IEEA 2025
Speakers
Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Hideki Ochiai
Yokohama National University, Japan
Title: to be updated
Abstract: to be updated
Biodata: Hideki Ochiai received the B.E. degree in communication engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1996 and M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in information and communication engineering from The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Research Associate at The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. Since April 2003, he has been with Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, where he is currently a Professor. From 2003 to 2004, he was a Visiting Scientist at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. From 2019 to 2020, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, and a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, NJ, USA. He is an IEEE Fellow.
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Keynote Speaker II
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Prof. Weerakorn Ongsakul
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Title: Smart Grid Development for Carbon Neutral Utilities
Abstract:
This research
National Smart Grid
Development for
Energy Security
(research) is
conducted not only
to gather
information,
principles and
goals, regarding all
related national
strategies and
development plans:
Power Development
Plan 2018 每 2037
Revision 1 (PDP2018
Rev.1), National
Strategy 2018 每
2037, National
Reformation Plan,
Thailand＊s
Short-term (2017 每
2021) & Medium-term
(2022 每 2031) Smart
Grid Development
Plan, but also to
study, analyze in
order to purpose the
activities in which
are essential to
develop
national-electrical
infrastructure,
consisting of
generation,
transmission and
distribution system
from the existing
one to smart grid.
To do so, the
researcher applies
Qualitative Research
to accumulate and
examine any data
stated in those
national strategies
and development
plans, including any
related academic
papers and
researches, which
all lead to the
results of this
research. Moreover,
Descriptive Research
is utilized to
represent the
results which are
that even smart grid
is accomplished and
established for
national-electrical
infrastructure;
still, the
fundamental system
consists of
generation,
transmission and
distribution based
on Enhanced Single
Buyer (ESB)
structure. However,
smart grid having
more complicated
energy-transfer and
communication system
than the existing
one does have is
able to bring all
stakeholders to
participate in
new-upcoming
business models at
all voltage level
such as Private Load
Aggregator, National
Energy Trading
Platform (NETP) /
Energy Trading
Platform (ETP) and
Third Party Access
(TPA) for example in
which could maintain
national energy
security, regardless
of how much
increasing amount of
energy generated by
renewables would be.
Additionally, 244
million-tons of
carbon dioxide
equivalent emitted
between 2022 每 2037
is expected to be
abated by the growth
of renewable energy
and leads Thailand
to be the nation of
Carbon Neutrality
and Net Zero
Emission within 2050
and 2065
respectively.
Biodata: Serving as an academician for over 25 years, Prof. Weerakorn Ongsakul has dedicated his efforts to developing qualified and committed power and energy professionals in the region. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst Charterholder and Certified Energy Risk Professional. He is serving as a Board of Directors of PEA and PEA Encom International Co. Ltd., and as the RTG Faculty Representative at AIT. He has also been serving as the Secretary General for GMSARN since 2006. He is an IEEE Senior Member, and for his contributions to IEEE PES Thailand Chapter he was presented with Outstanding Engineer Award in 2019. He has authored 2 books and 10 book chapters alongside 95 international refereed journals and more than 150 international conference proceedings. His areas of interest include Intelligent System Applications to Energy Systems, Power System Operation & Control, Power System Restructuring and Deregulation, Smart Grid, and Energy & Financial Risk Management.
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Invited Speaker I
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Prof. Soteris Kalogirou
Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Title: Renewable Energy Systems: Current Status in the World and Prospects
Abstract: This presentation examines the current status of renewables in the world. The presentation starts with some facts about the climate change, global warming and the effects of human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels on the climate problem. It then examines the current status of conventional resources of energy such as oil, coal and natural gas and their reserves based on current consumption and known resources, followed by a general outline of the status of renewables in the world, which includes the shares with respect to conventional fuel use for electricity and power and jobs created. Then the basic forms of renewables are examined in some detail, which include solar thermal, both for low and high temperature applications, photovoltaics, hydro power, onshore and offshore wind energy systems and biomass/biofuels. In all these the basic technology is presented followed by the current status as well as the prospects of the technology and new research findings.
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Biodata:
Prof. 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
Vice Rector on
Economics, Personnel
and Development of
the university. In
addition to his
Ph.D., he holds the
title of D.Sc. He is
a Fellow of the
European Academy of
Sciences and
Founding Member of
the Cyprus Academy
of Sciences, Letters
and Arts.
For more than 35
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,
photovoltaics,
geothermal energy
and absorption
cooling.
He has a large
number of
publications in
books, 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
twenty 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 is a member of
World Renewable
Energy Network
(WREN), American
Society of Heating
Refrigeration and
Air-conditioning
Engineers (ASHRAE),
Institute of
Refrigeration (IoR)
and International
Solar Energy Society
(ISES).
Invited Speaker II
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Assoc. Prof. Satoshi Matsuda
Shizuoka University, Japan
Title: The Real Goal is not a De-carbonized Society, but a Society Independent of Fossil Fuels
Abstract: The energy policy in G7 and other developed countries is now governed by the hypothesis that man made CO2 is the main cause of climate crisis, thus de-carbonization of the society should be pursued. But in fact, this hypothesis is unsubstantiated argument from the stand point of science. Over 1800 scientists have declared that there is no climate emergency (World Climate Declaration), in which they emphasized climate policies should be more scientific. The presenter also will show several evidences confirming that man made CO2 has little effect on the global climate system: 1) there is no rapid increase of global atmospheric temperature observed, 2) there is little correlation between the change of CO2 concentration and the temperature in the air, 3) the global total amount of CO2 cycle is over 200 Gt-C/yr, while man made CO2 is less than 10 Gt-C/yr, meaning that the latter is less than 5% of the former, and that man made CO2 has little effect on the change of atmospheric CO2. If this point is true, the de-carbonization policy has no meaning at all, which contains hydrogen, ammonia, e-fuels, CCSs, carbon emissions rights trading and so on. Because they are useful for saving the emission of CO2 at the end use only, not useful for essential saving of fossil fuels. On the other hand, the society independent of fossil fuels must be pursued for human society, because the amount of fossil fuels is limited. Although the COP 28 agreed ※Transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems§, there is no concrete measures for this transition indicated. We should discuss with a serious mind about the problem how to construct a sustainable society without fossil fuels. In this presentation, the problems about this transition will be discussed from several points of view; energy supply system which contains the selection of primary as well as secondary energy, alternatives to thermal engines, heat demand and supply, industrial manufacturing, food production, transport system and so on.
Biodata:
1978 Bachelor of
Chemical
Engineering, Kyoto
University; 1983 Dr.
of Chemical
Environmental
Engineering, Tokyo
Institute of
Technology; 1983
Res. Assoc. , Tokyo
Institute of
Technology; 1992
Assoc. Prof. ,
Faculty of
Engineering,
Shizuoka University
Major Research Area:
Waste Treatment
Technologies using
Microorganisms; e.g.
composting of
kitchen waste
(aerobic process),
methane fermentation
(anaerobic one).
Technology
Assessment (mainly
renewable energies).
Life Cycle Analysis
(mainly technologies
for recycling of
wastes). Global
Environmental
Problems.
Invited Speaker III
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Dr. Anupam Khajuria
United Nations Centre for Regional Development
(UNCRD), Japan
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Biodata: Anupam Khajuria joined United Nations Centre for Regional Development since 2014 as a Researcher. Earlier, she was received her Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from Osaka University, Japan. She then worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India, and at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Dr. Anupam Khajuria has delivered a number of invited and keynote talks in various international conferences and has organized several international Forums/Conferences. Her research is focused on how 3Rs and resource efficient policies and strategies will contribute towards new global agendas, such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda. One of her current research involved exploring the potential of Circular Economy in aligning with several global agendas. Dr. Anupam Khajuria is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the journal ＆Circular Economy＊ and is also serving as an invited Editor in various journals.
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