Presented by: Lou Figueira - Director, Structuring & Commercial at Canadian Solar, Inc., also a Lehigh Alum who is currently located in Australia.
Register below for the next installment of the Energy Systems Engineering Spring 2022 Seminar Series: The Janak Raj Lectures.

DATE: MONDAY, April 25, 2022
TIME: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
LOCATION - Zoom MEETING link to be sent prior to the seminar date
CONTACT US: inesei@lehigh.edu 

ABSTRACT:
The Paris Climate Accords in 2015 concluded that green-house gas emissions (GHG) emitted by human activities—operating electric power plants, driving vehicles and certain manufacturing processes—must be decarbonized by 2050 to maintain average temperatures no more than 1.5O  of pre-industrial figures. However, in the past 5 years, the world has fallen well short of their interim targets. Australia appears to have shown how it can be achieved, and the example of South Australia shows why there can be reason for optimism. For example in 2020, SA demonstrated that 60% of the annual demand was met by wind and solar energy backed by long-duration storage.
This talk will focus on how rapid decrease in the price of solar and wind coupled with innovative energy policies have laid the foundation for how Australia plans to achieve net zero by 2050.


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You acknowledge that by attending the ESE Energy Seminar Series, you will abide by the rules as detailed:
- Unless specifically requested by the speaker, all questions will be deferred to the end of the talk.
- The Director or a designee will moderate the post-talk discussion, (questions and comments should be relevant to subject in discussion).
- Students will be given first preference in the Q&A session.

Please write to ras816@lehigh.edu if you have further questions.