Seminar Details
2014-05-20 (14.00) : The Global Grid
At Euler building
Organized by Mathematical Engineering
Speaker :
Damien Ernst (ULg)
Abstract :
In this talk, Damien Ernst will discuss the future of our electricity networks. He will explain through simple but rigorous
arguments that in the near future, the race for renewable energy will cause the interconnection of electricity grids of
the planet. They will form one single electrical grid - called The Global Grid - linking together the vast majority of
consumers and electricity producers in the world.
With The Global Grid, the electrical commodity will be exchanged internationally as it is the case now with oil or coal.
Professor Ernst will also address the dangers associated with the globalization of the electric commodity, and the many
challenges that Belgium and its electric industry will face in this global context.