Topic: Zero-Carbon Intelligent Energy Systems and Energy Revolution

Speaker: Prof. Xiaohong GUAN

Date: September 23, 2022 (Friday)

Time: 16:30 - 17:45

Venue: Room W201, West Wing, Administration Building

Language: Chinese

Abstract: 

Carbon emission from power and energy systems poses a huge challenge on the efforts to contain the global climate change. Utilization of new renewable energy such as wind and solar is inevitable.  Since new renewable energy sources are highly uncertain, and current power systems worldwide need realtime supply-demand balance, energy storage technology is the key for fully utilization of new renewable energy sources.  

 The speech focuses on the new results on zero-carbon intelligent energy system that will support the national strategy on the “carbon peak” and the “carbon neutralization” as the key technology. Production, storage and transportation, and utilization of hydrogen as a main secondary energy source are introduced.  It is shown that with the nontraditional energy storage technology the hydrogen enabled zero-carbon intelligent energy system provides an ideal infrastructure for energy supply and consumption without carbon emission and pollution, and would lead to the energy revolution towards resolving the global warming issue. The first hydrogen enabled zero-carbon intelligent energy system has been built to supply green energy for the athlete campus, the 5G base station and the datacenter.

Speaker Profile:

Professor Xiaohong Guan received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Control Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1993.  He was a senior consulting engineer with Pacific Gas and Electric from 1993 to 1995. He visited the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University 1999-2000. Since 1995 he has been with the Systems Engineering Institute at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xian, China, and was appointed as the Cheung Kong Professor of Systems Engineering in 1999, and Dean of Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering since 2008. From 2001 he has also been with the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and severed the Head of Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, 2003-2008.  

 Professor Guan is a member of Chinese Academy of Science and IEEE Fellow. His research interests include economics and security of networked systems, optimization based planning and scheduling of electrical power and energy systems, manufacturing systems, etc., and cyber-physical systems including smart grid, etc.