Track: Electric Power Systems:
---------- Engineering, Economics, and Policy
Minitrack: Sustainable Electric Energy Systems

Session 1: Systems Integration Aspects Related to Sustainable Electricity Production, Distribution, and End Use
It is imperative that new means for the production, transmission, and use of electricity be developed to address climate change, resource depletion, and energy security. Frequently, solving one of these issues results in greater problems in the other areas. This session will focus on new technologies - both incremental and transformative - that can substantively change the means of providing and using energy. Some of these technologies can include advanced economic energy storage systems and technologies interfacing transportation and electricity, such as plug-in hybrid vehicles. Additional presentations can address life-cycle issues associated with the deployment of renewable technologies. Lastly, this session should include analyses and commentary on impacts associated with the integration of small scale and distributed technologies into markets and systems operations., such as microgrids and demand response technologies.

Session 2: Policies for Sustainable Energy Deployment and Integration
The session will focus on public policies that may lead to the coordination among institutions as well as the integration of production and storage facilities that will be necessary to attain a sustainable future for energy (particularly electricity) production and utilization. The session will explore how policies can impact not only federal RD&D funding, but also how private sector industries might respond to these policies and how these policies might affect the awareness of sustainability issues by the general public. Issues such as subsidies needed to make the transition to a more sustainable energy system could be discussed. While much of this could be linked to climate change and National energy security issues, there are other aspects of sustainability that go beyond these concerns. The focus will be on how institutions (utilities, developers, investors, industry, and the general public) can, with the proper policies, work together and on the necessary integration of technologies (conventional, renewable, storage, transmission and distribution).

Minitrack Chair:
Robert J. Thomas
School of Electrical Engineering
Cornell University
428 Phillips Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
Phone: +1-607-255-5083
Fax: +1-607-255-8871
Email: rjt1@cornell.edu

Session Organizer and Chair:
Systems Integration Aspects Related to Sustainable Electricity Production, Distribution, and End Use
Terry Surles

Policies for Sustainable Energy Deployment and Integration
Fernando Alvarado