DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS
The International Conference on Energy, Environment and Climate Change (International Conference on Utilities and Exhibition) – ICUE 2020 being held at the Robert B. Banks Auditorium, AIT Conference Center, Pathumthani, Thailand started with the Opening Ceremony presided by AIT President Dr. Eden Y. Woon.
A Keynote Address by Dr. Edward Vine from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), USA quickly followed where he presented “Evaluation of Energy Programs and Policies in the Asia Pacific Region: Current Status, Challenges and Opportunities Ahead”. Three sessions were held:
Session A: Energy Resources and Technology, chaired by Dr. P. Abdul Salam of the Sustainable Energy Transition program of AIT).
Session B: MESfIA’s Special Session on “Energy Access” chaired by Dr. Jai Govind Singh and Dr. Antonios Tsikalakis from Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece.
Session C: Climate Change, was chaired by Dr. Indrajit Pal of AIT and Dr. Sylvia Szabo, who virtually co-chaired from Dongguk University, Korea.
Most of the papers on day 1 were presented virtually via ZOOM with only 4 of the 20 papers presented at AITCC.
ICUE 2020 is streamed live at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/icue.ait.9
Past editions of ICUE conferences were well-attended by delegates from at least 35 countries around the globe and with conference proceedings published in IEEE Xplore. This year’s edition is no different
- Recent trends in renewable (Green) energy systems (RES), such as wind power, hydropower, solar energy, biomass, biofuel, geothermal energy, wave energy, tidal energy, hydrogen, etc.
- Energy storage principles, trends and technologies
- Recent trends in fossil fuel (coal, oil and natural gas) technologies
- Power devices, driving circuits, control techniques for renewable energy systems
- RESs in smart grid
- Grid interactive systems in hybrid RESs
- Hybrid RESs with/without fossil-based technologies
- Smart cities and transportation
- Electric power generation, transmission and distribution
- Power system design, operation and interconnection
- Power system optimization, planning and analysis
- Energy infrastructures
- Greening the industrial sector’s energy use and options
- Reliability and maintenance in RESs
- Policies and strategies for promoting RESs
- Public awareness and education on RESs
- Energy efficiency in building designs
- Energy policies for improving energy access promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency, and GHG mitigation
- New directions for energy policies in the context of rapid digitalization, application of artificial intelligence, big data and data analytics
- Green financing, green economy initiatives
- New business and financial models for energy projects
- Energy and sustainable development, SDGs
- Trade-off and synergies of SDG goal 7
- Tariffs, incentives, and subsidies
- Air, water and soil pollution: estimation, technologies and policies
- Waste management
- Plastic pollution and management
- Environmental management systems and policy
- Cleaner production
- Ecosystems, services, accounting and management
- Greenhouse gas mitigation and climate change
- CO2 capture and sequestration
- Economics of climate change
- Accounting of greenhouse gases
- Deep carbonization
- Climate policy assessment (progress and analysis of Nationally Determined Contributions, NDCs)
- Carbon market and climate financing
- Low carbon and climate resilient cities
- Lifestyle and behavioural change and climate change
- Climate-energy-water-food nexus: policy and practice
- Climate change projections: models and methods
- Climate change impacts and adaptation in water
- Critical infrastructures and risks
