The Darnell Energy Summit to be held September 23 to 25, 2014 in Richmond, VA will combine the Power Forum, Greenbuilding Power Forum, and the Smart Grid Electronics Forum. This year’s keynote, on “Smart Materials Enhance Efficiency of Building, Micro Grid, and Alternative Energy Systems,” will be presented by Mary Doswell, Senior Vice President — Retail and Alternative Energy Solutions, at Dominion Power. It will be followed by presentations from thought leaders across North America and Europe. Topics will range from smart materials for energy harvesting to next-generation materials for power semiconductors to micro grids and the smart grid.
Plenary Session 1 on the morning of September 23 will include 1.1, A review of Energy Harvesting Materials and Techniques, Dr. Karla Mossi, Graduate Program Director, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University; 1.2, GaAs Powering Forward, Bob Conner, CEO, Founder, Sarda Technologies; 1.3, GaN Transistors – Giving New Life to Moore’s Law, Alex Lidow, CEO, Efficient Power Conversion Corporation; and 1.4, Aluminum-Nitride for High-Voltage Power Electronics, Baxter Moody, Director of Device Development, HexaTech.
Plenary Session 2 will follow in the afternoon and will include 2.1, Silicon-Carbide Power Electronics for Energy Applications: Perspectives, Targets, and the path to Applications through European Union SPEED Project Dr. Daniel Fernández, CTO of INAEL Electrical Systems and coordinator of EU project SPEED; 2.2, European Union DCC+G (DC Components +Grid) Project, an Update, Bernd Wunder, Fraunhofer Institute and BJ Sonnenberg, Emerson Network Power; and 2.3, Smart Grid 2.0: The Energy Internet, Alex Huang, Progress Energy, Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University.
The 2014 Darnell’s Energy Summit (DES '14) will span the entire range of new technologies for next-generation power and energy system solutions. It will include discussions of SiC, GaN, GaAs, composites, ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, and other advanced/smart materials. The application focus will be broad and will include power conversion, motion control, energy harvesting, energy storage, micro grids, wireless power, smart systems, thermal management, and more. DES '14 will be a combined event featuring the Eleventh Darnell Power Forum (DPF '14) plus the Sixth Green Building Power Forum (GBPF '14) plus the Fifth Smart Grid Electronics Forum (SGEF '14).
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