Working Session: Electricity Generation—Transforming the Grid to Achieve Drawdown (Option 2 of 4)

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Moderators
Name
Chris Giebink
Titles and Affiliations
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Penn State
Project Drawdown Senior Fellow
Name
João Pedro Gouveia
Titles and Affiliations
Senior Fellow, Project Drawdown
Discussants
Name
Richard Adams
Titles and Affiliations
Office Director, Innovation, Partnering, and Outreach, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Name
Marilyn Brown
Titles and Affiliations
Regents' and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems, Georgia Tech
Name
Andreas Kuhlmann
Titles and Affiliations
Chief Executive, Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena), German Energy Agency
Name
Shashank Priya
Titles and Affiliations
Associate Vice President for Research, Penn State
Name
Leigh Winfrey
Titles and Affiliations
Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering, Penn State
Innovation Talk Presenters
Name
Marla Perez Lugo
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Professor of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
Name
Ryan Kushner
Titles and Affiliations
Author of "Accelerate This!"
Online Moderator
Name
Celina Scott-Buechler
Note Taker
Name
Dharma Santos-Santiago

Electricity Generation sector examines solutions that decrease carbon emissions using renewable energy and other enabling technologies. Drawdown solutions in this sector take advantage of the diversity of energy resources available in different world regions. Some energy supplies are utility-scale and require industry and agency support (solar farms, nuclear, offshore wind, wave, and tidal), while decentralized technologies such as rooftop solar, biogas, or micro-wind can be implemented by individuals, businesses, and communities. Additional solutions that enable transitions to zero or negative carbon electricity by 2050 include energy storage, grid flexibility, and microgrids.

Related Conference Themes
Electricity Generation