• Select and apply credit enhancement and guarantee products to ensure PF bankability;
• Techniques for managing and reaching PF transaction commercial closure & financial closure;
• The latest standards for analyzing and mitigating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts of PF transactions;
• Practical standards for designing & programming financial models for PF transactions, data assumptions, financial statements, international accounting standards, and bankability metrics;
• Stress-test PF models: sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, and overseeing Monte Carlo simulation analysis techniques;
• Use PF financial models to guide risk-allocations, credit enhancements instruments, bankability measures, and reach transaction financial closure.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 8 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusinternational.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 23 September 2021

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: This course provides an in-depth analysis of EPC contracts, their interface with other project documents and their role in the project lifecycle. It discusses key risk allocation issues, and the structuring of the contract in a project financing context. You will be introduced to the key terms and negotiation issues in EPC arrangements, the role and incorporation of technical details, and the impact of project specifications in EPC arrangements.

This course will benefit participants with different levels of experience. For those with no experience, it will provide a basic tool kit of what EPC contracts look like, what are the major terms and perspectives of owners, contractors and lenders, as well as familiarity with what the major areas of dispute may be during the construction phase and how to manage them. For the more experienced, it will be a masterclass on EPC contracts, covering the key commercial and technical issues in the construction market today. The course director has vast experience of EPC contracts and can answer literally any question on the subject.

Course Sessions:

1. Legal framework;
2. Bankability issues and project structuring;
3. Administering EPC contracts;
4. Claims and claims resolution;
5. Managing contractors and subcontractors.

Benefits of Attending:

• Best practices in negotiating EPC contracts;
• Understand the procurement options for projects and the associated risks and opportunities;
• Consider alternative pricing, incentivisation and risk allocation approaches;
• Develop an understanding of the current EPC market and the legal risks associated with such forms of contracting;
• Learn what the major areas of dispute may be in construction projects and how to manage them;
• Understand the key specificities of construction projects in your region of the world.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 5 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusinternational.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 13 September 2021

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: Valuable lessons to be learned from the European experience.

There are many moving pieces affecting the future of electric power development in emerging market. Unlike the past Independent Power Project models, which featured standardised take-or-pay contracts – today’s market demands more innovative incentives to ensure better availability, better performance, as well as more attractive and sustainable mixtures of fuel sources. Economies throughout developing countries urgently need to master the key tools, models, and lessons learned for transforming and strengthening today’s electricity sector. These include the latest models in negotiating Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), in designing and managing new competitive power markets, as well as attracting the right mix of renewable energy sources. 

This live online training course gives you clear explanations of the new models of PPA risk allocation, of designing and managing competitive power markets, attracting private investments in renewable energy, through a series of real case examples of contracts and markets. Case Studies will include real examples from Africa, Middle East, Asia, Europe and North America. Furthermore, cases stimulate independent thinking and discussion among participants.

Course Sessions:

• Utility and corporate renewable PPA structures;
• PPA risk assessment and valuation;
• PPA pricing;
• PPA contracts and risk mitigation;
• Financing and PPA negotiations.

Benefits of Attending:

• Learn about all the essentials of corporate renewable PPAs;
• Perform a policy and risk analysis of PPA contracts;
• Learn theory and practice of pricing and tariff design;
• Run a risk assessment;
• Evaluate different risks and mitigate these risks under the PPA;
• Lead successful power project finance transactions;
• Negotiate fair and sustainable PPAs.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 5 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusinternational.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 13 September 2021

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: A business-focused assessment of energy storage opportunities, competing solutions and project delivery essentials.

Energy storage differs from other energy technologies in the breadth and complexity of its addressable market and revenue opportunities. While naturally focusing on battery storage, we also cover the variety of competing storage technologies and describe the wide variety of problems energy storage seeks to solve, at a wide range of deployment sizes and timescales, including key issues around practical project delivery.

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of why and where storage markets are growing, what could limit this growth and what the future trends will be. So, if you are thinking of investing in or developing an energy storage business case, this course provides your essential grounding in the core issues.

Course Sessions:

• Battery storage;
• Utility-scale applications for power system optimisation;
• Decentralization (energy storage at the network edge);
• Long-duration and alternative storage solutions.

Benefits of Attending:

• Gain a clear understanding of energy storage market opportunities & deployment considerations;
• A core focus on batteries, including clear explanations of the technologies and performance considerations (in language accessible to non-technical people);
• Discuss the key project delivery issues for battery storage projects;
• Review up-to-date examples from around the world and the lessons from them;
• Understand the competitive playing field and the economic variables that impact energy storage business cases;
• Stay ahead of trends and emerging solutions, including growth opportunities for longer-duration storage solutions.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 4 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusinternational.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 8 September 2021

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: A commercially-focused overview of LNG business in 2021 that also covers technical and shipping aspect of the business. The course considers LNG outlook during COVID-19 with slower economic activity towards 2035 in terms of markets, sources of supply, pricing and trading.

At the beginning of 2020, the LNG business was looking forward to another year of expansion after a successful 2019 during which production increased by 42.5 mt and final investment decisions (FIDs) were taken on 71 mtpa of liquefaction capacity. COVID-19 has radically changed those expectations. LNG production continued to increase rapidly in the first quarter of 2020 as output from LNG trains that started up in 2019 built up to full capacity. However, demand weakened in the second quarter as lockdowns in many LNG importing countries to control the spread of COVID-19 slowed economic activity.

Increased supply and declining demand have led to an over-supplied market, with spot prices for LNG falling to levels not seen before in the second quarter and the cancellation of US LNG cargoes. However, prices began to recover during the third quarter with demand expected to strengthen in the winter months. The construction of new liquefaction trains has been delayed and final investment decisions (FIDs) on new capacity have been deferred. However, the long-term outlook for LNG remains robust as lower prices increase the competitivity of natural gas with coal and oil in the power generation and industrial sectors.

Course Sessions:

• Introduction of the LNG value chain in 2021;
• Safety, shipping and current status of the LNG business;
• LNG markets and terminals;
• LNG supply;
• LNG pricing and contracting;
• LNG spot and short-term trading.

Benefits of Attending:

• Understand LNG chain technologies, costs, economics and safety;
• Appreciate how the LNG business is changing and the implications for those working in the business;
• Gain insights into LNG pricing and how it is evolving;
• Acquire in depth knowledge of world LNG markets and supply sources;
• Assess the increasing role of spot and short-term trading.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 6 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusinternational.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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Commences: 31 August 2021

Location: Virtual

Organizer: Infocus International

Description: The essential guide to opportunity and risk within emerging EV charging value chains.

Even without the rapid growth of EVs, our current power systems are in the midst of a disruptive transition towards cleaner, diversified and more flexible structures. If a transition from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric vehicles (EVs) is to be achieved, what will be the impact on these systems? What are the barriers to scale and which solutions (and hence market opportunities) will be essential? 

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the multi-sector issues that must be understood and integrated, plus the competitive battles ahead, including: technology status and trends, management of electricity demand & supply, charging network players and competitors, consumer behaviour influences.

Course Sessions:

• The EV market and its bulk impact on electricity systems;
• Charging challenges, smart charging and EVs as grid assets;
• Value chain convergence and technology disruption.

Benefits of Attending:

• Quantify the variables which will determine the impact of EVs on electricity supply;
• Identify the key barriers to widespread EV integration and growth, from a power system perspective;
• Assess where and how EVs can help the grid, through smart charging and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) solutions;
• Get up-to-date on the most significant value chain activities and pilot study findings;
• Analyse and segment the competitive landscape for EV charging;
• Understand and discuss which future technologies, behavioural trends and policy influences will be crucial to creating long-term, sustainable business models.

Live Online Course - How It Works:

The structure of our virtual learning program is designed to keep the same levels of engagement and networking as our on-site public courses. Course content is delivered through our easy-to-use online learning platform and is supplemented by case studies and practical exercises.

Like our classroom-based public courses, you will have live interaction with our course facilitators and other participants. Our live online courses are led by our experienced instructors, who will provide you with easily digestible content, using knowledge learned from many years in the industry, during scheduled times. Delegates will receive copies of the course materials electronically.

This course is scheduled to take place over 3 live online sessions using virtual learning technology.

To register/enquire, please contact:

Emilia Mok | Email: emilia[at]infocusinternational.com | Tel: +65 6325 0210

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