Energy Utility Partnership Program

EUPP

The United States Agency for International Development EGAT Energy Team (EGAT/I&E) launched a new program titled the Energy Utility Partnership Program (EUPP). Through a Cooperative Agreement with the United States Energy Association (USEA), the Energy Team is making a new program available to all USAID assisted countries and USAID Missions. See below for further information.

EUPP will assist developing countries to increase environmentally sustainable energy production and use and improve the operational efficiency and increased financial viability of their utilities and related institutions.

If you are interested in participating, please click here to contact John Hammond or Sharon Hsu.

The goal of the EUPP is to increase access in USAID-assisted countries to environmentally sound energy services by:

improving policy and legal frameworks to establish necessary market conditions for the private sector delivery of energy services and environmental management services;

increasing institutional ability to provide or deliver energy and environmental management services in the new and enhanced markets; and

increasing public understanding of, and participation in, decisions regarding delivery of energy and environmental management services.

Utility Partnerships

The EUPP, in consultation with USAID, will select U.S. and other utilities to partner with the developing country utility to share best practices. Typically, a partnership is established for a two-year period, in which 3-4 executive business trips are made per year, evenly divided between the U.S. and overseas partners.

Once partners have been selected, the participating organizations will execute a Work Plan of activities for the fiscal year to address the needs of the non-U.S. utility and the interests of the U.S. utility partner. Three or four specific issue areas will be identified in the Work Plan to be addressed during the partnership. Executive business trips between partners are the principal activities of the partnership program. EUPP can support a wide variety of policy & technology executive business trips.

Utility partnerships between U.S. and developing energy service providers will identify specific countries and outline areas of interest that will directly support the goal of USAID to achieve the provision of modern energy services and to improve energy sector governance, including:

The organization and structure of markets;

The capacity of management to operate a utility along commercial lines; and

The expansion of access to reliable and modern forms of energy by consumers in USAID client countries.

To help assure increased, environmentally sustainable energy production and use in developing countries, EUPP will focus on such topics as:

Generation;

Transmission;

Distribution;

Energy Sector Reform;

Energy Markets;

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy;

Energy Information and Research;

Environmental Improvement; and

Natural Gas and Oil.

For more information on the EUPP, please click here to contact John Hammond or Sharon Hsu.

Upcoming Programs

Jordan

Distribution

Executive Exchange Visit for Distribution Utilities of Jordan

July 2010, Amman, Jordan

Transmission

Arizona Public Service (APS) Executive Exchange Visit to National Electric Power Company of Jordan (NEPCO)

September 2010, Amman, Jordan

Recent Programs

Afghanistan/Central Asia Republics

Workshop on Special Protection Systems for Transmission Operations and Emergencies for Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

February 18 to 20, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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Transmission Operations Workshop for Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

July 22 to 25, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey

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Global Energy Workshops

Global Energy Efficiency Workshop

March 8 to 12, 2010, Washington, DC

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Global Workshop on Grid Connected Renewable Energy

August 31 to September 4, 2009, Washington, DC

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Iraq

Executive Exchange Visit for the Ministry of Energy of Iraq to Entergy and the IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition

April 17 to 24, 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Jordan

Distribution

Executive Exchange Visit for the Distribution Companies of Jordan to Sacramento Municipal Utility District and Tacoma Power

May 8 to 15, 2010, Sacramento, California and Tacoma, Washington

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Executive Exchange Visit for Distribution Utilities of Jordan

October 2009, Amman, Jordan

For more information please click here to contact Tricia WIlliams
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Executive Exchange Visit for distribution utilities of Jordan

May 2009, United States

For more information please click here to contact Tricia WIlliams
Please click here to view an article on the program.

Transmission

Partnership between The National Electric Company of Jordan (NEPCO) and Arizona Public Service (APS)

April 3-12, 2010, Phoenix, Arizona - National Electric Power Company of Jordan (NEPCO)Executive Exchange Visit to Arizona Public Service (APS)
For more information and to view the NEPCO Partnership web page, please click here.

October 5 to 8, 2009, Amman, Jordan - Arizona Public Service (APS) Executive Exchange Visit to National Electric Power Company of Jordan (NEPCO)
For more information and to view the NEPCO Partnership web page, please click here.

April 27 to May 6, 2009, United States - Executive Exchange Visit for National Electric Power Company of Jordan (NEPCO)
For more information and to view the NEPCO Partnership web page, please click here.