Dear Working Group Members,
The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to this Renewable Energy Working Group Meeting where we will receive a presentation by Dr. Eric Martinot, professor of management and economics at the Beijing Institute of Technology, on Friday, 9th of January, 15:00 – 17:00pm, at the European Chamber Beijing.
Renewable Energy Futures: Power-Sector Integration and Cases from Around the World
The REN21 Renewable Global Futures Report provides a pioneering synthesis of the full range of credible possibilities for the future of renewable energy. The report is not one scenario or viewpoint, but captures the contemporary thinking of 170 leading experts from around the world, including CEOs and parliamentarians, as expressed in face-to-face interviews with the report author. The report also incorporates the results of recently published energy scenarios by a range of organisations. The report shows future thinking about energy shares of renewables, finance and investment, policies, and a range of integration options for electric power grids, buildings, industry, and transport. Dr. Martinot will highlight some features of this report, especially the integration challenge for the electric power sector. He will then discuss his more recent research in Germany, Denmark, California, and China, showing what these jurisdictions are already doing today to integrate and balance high shares of renewables in the power sector, and associated business opportunities. Challenges include electricity market design, electricity pricing, capacity mandates, transmission planning, control of distributed generation resources, “smart” inverters, grid interconnection, business models for demand management and energy storage, and the changing role of traditional electric power companies.
Bio on Dr. Eric Martinot:
Dr. Eric Martinot is an internationally recognised writer, scholar, and speaker on the subject of renewable energy, with over 25 years’ experience and 70 publications in this field. He is currently professor of management and economics at the Beijing Institute of Technology, senior fellow with the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies in Japan, and senior fellow with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Germany. He holds a PhD in Energy and Resources from the University of California Berkeley and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly a senior energy specialist with the World Bank, where he analysed markets and projects in developing countries, and guided investment strategies by the World Bank and other UN agencies. He is well known internationally for his widely referenced publications, the REN21 Renewables Global Status Report, which he created in 2005 and wrote as lead author until 2010, and the REN21 Renewables Global Futures Report, which he wrote during 2011-2013. He is currently writing a series of books on renewable energy futures and power-sector integration of renewables, to be published by Springer in 2015-2016.
Tentative Agenda
- Welcome & Introduction by Frank Haugwitz, Vice Chair of the Renewable Energy WG
- Presentation by Dr. Eric Martinot
- Q&A
As always, we welcome your suggestions of topics and speakers for this and future Working Group meetings.