KEYNOTE
Professor Stephanie Pincetl
Founding Director Center for Sustainable Communities, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA.
Title: Understanding Building Energy Data, a key to a More Equitable Energy Transition
– Impacts of and on Urban Development and Digitalisation.
Building energy use, electricity and natural gas consumption, coupled with grid infrastructure and building characteristics such as age, size, use, industrial classification code of users, and sociodemographic characteristics of consumers, can reveal a great deal about cities. With a desire to decarbonize building energy use, it becomes critical to know the baselines of the current system to inform urban development patterns into the future, and the use of digital information and technologies. In the California case, new development will need to be zero net energy, integrate solar technologies, and at the same time, going forward soon, is the implementation of time of use pricing. This is a complex mix that requires, at a minimum, knowledge of the multiple components of building energy use today, including grid capacity, for a just transition.
Stephanie Pincetl is a Professor in Residence and founding Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities at the UCLA Institute of the Environment. Dr. Pincetl conducts research on environmental policies and governance is expert in bringing together interdisciplinary teams of researchers across the biophysical and engineering sciences with the social sciences to address problems of complex urban systems and environmental management.
Dr Pincetl has written extensively about land use in California, environmental justice, habitat conservation efforts, water and energy policy, socio-technical systems and urban ecology. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation to conduct collaborative research with biophysical scientists on urban ecology and water management in Los Angeles, as well as from the California state Energy Commission PIER and EPIC programs. Her book, Transforming California, the Political History of Land Use in the State, is the definitive work on land use politics and policies of California. She is the leading author of the urban section of the Southwest Technical Report to the National Climate Assessment and a contributing author of the urban section of the National Climate Assessment.
Dr. Pincetl has a PhD in Urban Planning and teaches at UCLA. She has taught at the University of Paris, the Institut de Sciences Politiques, has received a number of Fulbright scholarships and been a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto Japan.
Björn Jonsson
Head of Industrial Automation Division, and HUB Manager Control Technologies Northern Europe, ABB AB Sweden.
Title: How process automation is making the world more resource and energy efficient – future trends
The world is facing major challenges in coping with the supply of food and other necessities to all people, while ensuring a sustainable and environmentally friendly future. It places great demands on the process industry to streamline their processes – utilize raw material as efficiently as possible, increase the quality of the products with reduced material usage and minimize energy use. To achieve this, new digital technology and advanced automation are the most effective means. With relatively small investments, great effects can be achieved.
Today, the collection of data from the entire plant can be done faster and more accurately, while in the same time it is processed using various algorithms, advanced control systems or cloud services. It provides decision support to operators and predicted maintenance. It enables production planning based on customer orders from raw materials, overall production steps to distribution of the product and model-based control and optimization of not only individually processes, but entire factories or even entire corporations via Collaborative Operation Centers by the supplier’s experts around the world 365/24.
Björn Jonsson is Head of Industrial Automation Division, and HUB Manager Control Technologies Northern Europe, ABB AB Sweden. He has a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Exchange Studies at University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia and
Master thesis at Ericsson (Bluetooth Network Scheduling/simulation ), Stockholm, Sweden. 2012 – 2016 he was Global Service Manager Process Industries, ABB, Dubai UAE., 2010-2012 Local Business Unit Manager, Metals Systems Northern Europe region, Process Automation, ABB AB and 2004-2010 different engineering and management roles in the metal industry control area. He is also chairman of the board of Automation Region Swedish Triple Helix Cluster organization with some 120+ member companies and other organizations in the Automation area. The organization is driving development of this area with respect to business and research and innovation where industry is working closely related to academy and society. He also been part of the national business development board initiated by the minister for business in Sweden. He is also Board Member of SynerLeap, ABB AB Sweden growth HUB for smaller SME companies and Board member Svemin, Swedish Mining association.
Michael Obersteiner
Program Director of the Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Title: What do we know about the global negative emissions energy system – 2050+
The European Union and an increasing number of Parties to the UNFCCC have declared zero-net emission targets to be reached by 2050. The technical prospects of changing the energy system of these economies into delivering near zero emissions are being clarified today. However, a vibrant global energy system which delivers massive amounts of negative emissions has received little attention although this era will start a little more than 30 years in the future – a technical lifetime of a power plant and a time horizon most of us will live in. A large deployment of native emission technologies will need to happen some of which will be connected to energy generation while others will require massive energy input. Clearly, the energy needed to propel negative emission processes will become an important component of overall energy demand. Furthermore, only few have realized that negative emission technologies cannot be incentivized by traditional carbon regulatory instruments such as tax and cap-and-trade systems, but will require considerable amounts of direct subsidies. The financial implications and the subsequent intergenerational equity issues related to late century have not been tackled. Finally, we conclude with a discussion on the opportunities arising from company level science-based GHG emission target setting and the role of negative emissions in these.
Michael Obersteiner has been Program Director of the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria and has now assumed the directorship of the Environmental Change Institute in Oxford. Michael has lead large scale interdisciplinary research projects in the fields of integrated assessment of climate, energy and land-use. He is author of over 250 scientific papers covering a very wide range of science fields. Currently he serves in UNEP’s international resource panel (IRP) is lead convening author (CLA) of two IPBES chapters and a steering member to UNISDR’s Global Assessment report. He completed graduate studies in Forest Science at the University of Life Sciences, Economics at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna and Columbia University, New York.
WORKSHOP & PANEL
Workshop “Architecture & Model of Sustainable Power & Energy Systems”
As one of the supporters, CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems (CSEE JPES) is going to hold a forum entitled “Architecture & Model of Sustainable Power & Energy Systems” at ICAE2019. Top scholars from both academia and industry will be invited. This event covers the following topics but not limited to:
- Sustainability of energy systems
- Integration of renewable energies
- Multienergy carrier energy systems
- IOT based Intelligent energy systems
- Cyber Physical mechanism for Sustainable Power & Energy Systems
- Architecture of Sustainable Power & Energy Systems
- Model of Sustainable Power & Energy Systems
When submitting your paper, pls choose the track: Architecture & Model of Sustainable Power & Energy Systems
