PES Tutorial Workshop 'Technology and Market Penetration Issues in Renewable Energy' by Prof. Saifur Rahman, April 3, 2012

[Mithun M. Bhaskar]

 

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Hyd. Section

PES/IAS/PELS Joint Chapter

in association with

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

Invites you for
Tutorial Workshop

Technology and Market Penetration Issues in Renewable Energy

 

Prof. Saifur Rahman, FIEEE

Founder Director - Advanced Research Institute

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

 

Date            :  Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Venue         :  CII Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, Hitec City, Hyderabad

Time           :  02:00 – 06:00 PM

 

Tutorial Modules:

Part 1: Operational Issues for Wind Energy Technology

·         Wind turbine technology

·         Global deployment of wind energy technology

·         Interactions between wind electricity output and electrical power demand

Part 2: Operational Issues for Solar Energy Technology

·         Solar energy technologies – solar thermal and photovoltaics

·         Global deployment of solar energy technology

·         Interactions between solar electricity output and electrical power demand

Part 3: Demand Response Technologies

·         Demand response and demand side management (DSM)

·         Demand response technologies – supply side and demand side

·         Performance of demand response technologies

Part 4: Demand Response Planning and Operations

·         Sample demand response programs in operation

·         Customer incentives and participation

·         Impact of demand response on the electrical load shape

 

Profile of the Speaker:

Dr. Saifur Rahman is the Joseph R. Loring professor of electrical and computer engineering and the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, and a distinguished lecturer of the Power & Energy Society. He is the chair of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Committee on International Science and Engineering. He holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He received an MS in electrical sciences from State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech. Prof. Saifur Rahman directs the Centre for Energy and the Global Environment and the Consortium for Intelligent Grid Research, Analysis and Education from Virginia Tech. He served for three years as a program director in the Engineering Directorate at NSF. He was a research scientist at the Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan for one year. He has also worked as an electrical engineer with Progress Energy in North Carolina and the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. He has consulted for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the US Agency for International Development. He has served as the chair of the IEEE Publications Board, the Lifelong Learning Committee, Periodicals Committee and the Products and Services Committee. He is currently serving as the vice president for Publications for the IEEE Power & Energy Society, and a member of the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee.   

 

Registrations: Registration fee of Rs. 200 for Members, Rs. 500/- for Non-members. Student members will receive 50% rebate. Registration is mandatory at https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/11513

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Queries be directed to:

Mithun Bhaskar

Secretary, IEEE PES/IAS/PELS

Email: mith...@ieee.org

Tel: 9293181378