Energy and Environmental Challenges in Emerging Regions.
Opportunities for Control and Monitoring Technologies
Wednesday, August 31, hrs 16:00 – 18:00 – Aula Magna
Organizers and Moderators: Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue (CNRS and European Embedded Control Institute, France) and H.S. Jamadagni (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
This panel will review our current understanding of the energy/environment linkage and it will discuss how monitoring and control system technologies can help. A specific focus for the session will be on emerging economies, especially India and China. It is in these geographies that power and energy demand is growing rapidly; clean energy solutions must address priorities there. Recent data on generation mix, power system infrastructure developments, and government policies and priorities will be briefly reviewed. A few imperatives bear special emphasis: reduction and redistribution of energy consumption in homes, buildings, and industries; more reliable transmission and distribution infrastructure; increased penetration of renewable generation; and adjustment of consumption demand in conditions of uncertain and intermittent supply.
The role of control in two critical technology-rich areas will be discussed: energy efficiency and smart grids.Energy efficiency in the transmission and distribution system is a higher priority item in emerging regions than in developed countries (where T&D losses are in single-digit percentages). The smart grid can be thought of as an overlaying of a communication and control infrastructure on the electricity grid. Control will be crucial for integrating distributed renewable generation and storage technologies with the grid, for broad penetration of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, and for overall system reliability.An area of particular importance in emerging markets is microgrid optimization.
This session is presented under the auspices of the European Commission’s FP7 project Euclid on EU-India collaboration in monitoring and control.
Panelists:
Paul van den Bosch ( Eindhoven U. Tech.), Jean-Luc Dormoy(EDF Group, France), S.S. Murthy (IIT, Delhi), Andrew D Paice (ABB, Switzerland), Tariq Samad (Honeywell), Laurent Schmitt (Alstom, France), Yuanzhang Sun ( Wuhan U.), Kai Strunz ( Tech. U.Berlin)