Energy and Utilities: Strategic Planning for Market Entry 2013 is a course that covers topics such as:
- Countervailing factors – the importance of incumbency and being local
- Global drivers for energy industry consolidation
- Barriers to entry (and exit), regulation, access, whole of sector profit margin
- Toolkit for evaluating energy market entry opportunities
- Dynamic factors – energy regulation, technology, markets
- The importance of energy market structure and institutional factors
- Key elements of an energy market entry business case – risk and return
- Analyse potential sources of a utility’s competitive advantage and disadvantage
- Alternative energy market entry strategies and timing factors
- How to evaluate and execute effective entry into new domestic and cross border markets
- Competitor responses – game theory
- Critical success factors for energy and utilities companies entering new markets
- Risk – the ‘long tail’ and "dumb" luck
Energy and Utilities: Strategic Planning for Market Entry 2013 brings together Energy and utilities professionals, including:
- Strategy, risk and new venture managers
- Senior managers across the firm
- Project Managers, Project Sponsors
- Government relations and regulatory managers
- Financial Institutions
- Country Managers
from infrastructure asset operators/owners, integrated utilities, generators, suppliers/retailers, regulators, financiers and others.