Workshop: Sustainable Energy Development: A case for US and Africa; held in Nairobi, Kenya on August 12-16, 2011.

研讨会：可持续能源发展：美国和非洲的案例；

• 批准号: 1057048
• 负责人: James Momoh
• 金额: $ 4.97万
• 依托单位: Howard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1057048&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Sustainable; Energy; Development; case

Several active projects in the electricity sector are actively discussed both in the U.S. and Africa towards achieving sustainable development. The assessment of electrification projects is of particular interest based on renewable energy which has proven to be successful. It has helped to assure affordable, accessible and sustainable energy requirements to improve health delivery, transportation, finance, water and human capacity building. In developing countries, several lessons can be learned on why development project failed or unsustainable. Some of the reasons include the lack of framework to meet multiple objectives that include alignment of objectives of the projects with sustainable development, the lack of understanding of the impact of uncertainties during project take-off and lack of proper coordination and management. Other factors include lack of advanced system engineering tools to account for uncertainties and decision making. These factors are the major concerns to be addressed in the workshop on sustainable development and energy for the US and Africa.The intellectual merits of the proposed Workshop will include:1. What is an appropriate framework for developing energy related project so that we can guarantee sustainable development?2. How to incorporate appropriate uncertainties in modeling of renewable resources.3. Development or evaluation of advanced tools for analysis, to account for multiple objectives, uncertainties and variability in renewable energy development project with the sustainability issued as an objectives.4. What education and research needs are to be in place to ensure a successful frame work for energy and other related engineering projects are successful and sustainable. The proposal through the workshop within ICPSOP will include experts from the US and Africa to present their viewpoints based on case studies relevant to their countries as examples. Intellectual Merits: The proposal is aimed at developing a 4-day workshop to address strategies for designing and developing electrification project based on renewable energy which will lead to meeting project goals and sustainable development including various form of uncertainties. This workshop will engage experts in system engineering, power system and economics, energy market and pricing. Through research work, and best practices, participants will provide case studies, and propose solution and recommendation on how to deal with issues of uncertainty with foresight for sustainability in achieving electrical engineering projects development. The use of computational intelligence has developed tools with capability to handle foresight and renewable energy resources with model of variability. In additional, storage technology and inverter technology research needs and challenges related to renewable energy conversion and processing will also be given at the workshop. The experts in this area will provide a catalytic role to ensure the goals of the workshop are met.The broader impacts will include:1. The workshop is aimed at developing fundamental understanding of why development based on non - alignment of objectives may result in the failure of engineering projects. The outcome of the workshop will provide answers to questions of how to develop capacity, research and educational topics with sample case studies from the US and Africa.2. The methodology to achieve robust transformation in technology evolution using renewable energy for development will be discussed. The workshop will also serve as a forum for presentation of best practices based on participating countries profile and geographical location. In addition the potential for business of renewable energy resources (RER) in each of the countries will be highlighted. Research and development portfolio will be presented for stakeholders at the conference. The outcome of the results of the workshop will be published in IEEE journal and proceedings.

美国和非洲正在积极讨论电力行业的几个活跃项目，以实现可持续发展。基于已被证明是成功的可再生能源的电气化项目评估特别令人感兴趣。它有助于确保负担得起、可获得和可持续的能源需求，以改善卫生服务、交通、金融、水和人员能力建设。 在发展中国家，可以从发展项目失败或不可持续的原因中吸取一些教训。部分原因包括缺乏实现多个目标的框架，包括项目目标与可持续发展的一致性、对项目启动期间不确定性的影响缺乏了解以及缺乏适当的协调和管理。其他因素包括缺乏先进的系统工程工具来解释不确定性和决策。这些因素是美国和非洲可持续发展和能源研讨会要解决的主要问题。拟议研讨会的智力优点将包括： 1．开发能源相关项目以保证可持续发展的适当框架是什么？2．如何在可再生资源建模中纳入适当的不确定性。 3．开发或评估先进的分析工具，以考虑可再生能源开发项目的多重目标、不确定性和可变性，并以可持续性为目标。4．教育和研究需要到位，以确保能源和其他相关工程项目的成功框架是成功和可持续的。 通过 ICPSOP 研讨会提出的提案将包括来自美国和非洲的专家，他们将根据与其国家相关的案例研究来阐述他们的观点。 智力优点：该提案旨在举办为期 4 天的研讨会，讨论基于可再生能源的电气化项目的设计和开发策略，从而实现项目目标和可持续发展，包括各种形式的不确定性。 该研讨会将邀请系统工程、电力系统和经济学、能源市场和定价领域的专家参加。通过研究工作和最佳实践，参与者将提供案例研究，并就如何处理不确定性问题提出解决方案和建议，以实现电气工程项目开发的可持续性。 计算智能的使用开发了能够处理具有可变性模型的预见性和可再生能源资源的工具。 此外，研讨会还将讨论与可再生能源转换和处理相关的存储技术和逆变器技术研究需求和挑战。该领域的专家将发挥催化作用，确保研讨会目标的实现。更广泛的影响将包括：1．该研讨会旨在加深对为什么基于目标不一致的开发可能导致工程项目失败的基本理解。研讨会的成果将通过美国和非洲的案例研究来回答如何发展能力、研究和教育主题等问题。2．将讨论利用可再生能源促进发展实现技术演进的稳健转型的方法。该研讨会还将作为一个论坛，根据参与国概况和地理位置介绍最佳做法。此外，每个国家的可再生能源（RER）业务潜力也将得到强调。将在会议上向利益相关者介绍研究和开发组合。研讨会的成果将发表在 IEEE 期刊和会议论文集上。