Young Scientist Lecture 3:00-4:00 PM July 27 (GMT+8:00)
Speaker: Rui Zhu
Title: Solar cities for energy transition facilitated by GIScience withmulti-sourced spatiotemporal big data
Speaker bio:
Rui Zhu, Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agencyfor Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore.
Dr. Zhu was a Research Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong PolytechnicUniversity and Postdoctoral Associate at MIT Senseable City Laboratory. Zhu has published more than 50 SCI papers related to solar energy. Zhu has served as a PI and Co-I for several research projects and Zhu is the Board of Director member in CPGIS. (Website: https://felix-rz.github.io/)
Abstract:
Promotingrenewable energy sources to reduce dependency on conventional fossil fuels is an effective way to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals on carbon neutrality. In this context, solar farminghas been experiencing explosive development in recent years. Compared with the utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) plants located at remote and bare lands with stable meteorological conditions, effectively harvesting solar energy in urban areas is challenging, such as intermittency, spatiotemporal heterogeneity,and energy storage complexity. In this talk,I will present the concept of a sustainable solar city with the development of six interactive modules to effectively penetrate solar energy into various urban systems. The concept will be implemented through estimating land surface solar irradiation, constructing 3D urban surfaces, modelling spatiotemporal solar potential distribution, planning solar PV systems, designing solar PV charging solutions, and revealing the socio-economic and environmental impacts of solar energy.
Time and date :
11:00-12:00 PM July 26 (GMT-8:00)
8:00-9:00 AM July 27 (GMT+1:00)
3:00-4:00 PM July 27 (GMT+8:00)
Zoom details:
The Zoom link is: https://shorturl.at/eKMR5
The Password is: 607897
Supporting institution:
Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC)
Paper link:
None