Keynote 4: Renewable Energies Dominated Grid: Visibility, Opportunity, and Challenges

Electric energy security is one of the most challenging tasks that faces humanity. The fluctuating cost, geopolitical conflicts, limited sources of fossil fuels, in addition to the need to reduce greenhouse gasses emissions, have made
renewable resources very attractive in today’s world economy and energy mix. The potential for renewable energy resources is enormous as they can, in principle, continually meet many times the world’s current and future energy
demand. Therefore, various types of renewable energies will have a significant share in the future world’s energy portfolio. Hence, various countries worldwide are now concentrating on advancing their share of renewable energy resources and targeting to dominate their grids with such clean energy. Accordingly, during the seminar it will be presented the future renewable energy dominated grid, prospectives and challenges associated with it. Finally, the talk will represent the impact of smart grid paradigm to enable the domination of renewable energy and power electronics in the future grid paradigm.