Thursday,
23 October 2003
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| 2:00
- 2:30 |
Registration
- Salon 4
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| 2:30
- 2:45 |
Welcome and Objectives of Meeting
—Mr. Vincent DeVito, Chief of
Staff and Senior Policy Advisor for North American Affairs, Office
of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy
—Mr. Hamid Dahmani, Counselor,
Ministry of Energy and Mines Algeria
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| 2:45
- 3:00 |
Market
Opportunities - Tewfik Hasni, President and General Manager, New
Energy Algeria (NEAL)
Brief overview of the current and future opportunities to sell electricity
generated from renewable energy resources locally in Algeria and to
export it to Europe. |
| 3:00
- 3:30 |
Overview
of Proposed 140 MW CSP - Natural Gas Hybrid Power Project (Part
1, Part 2, Part
3) - Tewfik Hasni
Technical aspects including performance, economic feasibility, risk
analysis and potential for water desalinization. |
| 3:30
- 4:30 |
IEA
Project Review - Michael Geyer, Executive Director, IEA SolarPACES
Program
Summary of the findings and conclusions of the recent IEA "Start
Mission" to Algeria.
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| 4:00
- 5:00 |
Panel on Financing Renewable
Energy Projects in Algeria
Export-Import
Bank - Dave Josephson, Director Western Region
Global Environmental Facility - Alan Miller, Team Leader
International
Finance Corporation - Alan Miller, GEF Coordinator and Team
Leader
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| 5:00
- 5:15 |
Doing
Business in Algeria - Tewfik Hasni
Brief overview of key aspects of doing business in Algeria, including
key legislation, electricity law, decree on renewable energy, investment
law, etc.
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| 5:15
- 6:15 |
Solar Energy Technologies
Moderator - Raymond
A. Sutula, Manager, Solar Energy Technologies Program, DOE Office
of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Algeria's primary and
most accessible renewable energy resource is solar energy. A brief
overview of the cost and performance of several solar energy technologies
will be presented.
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CSP
Trough Systems - Henry Price, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(NREL) |
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CSP
Power Tower Systems - Scott Jones, Sandia National Laboratories
(Sandia) |
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CSP
Dish Engine Systems - Thomas R. Mancini, Sandia |
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Photovoltaics
for Large-Scale Utility Applications - John P. Thornton (NREL)
|
| 6:15
- 9:00 |
Reception with Heavy Hors D'oeuvres
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| Friday,
24 October 2003, Partnering with NEAL |
| 8:00
- 12:00 |
One-on-one
discussions between NEAL representatives and interested US companies
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