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IV-13: Renewable Energy and Environmental Issues: Needs, Opportunities
and Perspectives of the New Millennium – Dr. H. Ossenbrink (JRC-EI,
European Commission)
Presentation abstracts
will appear here as soon as possible.
The renewable technologies
have to manage large amounts of complex data coming frequently
from incoherent sources of information, such as meteorology, infra­structure
or socio-economy. For instance, in Photovoltaic and Wind-energy,
data-processing facilities are under development for continuously
predicting the available energy resources every 5 minutes /1 hour
/6 hours /24 hours, in order to allow supply management at utility
control centers. The objective of the Session is to give an overview
of the state of the art and the current achievements of the major
renewable sources of energy. It intends to foster a better understanding
of useful heterogeneous database and information systems required
to estimate present and future potentials, indirect ecological
impact, substainability and management of energy resources including
the following :
- Achievement and
State of the Art in Photovoltaics and Solar energy, Wind energy,
Biomass, Combustion battery and Hydroelectricity ;
- Assessment of renewable
potential ;
- Prospective in the
developing world, emerging countries and GS and OECD countries;
Important open questions
will be debated, such as :
- How many people
on the planet are really without electricity and what are the
future trends?
- How to collect data
to measure the societal impact of having access to electricity
or other basic services which electricity can facilitate (clean
water, quality light, health services, communication, education)
- How do we process
data to know how many roofs in Europe face South and present
potential sites for Photovoltaics?
- How to process data
to access off shore windenergy potential?
- Supply side management
of renewable energies;
- Using latest information
and communication technology to sell "Green Electrons"
- Taking inventory
of Bio-mass resources and their quantitative impact on CO2
reduction
- Processing data
on environmental impact of photovoltaic materials processing
and recycling;
- Defining International
Standards for performance and quality of renewables;
The Session will consist
of invited talks, short papers, round tables and posters.
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