Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Zhe Chen
Leader of Wind Power Research Program,
CEng, Fellow IET, Fellow IEEE
Aalborg University, Denmark

Biography: Zhe Chen received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Northeast China Institute of Electric Power Engineering, China, in 1982, 1986 respectively, the Ph.D. degree in Power and Control, from University of Durham, England, in 1997.
Dr Chen has been a Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark since 2002. He is the Danish Principle Investigator for Wind Energy of Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC). The leader of Wind Power System Research program at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University.
Professor Chen’s main current research interests are wind energy and modern energy systems. He has led and participated many international and national research projects. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IET (London, U.K.) and a Chartered Engineer in the U.K.

Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Alberto Borghetti
Fellow IEEE
University of Bologna, Italy

Biography: Alberto Borghetti is a Professor of Electrical Power Systems at the Electric Power Systems Laboratory.
His research focuses on power system analysis, dynamic behavior of power stations and electric power systems, decision support tools for power producers in a competitive electricity market, coordination of surge protection particularly against the effects of lightning, automatic fault location in medium voltage distribution networks, power quality improvements in distribution networks, analysis and control of distribution systems with embedded generation from renewable sources and of microgrids.
He has authored more than 150 publications in various journals, monographs, proceedings of national and international conferences. He is co-author of 6 brochures of CIGRÉ (International Council on Large Electric Systems), on protection of medium voltage and low voltage networks against lightning, lightning parameters for engineering applications, modelling and aggregation of loads in flexible power networks, evaluation of lightning shielding analysis methods for EHV and UHV DC and AC transmission lines. He is co-author of IEEE Standard 1410 - "IEEE Guide for improving the lightning performance of electric power overhead distribution lines".
He is IEEE Fellow for contributions to modeling of power distribution systems under transient conditions. He is receipient of the ICLP Scientific Committee Award 2016 and the 2018 CIGRE Technical Council Award for Study Committee C4.
From the beginning of 2019 he is serving as Editor in Chief of Electrical Engineering - Archiv für Elektrotechnik, published by Springer. From 2010 to 2016 he served as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Since 2018 he serves as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Since 2018 he serves as an Associate Editor of "Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE)", SGEPRI Press and Springer. Since 2008 he is a member of the "Editorial Advisory Panel" of "Electric Power Systems Research", published by Elsevier.

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Vladimiro Miranda
Fellow IEEE
INESC TEC and University of Porto, Portugal and INESC P&D Brasil， Brazil

Biography: Vladimiro Miranda is Full Professor (Catedrático) of the University of Porto. He is an IEEE Fellow (USA) since 2006, recipient of the IEEE PES Renewable Energy Excellence Award 2014 and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
He is President of INESC P&D Brasil, Brazil and Associate Director of INESC TEC, Portugal. He is also Scientific Advisor for: IRESEN, Ministry of Energy, Government of Morocco; Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (Madrid), Spain; Instituto de Energía Eléctrica (San Juan), Argentina; Laboratory for Biologic and Chemical Defense of the Portuguese Army; Hydrographic Institute of the Portuguese Navy.

Besides responsible for many international projects in Europe and the USA, he has served in the Board of start-up companies generated by INESC TEC. He is author or co-author of many scientific publications in the most relevant journals in Power Systems.

Keynote Speaker IV

Prof. Yuanzhang Sun
Chang Jiang Scholars
Wuhan University, China

Biography: He got his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in June, 1988. Before joined in Wuhan University in 2010, he was a full professor with Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University. He severed as Associate Director (2006-2010) of State Key Laboratory of Power System Control and Dynamic, Tsinghua University, and Dean (2010-2013) of School of Electrical Engineering, Wuhan University. He was a Specially Appointed Professor of “Chang Jiang Scholars Program” (2000-2005) organized by Chinese Ministry of Education. He was supported by NNSF of China for Distinguished Young Scholar in 1999 and Oversea Cooperation Funds for Young Scholar in 2000. He was the Chief Scientist of two major programs supported by NNSF, with total funds more than 3 million dollars. He was Expert Member and Assistant Chief Scientist of Major State Basic Research Development Program (973) “Basic Research on Improving Reliability of Large Interconnected Power System”. He was the PI of the world’s first wide-area damping control project which is practically on operation in Guizhou power grid of China. He is an internationally recognized expert who advocates using heavily energy-computation industrial loads to accommodate wind power. He received National Natural Science Awards of China in 2008. Prof. Sun has published over 150 peer-reviewed academic papers and eight monographs in Chinese or English.

Keynote Speaker V

Prof. Dennis Leung
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Title: Development and current status of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) Technologies
Abstract: Global warming and climate change concerns have triggered global efforts to reduce the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is considered a crucial strategy for meeting CO2 emission reduction targets. In this talk, various aspects of CCUS are reviewed and discussed including the state of the art technologies for CO2 capture, separation, transport, usage, storage, and life cycle analysis. The selection of specific CO2 capture technology heavily depends on the type of CO2 generating plant and fuel used. Among those CO2 separation processes, absorption is the most mature and commonly adopted due to its higher efficiency and lower cost. Pipeline is considered to be the most viable solution for large volume of CO2 transport. Among those geological formations for CO2 storage, enhanced oil recovery is mature and has been practiced for many years but its economic viability for anthropogenic sources needs to be demonstrated. There are growing interests in CO2 storage in saline aquifers due to their enormous potential storage capacity and several projects are in the pipeline for demonstration of its viability. There are multiple hurdles to CCUS deployment including the absence of a clear business case for CCUS investment and the absence of robust economic incentives to support the additional high capital and operating costs of the whole CCUS process. Lastly, the challenges and prospects of various carbon mediation measures, and their current status will be discussed.

Biography: Dennis Y.C. Leung received his BEng (1982) and PhD (1988) from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. He had worked with the Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. for five years heading the air pollution section of the company before joining the University of Hong Kong in 1993. Professor Leung is now a full professor and associate head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering specializing in environmental pollution control and renewable & clean energy development. He has published more than 420 articles in this area including 260+ peer reviewed top SCI journal papers. His current h-index is 60 and total citations are more than 16000. He is one of the top 1% highly cited scientists in the world in energy field since 2010 (Essential Science Indicators) and named as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2017 and 2018. Prof. Leung has delivered more than 60 keynote and invited speeches in many conferences as well as public lectures.