Invitación Charla Enabling the Transition to a Sustainable Future Professor Aristides Kiprakis

viernes 30 may. 2025 13:30 → 14:30 America/Santiago

Estimados,

Están todos cordialmente invitados a la charla que se realizará el próximo viernes 30 de mayo en la sala de clases del Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, a las 13:30 hrs. 

"Enabling the Transition to a Sustainable Future"

Expositor:  Professor Aristides Kiprakis, Chair of Agile Energy Systems, University of Edinburgh. 

Abstract: "From the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the 1750s until the 1880s, it took humanity 130 years to develop the technology and infrastructure needed to mass-generate and transmit energy using electricity. It then took us another century to figure out that we are doing it wrong. The oil crisis of the mid-1970s and the first signs of anthropogenic climate change forced us to rethink the way we generate, distribute, and consume energy; but it wasn’t until the turn of the 21st century that the first serious attempts to deploy low-carbon energy technologies on a large scale. Fast-forward to the present day, the modern power system features technologies, components and materials that did not exist outside the laboratory two decades ago, while it is being controlled using novel methods including advanced control and artificial intelligence, made possible by the advent of high-speed telecommunications and the explosion of cheap computing power. New power system analysis and design tools are being developed, but these also require a new generation of engineers with a completely different skillset. In view of the onsetting climate crisis, countries are committing to shifting to a net-zero carbon energy system, with Scotland being one of the pioneers. But are these efforts enough to avert the crisis? This talk will give an overview of the recent technological advances that enable the utilisation of lowcarbon solutions and will highlight how the research at the University of Edinburgh helps pave the way for the transition towards a sustainable, citizen-centric, agile energy system."

**La charla será en inglés.**

Habrá colación y bebida para los asistentes por lo que la asistencia será controlada. Los esperamos a las 13:30 hrs. Si vas a participar, favor inscríbete en el siguiente link y especifica si tienes alguna restricción alimentaria:

https://indico.ing.puc.cl/event/298/

Atentos saludos,

MATÍAS NEGRETE

Director Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica