Nouredine HADJSAÎD

Keynote Speaker

Biography

Dr. Nouredine Hadjsaïd received PhD and the “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” degrees from Grenoble Institute of Technology in 1992 and 1998 respectively. He is presently a full professor at the Engineering and Management Institute of the University of Grenoble Alpes (UGA) - France.
He has directed the common academia-industry research center between EDF, Schneider Electric and G2Elab (IDEA: Inventer la Distribution Electric de l’Avenir) on smartgrids from 2001 to 2013. He is presently the General Director of the Electrical Engineering lab (G2Elab – CNRS/UGA), the Director of an ENEDIS Industrial chair of excellence on “Smartgrids”, the holder of an Artificial Intelligence chair with the MIAI Institute (Grenoble Institute on Artificial Intelligence), and the President of Scientific Council of Think SmartGrids France, the French industrial branch on SmartGrids.
At the international level, he served as the treasurer of IEEE Power Energy Society (elected worldwide), the vice-chair of IEEE IGETCC (Intelligent Grid and Emerging Technologies Coordination Committee), and the French representative at International Energy Agency for ISGAN-SIRFN Annex. He is presently serving as an IEEE PES VP New Initiatives and Outreach.
He was the general conference chair of IEEE PowerTech’2013 held in Grenoble-France and IEEE SG4SC (SmartGrids for SmartCities) held in Paris in 2016.
Dr. Hadjsaïd has published more than 300 scientific papers in international referred journals and conferences, and has authored/co-authored and directed 7 books about power engineering and Smartgrids.

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Intensified Electrification for Decarbonization: Paradigm Change, Perspectives, and Challenges

Nouredine HADJSAÎD

¹ Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP⋆, G2Elab, 38000 Grenoble, France

² Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore

Keywords: Intensified electrification, energy decarbonization, power grid transition, renewable energy sources, grid investment.

Energy sector in general and power systems in particular are considered as critical infrastructures for our modern societies. However, these infrastructures are expected to play an even critical role in the perspective of decarbonation for reaching the Carbon Neutrality by 2050 or even earlier. Indeed, the energy consumption in various economy sectors such as industry, buildings and transportation, is one of the main contributors for Green House Gas Emissions (about 70%). As such, decarbonizing the energy sector is a major step for fulfilling Carbon Neutrality targets. Hence, intensifying electrification of consumptions while shifting usages from fossil-based energy to electrical-based energy is one of the most efficient levers for decarbonizing the energy sector. This can be illustrated in transportation with plug-in Electric Vehicles, in Building where the combination of electrification, energy efficiency and renewable energy supply will offset almost to zero their CO2 emissions, and in the industry through process shifting.

In this perspective, reaching Carbon neutrality targets will require the electricity share in the final energy consumption to jump from 20-25% today to 50-60% by 2050. On the other hand, the necessity of interconnecting to the power grid massive renewable energy sources that are mostly intermittent in nature is significantly transforming the way these systems are designed, planned and operated while maintaining their resiliency. Given the short period of transition for this complex energy sector, this move is a considerable challenge for the power system that should be adapted quickly through massive investments, more intelligence and flexibility.

The presentation will focus on the challenges of decarbonization and its impact on power system transition but also on some emerging consequences and paradigm change in this critical sector.

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