Category: 2017

ECCE 2017

ECCE 2017
October 1-5, 2017
Cincinnati, Ohio

Building on the success of previous year’s conferences, ECCE is world’s leading technical conference and exposition for energy conversion solutions. We provide opportunities for practicing industry engineers, researchers, students, and professionals from the broad spectrum of energy conversion to exchange technical knowledge, and develop their skills. ECCE is unique in our emphasis on integrated systems, presenting the best in applied integrated systems research together with innovations in individual energy conversion components.

ECCE 2017 enables knowledge exchange in a wide range of settings. These include peer-reviewed technical presentations, special panel sessions, interactive town-hall sessions, tutorials, as well as plenary talks and the exposition. Exhibitors at ECCE showcase state-of-the-art technologies, products, and solutions, creating a highly interactive networking environment when mixing with the poster sessions and student demonstrations on the same floor.

A novel development at ECCE 2017 will be the co-location of ECCE with the IEEE IAS Annual meeting. Attendees will be able to choose to register for ECCE alone, or to jointly register for ECCE and the IAS Annual Meeting at a reduced combination rate. We welcome our IAS colleagues to join us at our Exposition, Special Sessions, Industry Product and Services Sessions, and social functions.
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IEEE ET&D 2017

IEEE ET&D 2017
November 7-9, 2017
Aalborg, Denmark
Professor Divan was an invited speaker.

Power electronics is changing from a technology that enables renewable generation and energy-efficiency improvement to the foundational technology for grid modernization. Electronic power transmission and distribution power grids are being envisioned in the near future.

The workshop, jointly sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) and the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES), is organized by Aalborg University, Denmark. This year’s event will be focused on industry, consisting of 3 Executive sessions, 5 Industry Panel sessions, and 2 Technical E-poster sessions, with over 80 presentations from government, industry, and academia. A tutorial on IEEE Std. 1547 for interconnecting distributed energy resources with electric power systems, and a technical tour on 1.7 GW (LCC- and MMC-) HVDC station will be provided. All presentations will be archived in the IEEE PELS and PES Resource Centers.
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ARPA-E ENERGY INNOVATION SUMMIT

ARPA-E ENERGY INNOVATION SUMMIT
February 27 – March 1, 2017
Washington, D.C.

ARPA-E held its eighth annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit February 27 – March 1, 2017 at the Gaylord Convention Center, right outside of Washington, D.C.

Attendees heard from top leaders, policy and business experts, including Lynn Good, chairman, president and CEO of Duke Energy; L. Rafael Reif, president of MIT; Ajay Royan, co-founder and Managing General Partner of Mithril Capital Management; Thomas Siebel, founder, chairman and CEO of C3 IoT; Thomas Hager, author of The Alchemy of Air; and Saul Griffith, founder and CEO of Otherlab.

Each year at the Summit, ARPA-E Program Directors and Fellows give a “Fast Pitch” – a rapid-paced succession of exciting current program concepts as well as some completely new, “out-of-the-box” ideas.

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2017 Asian Conference on Energy, Power and Transportation Electrification (ACEPT)

2017 Asian Conference on Energy, Power and Transportation Electrification (ACEPT)
October 24-26, 2017
Singapore
Professor Divan attended as a Plenary Speaker.

The Asian Conference on Energy, Power and Transportation Electrification (ACEPT) as a part of Asia Clean Energy Summit (ACES) is held in conjunction with Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW 2017) and will cooperate with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) to bring together the world leading experts to present emerging topics on energy, power, and transportation electrification.
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CDE Industry Partners Program – May 19th, 2017

The Center for Distributed Energy (CDE) has been established at Georgia Tech with financial support from the Georgia Research Alliance and Georgia Tech to do advanced research and to develop technologies and holistic solutions that can transform electricity delivery and utilization. Research areas include power conversion, industrial applications, energy conservation, distributed energy resources, distributed control of the grid, security and communications in energy, as well as microgrids, dc nanogrids and energy access for emerging markets. CDE partners include utilities, industry, manufacturers, research organizations, start-ups, VCs and other academic institutions with interests in aligned areas. In addition to doing traditional forward-looking cutting-edge academic research, CDE is uniquely focused on accelerating and de-risking technologies so that they can see faster adoption and higher impact.
 

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Energy Thought Leaders Symposium – May 18th, 2017

The Energy Thought Leaders Symposium is being hosted by the Center for Distributed Energy at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an annual event that brings together global thought-leaders and provides an interactive forum to look at the issues, challenges, disruptions and opportunities that the energy sector needs to manage over the next decade, with a particular focus on electrical energy generation, delivery and utilization.
A video of the event can be found here

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ARPA-E: Enhancing Capital Flow into Early Stage Energy Technologies

Enhancing Capital Flow into Early Stage Energy Technologies
January 31 – February 1, 2017
Denver, CO

ARPA-E held a workshop on “Enhancing Capital Flow into Early Stage Energy Technologies” on January 31- February 1, 2017 in the Denver, CO area. This workshop convened leading experts and thought leaders from the financial, clean energy market, multilaterals, family offices, technical and policy sectors to identify innovative cross-disciplinary mechanisms, gaps in policy or regulation, and business model innovations that can enhance the successful pathway to commercialization of early-stage clean energy technologies.
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