Power Electronics

About the seminar

UK targets for reducing carbon emissions are well documented, governments worldwide are looking at ways of creating a low carbon society, a low carbon economy. Legally binding targets dictate that the UK must produce at least an 80 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with projected cuts of 18% on 2008 levels by 2020.

Power electronics are an essential technology for ensuring the success of all future technological low carbon projects since it is the only technology that can deliver efficient and flexible conversion and conditioning of electrical energy.

The move to a low carbon economy presents challenges and opportunities across a wide range of business sectors. Power Electronics are a powerful enabler for low carbon technologies and energy saving measures aiding:
 

• Connection of renewable energy sources to power grids
• Offshore generation
• Increasing network capacity
• Integrated power management
• Power supplies
• Motor drives
• Lighting
• Transport
• Energy Storage

Power electronics must demonstrate they are able to initially match and seek to better existing technologies for efficiency and reliability whilst also ensuring a Low through-life cost. Furthermore there is a need for devices to operate at high levels of effective output whilst taking up as little physical space as possible.

It is strongly felt and openly recognised that through a mixture of expertise and knowledge drawn from manufacturing and academia, the UK is hugely capable of tackling the challenges of building and maintaining a power electronics-enabled low-carbon future. Through this there is opportunity for the UK to capitalise on the business benefits and secure a reputation and standing as a world leader in innovative power electronic enabled systems.

See also

• Sponsorship opportunities