[Legacy Report] IEEE UP PES/IAS Chapter lecture
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Topic: The World in 2030 and the Disruptive Potential of Solar PV and Electric Vehicles Speaker: Dr. K. N. Srivastava, ABB Global Research Lab, Sweden. Time & Venue: 5:15 pm to 6:15 pm, 24th August, 2015, Lecture Hall L10, IIT Kanpur Abstract of the talk: The world of 2030 will be radically different from the world of today. Some of the major tectonic shifts predicted are growth of middle class globally, shift of economic powers to the east and the south, widespread aging, massive urbanization, food, water and energy pressures. These trends exist even today and are virtually certain to continue during the next 15-20 years with much greater momentum. Food, water and energy are inseparably connected. Water is an input for producing agricultural goods in the fields and along the entire agro-food supply chain. Energy is required to pump water from groundwater or surface water sources. Energy is also required to distribute water and food, to power tractors and irrigation machinery and to process and transport agricultural goods. The world of 2030 will be hungrier for energy. Total consumption of coal, oil, and gas has doubled since the early 1970s and electrical generation from all sources has nearly tripled. Despite this, more than 1.3 billion people still live without electricity and even without providing them access to electricity, the demand for energy is expected to go up by another 50 percent between now and 2030. As fossil fuels are burnt, they produce greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide or pollution, including sulphur dioxide. The reserves of fossil fuels are also limited. Solar PV is an essential component in the new energy revolution. The technology cost curve suggests that PV will become the world’s main source of energy well before 2030. The complementary technologies that will, together with PV, disrupt the whole energy industry are electric vehicles and self-driving cars. Solar PV dematerializes energy. You don’t burn anything to charge your computer. The same thing happens if you charge your electric vehicle with solar energy. When you combine these disruptive characteristics of PV with the complementary disruptive characteristics of electric vehicles, it’s a one-two punch that conventional energy companies will not be able to survive. This talk presents a look forward at the future of electricity generation, use of electricity and how the power system would develop to meet the needs of consumers. These technologies are disruptive in nature and expected to shape the future of electric power systems in view of fast declining cost of solar cells, Lithium-ion batteries and sensors.
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