1. Professor Hideaki OHGAKI
Keynote Title: Effect of Different Electrification Schemes on Quality of Life in ASEAN Rural Villages
Abstract:
We study the impacts of rural electrification on the quality of life of four Southeast Asian rural villages in Malaysia, Cambodia, and Myanmar, focusing on the effect of different electrification schemes, grid extension, centralized solar system and solar home system. Despite the common perception that the grid extension is a preferable scheme than the solar systems, we find no meaningful difference in terms of the impacts on the villagers’ quality of life. Our findings highlight the level of deprivation of the villagers, their specific human needs, and their context (geography, demographics, and culture), which all play essential roles on the effect of any electrification scheme.
Biography
Currently working as professor of Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University. He was engaged at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology until 2001. His research interest is the nuclear engineering, especially on electron accelerators and radiation measurements. On the other hands, he has an interest in renewable energy especially on implementation of the system and social issues in ASEAN. He has been acting as a coordinator of the energy engineering field of AUN/SEED-Net program promoted by JICA since 2014 and appointed as a representative of energy and environmental field in JASTIP promoted by JST since 2015. So far, he published more than 220 international reviewed papers, 15-patents, and more than 70-invited talks.
2. Prof. Ir. Dr. Ab. Halim Abu Bakar
Keynote Title: Variable Inverter – Based Generation Integration
Abstract:
Nowadays, renewable energy utilization becomes significant due to environmental concerns about the increase of greenhouse emissions and depletion of fossil fuel resources. Photovoltaic system (PV) has attracted interest due to free sunlight and abundant source of energy with no air contamination. Initially small number of PVs was installed especially on roof tops. Nowadays grid connection of the system is a common phenomenon. These systems benefit firstly the grid by improving the reliability of the supply and secondly the owners through revenue earning. However PV systems without energy storage are intermittent power sources. As a result they bring about some new issues to the utility, particularly as the penetration levels of renewable energy systems all over the power system continue to increase. Technical requirements from both PV system and grid side need to be fulfilled to maintain the reliability of the power system. Many utilities handle many interconnection requests every year and made significant investments in the interconnection study process. Recently Large Scale Solar PVs (LSS) installed in multitude of locations are raising reliability concerns because such generations are not simply offsetting the load. In order to meet the reliability criteria of the grid system, a system study is required to identify the most suitable connection scheme to the nearby grid. The connection option is tested to ensure that it meets the LSS requirements based on the grid code. The study involves:
In order to determine the technical feasibility of the option of the connection, the performance of the option base cases are analysed under normal and contingency situations and compared with the planning criteria
Biography
Prof Dr Ab Halim Abu Bakar received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Technology. He spent 30 years of industrial experience with Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) before joining University of Malaya. Prof Ir Dr Halim is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Malaysia, Member of IEEE, Cigre, Chartered Engineer (UK) and P.Eng (Malaysia). Currently he is a professor with the UM Power Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya, Malaysia. He is an established academician and a practical engineer. He has to-date published 89 ISI and 141 Scopus papers in journals and 47 papers in proceedings internationally. He has successfully supervised to completion 14 PhD, 4 master by research (M.Eng.Sc), 1 master of philosophy (M.Phil) and 50 Masters by course work project (M.Eng) and has H index of 24. He is also involved as a reviewer for several Web of Science international journals and several international conferences. Prof Ir Dr Halim won several excellent awards during his professional and academic carrier. In 2008 he won IEEE PES Malaysian Chapter Outstanding Engineering Award and MNC Cigre Contribution award 2018. His research interest includes power system protection and power system transients.
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Professor Soteris Kalogirou is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. He is currently the elected Chair of the Department. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Glamorgan in 1995. In June 2011 he received from the University of Glamorgan the title of D.Sc. He is recently elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, letters and Arts.
For more than 30 years, he is actively involved in research in the area of solar energy and particularly in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination and absorption cooling. Additionally, since 1995 he is involved in a pioneering research dealing with the use of artificial intelligence methods, like artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic, for the modelling and performance prediction of energy and solar energy systems.
He has a large number of publications as book chapters, international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Energy, and Editorial Board Member of another fifteen journals. He is the editor of the book Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Nova Science Inc., co-editor of the book Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Springer, editor of the book McEvoy’s Handbook of Photovoltaics, published by Academic Press of Elsevier and author of the books Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, and Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems, published by Academic Press of Elsevier.
He has been a member of World Renewable Energy Network (WREN) since 1992 and is a member of the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Institute of Refrigeration (IoR) and International Solar Energy Society (ISES).