11:30
- Tuesday, 31. October 202311:30 to 12:00
Solar cooling technologies for emerging markets
- Prof. Dr. Uli Jakob
The energy demand for air-conditioning is growing faster than any other energy consumption in buildings. The main share of the projected growth for space cooling comes from emerging economies and will more than triple by 2050 to 6,000 TWh/a…
14:30
- Tuesday, 31. October 202314:30 to 15:00
The Integration of Solar Energy by Flexible Sector Coupling
- Dr. Andreas Hauer
For a 100 % decarbonized energy system, our final energy demand has to be covered by renewable sources. To achieve this, the energy actually needed has to be supplied. Therefore, the different demand sectors – electricity, mobility and thermal…
11:30
- Thursday, 02. November 202311:30 to 12:00
The role of DRE in the rural segment
- Amit Kumar Singh Parihar
Utility-scale RE systems are considered as preferred options for power sector decarbonization. However, owing to challenges associated with their on-ground implementation and also considering a socio-economic developmental perspective, there is a…
- Thursday, 02. November 202311:30 to 12:00
Global Outlook of PV Technologies for the Second Half of the Decade
- Prof. Eicke Weber
The keynote will talk about the global outlook for PV technology at the juncture of moving from the 2nd-gen C-Si PV technology (PERC and variations) to 3rd-gen C-Si PV technologies that offers higher efficiencies at low costs, and later to 4th-…
16:30
- Thursday, 02. November 202316:30 to 17:00
Towards 100% urban renewable energy islands, a system analysis
- Chiel Boonstra
The key message is to show how connected urban renewable energy islands could develop, without a strong need for external energy sources and heavy infrastructure. He will address the dependencies between low demand, renewable supply profiles and…
- Thursday, 02. November 202316:30 to 17:00
Towards 100% Renewables: Challenges and Opportunities
- Prof. Rangan Banerjee
The goal of countries and the world moving to 100% renewables has been recognised as desirable and achievable. The initial scenarios and studies were criticised as being unrealistic, with several flaws outlined by critics. Recent studies,…
09:00
- Friday, 03. November 202309:00 to 09:30
Concentrating solar thermal technologies initiatives towards a net-zero emissions in 2050
- Dr. José González-Aguilar
In parallel to the comercial deployment of concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies for power generation, other innovative solutions focused on the use of CST in the decarbonisation of industrial processes (solar heat) and transport sector…
11:30
- Friday, 03. November 202311:30 to 12:00
Innovative Solar Thermal Power Projects in India
- Deepak Ghadia
- Dr. B K Jayasimha Rathod
The keynote will commence with a speech of Mr. Deepak Gadhia on large area solar dish of 500 sq.m., the world's largest. Following this, Dr. B K Jayasimha Rathod will delve into the intricacies of the 1 MW round-the-clock solar thermal power…
- Friday, 03. November 202311:30 to 12:00
Solving Solar Resource Challenges to Enable Accelerated Deployment and Integration of Photovoltaics
- Dr. Manajit Sengupta
Energy Meteorology as a specific area of Meteorology has been around for at least the last three decades. With the acceleration of solar energy deployment over the last decade energy meteorology researchers have been working to solve various new…