On the 21 June 2018, IDTechEx is very pleased to invite you to our Business & Technology Insight Forums at the prestigious Wolfson College in Cambridge (UK), to learn more about Off Grid Energy Independence in electricity. Our analysts from the Off Grid Energy Independence Team will be conducting two in-depth masterclasses on the following topics that share research carried out recently for our 17 new techno-marketing reports on various aspects of this subject. The forums cover:
- Off Grid Electricity Generation Needs, Systems and Markets.
- New Off Grid Energy Harvesting Technologies
Both are exclusively concerned with creation of electricity with zero emission, where it is needed.
The first forum, introduces the subject. Expect coverage of evolving market needs and technical virtuosity creating a large, growing market for off grid and fringe-of-grid systems. We show how the business is much larger than most realise, partly because a zero emission microgrid can be anything from a storm proof mobile desalinator to a solar aircraft nowadays. It can replace fossil fuel cooking, desalination, heating, propulsion and diesel gensets in future: trillions of dollars and a halo await you.
Attendees will be able to find answers to the following questions:
- What does a basic system look like now and in future and what is it for?
- Mobile, transportable or fixed: single, microgrid, minigrid or larger. Functional differences?
- Why is there a trend to off grid: 1MW Tesla chargers, which 10MW office block, which new cities, what 15MW airport, which 300MW desalinators?
- What are the market drivers and which are most important from robot farming to EIEVs?
- What future for the energy harvesting, power electronics, energy storage, mobility?
- What progress in the quest for reliability, predictability, cost reduction, empowerment?
The second forum, in the afternoon, goes much more deeply into the technologies that convert ambient energy into useful electrical power at 1kW to MW levels. Here we reveal off grid technical opportunities, parameters, physics, chemistry and progress including:
- What choice of technology families now and in future from electrodynamics to triboelectrics, piezoelectrics, thermoelectrics, DEG and more. Ranking of importance?
- Photovoltaics being reinvented as windows, roads, vehicle bodies. Progress, issues?
- Electrodynamics being reinvented as Airborne Wind Energy AWE, new ground-based wind turbines, new off grid river, road, path, wave and tidal power. Progress, issues?
- Eliminating batteries, poisons, intermittency, safety issues in future?
- Trend to combining several forms for continuity and backup?
- Here comes structural electronics and electrics?
Register by 27 April for a 35% attendee discount. Click here.
