Mission 300 Course: Setting Baselines, Tracking Performance and Establishing Compact Delivery and Monitoring Units (CDMUs)
From : 8 September, 2025
To : 12 September, 2025
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Financial Modelling for Mini-grids
From
15 December, 2025
To
19 December, 2025
Tuition
$1950
Venue
Birchwood Hotel OR Tambo Int'l Airport, Jo'burg, South Africa
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overview
This is a 4-day training course that focuses on business modelling and tariff determination models for mini-grids. The course looks at key modelling practices in MS Excel and the general components of a mini-grid tariff model. The course also provides a snapshot of cost of supply studies and their implications on tariffs. Participants in this course learn the revenue requirement components of the regulatory asset base, depreciation, operations and maintenance, cost of capital etcetera.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Through successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the mini-grid business model
- Recognise the various customer categories and their impact on mini-grid business model
- Appreciate the role of productive use and demand side management in mini-grid business model
- Know the components of tariffs for various mini-grid consumer categories
- Become familiar with mini-grid cost elements and revenue models
Make informed decisions on tariff setting
COURSE CONTENT
Mini-grid Business Models
- Mini-grid economics
- Elements of mini-grid business models
- Productive use and demand side management
- Profitability matrix for mini-grids
- Factors affecting revenue collection
- Main components of mini-grid costs
- Financing end-user connections
Tariff Determination
- Tariff structure and categories
- Role of demand in tariff determination
- Mini-grid OPEX structure
- Revenue requirement components i.e. regulatory asset base, depreciation, operations and maintenance, cost of capital etc.
- Impact of common regulations and taxes on mini-grid tariffs
Practical Sessions
- Common Excel tips for modelling revenue requirement models
- Inputting parameters from feasibility study reports
- Building the cost and revenue elements of the tariff
- Estimating the revenue requirement for various customer categories
- Scenarios and sensitivity analysis
Deriving tariffs and profitability matrices
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Planners, Economists, Engineers, Financial Experts, Auditors, Board members, and all staff from:
- Mini-grid developers
- Utilities
- Regulators
- Municipal, provincial, and state governments
- International organisations
- Other private and public sector institutions with an interest in mini-grids
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