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ESI & LKY School Special Topics Seminar

  • Dates: 07 – 07 Oct, 2010
  • Location: ESI Conference Room

Date:    Thursday, 7 October 2010
Time:   10:00 am to 11:30 am
Venue: ESI Conference Room
              29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
              Block A  #10-01
              Singapore 119620

Attendance will be limited to the first 30 respondents. Please register your name, organisation, designation and email address via the ESI website at www.esi.nus.edu.sg  e-Registration. For enquiries,  please contact Ms Jan Lui at 65162000.

About the Seminar

Microgrids, Distributed Generation, and Energy Poverty: Lessons from the US and Asia

David McLean (NextEnergy, Detroit) and Malavika Bambawale (LKY School, Singapore) will give informal talks on microgrids, distributed generation, and simple rural electrification. Joining them will be Anthony D'Agostino (LKY School) and Prof. Michael Quah (ESI), who will introduce the two guest speakers and partricipate in an informal roundtable with them to dicuss lessons that come from these technology systems innovations in uses that range from applications in the US military to rural villages in Asia.

Please join us if you are interested in:

  • issues in harnessing diverse energy sources
  • microgrids and the smarts that would be of value to the "SmartGrid"
  • the challenges of rural electrification globally
  • waste-to-energy

Questions: Write to Prof. Michael Quah (esiqcm@nus.edu.sg)


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