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JOINT SEMINAR with Reliability Society:

Wind Power in a Carbon-Constrained World: Capacity Cost, and Environmental Impacts

NOTE: Dr. Keith's presentation is available HERE

Papers can be found at:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~keith/other.html
Papers related to wind and climate may be found at:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~keith/wind.html
A non-technical overview of the work is available at:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~keith/WindAndClimateNote.html
 

When: Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005 6:45 p.m for 7:15 p.m.
Location: Royal Canadian Air Force Mess   158 Gloucester, Ottawa.

Broad Target Audience: Technology Managers, Engineers, Technology Managers, Engineers, interested COP 11 participants, others interested in Green House Gas technology.

We also draw attention to Climate Change Technology Conference: 9-12 May 2006 at Ottawa Congress Centre  see http://www.ccc2006.ca

FREE to IEEE and IEE Members, IEEE Students & EiT* (Membership to IEEE available at www.ieee.org )

Member Registration: (No Cost) space is limited, registration required.

Non Member Registration: (Cost $10) Please register by 26 Sept 2005

Overview:

Wind power has come of age, with over 40 gigawatts of global capacity and annual equipment sales near $10 billion. While this growth rate is impressive, wind power currently supplies a trivial fraction of global energy needs.

Professor David Keith works near the interface between climate science, energy technology, and public policy. He will give a survey of the technical and economic feasibility of wind power in a carbon-constrained world, including the technology of wind turbines and the economics of integrating large-scale wind power into the electrical grid.

From an environmental standpoint, Professor Keith will offer his unique perspective on climatic impacts: wind power can alter local and global climate by extracting kinetic energy and by modifying turbulent transport in the atmospheric boundary layer, as well as more familiar issues arising from large-scale land use. These issues will be discussed, as will their impact on scientific and policy decision-making.

Professor Keith is a Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment, with cross-appointments to the Departments of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Economics at University of Calgary. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Much of his policy work is focused on capture and storage of CO2. He serves as Chair of a crosscutting group for a special report on CO2 storage for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and as member of the National Advisory Panel on Sustainable Energy Science and Technology.

Climate Change: A Scientific Perspective. In the eight years since the Kyoto Protocol was first introduced there has been a revolution in climate change science. This is not surprising given that the industrial world, including Canada, has spent around thirty billion dollars on climate research over the period. Canadian researchers have played a significant role in this climate science revolution (e.g. relative role of the hydrologic and carbon cycles, celestial climate drivers, greater understanding of natural climate variability, etc.). As the climate science changes, as it has over the past eight years, government policy must adapt as well.

BACKGROUND: Professor Keith hompage  http://www.ucalgary.ca/~keith/   

SURVOL:

L’énergie éolienne dans un monde dont les ressources en carbone sont limitées :
capacité, coûts et incidence sur l’environnement


L'énergie éolienne a fait du chemin, compte tenu de la capacité mondiale qui atteint plus de 40 gigawatts et de la vente d’équipement qui se chiffre à près de 10 milliards de dollars par année. Bien que son taux de croissance soit impressionnant, l’énergie éolienne ne répond qu’à une infime partie de l’ensemble des besoins mondiaux en égnergie.

Le champ d'activité de M. David Keith se situe à la croisée des sciences atmosphériques, de la technologie de l’énergie et des politiques publiques. Il effectuera une étude sur la faisabilité technique et économique du recours à l'énergie éolienne dans un monde dont les ressources en carbone sont limitées. Il se penchera entre autres sur la technologie des éoliennes et sur les aspects économiques liés à l’intégration de l’énergie éolienne à grande échelle dans le réseau électrique.

Dans le domaine de l'environnement, M. Keith offrira sa perspective unique sur les effets climatiques selon laquelle l'énergie éolienne peut modifier le climat mondial et local en extrayant l'énergie cinétique et en modifiant le transport par turbulence dans la couche limite planétaire. M. Keith se penchera également sur des questions plus connues découlant de l'utilisation du sol à grande échelle. Ces questions, ainsi que leur incidence sur la prise de décisions par les scientifiques et les décideurs, feront l’objet de discussions.

M. Keith est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l'énergie et l'environnement et enseigne au Département de génie chimique et pétrolier et au Département d’économique à l’University of Calgary. En outre, il est professeur auxiliaire à la Carnegie Mellon University. La majeure partie de son travail dans le domaine des politiques est axée sur la capture et le stockage du dioxyde de carbone (CO2). Il est président du comité multidisciplinaire du Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat (GIEC) chargé de rédiger un rapport spécial sur le stockage du CO2 pour ce dernier. Il siège également au Groupe consultatif national sur la stratégie scientifique et technologique relative à l'énergie durable.

 

 

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 * For additional information or to indicate Engineer in Transition (EiT*: anyone who is eligible to join IEEE and who is currently unemployed) please contact: John Grefford at Grefford@ieee.org , or call 613-839-1108.  You may become a member at www.ieee.org

 

 


(Modified:15 Sep 2005)