Micro combined heat and power plant in your kitchen ● 10 GW of solar arrays in northern Africa providing electricity to Europe ● A wind powered supergrid big enough to smooth out intermittencies ● Coal/biomass combinations that create "negative emissions"● Hybrid plug in cars that you charge up at night with wind-generated electricity that might otherwise go to waste ● Small nuclear plants for developing countries ● Mini hydro at the bottom of your garden
What lies ahead for power generation technology and what techniques are available to help us think about the energy future more effectively?
At Future Power we plan to address these questions by bringing together a group of distinguished speakers with a diverse range of views, representing a wide spectrum of power generation options, as well as practitioners in the field of "futures studies", with the aim of encouraging informed debate and the sharing of knowledge and expertise.
The goal: to look at practical experience gained in the area of futures studies and how we can use it to set about identifying runners and potential winners in the rapidly evolving power generation technology field.
The target audience: managers and strategic planners in the power generation business, including generating companies and equipment suppliers, project developers, investors, policymakers and all those interested in power sector market trends.
The topics: energy modelling, forecasting and futurology; successes and failures in the prediction business; strategic roadmapping, tools and practicalities; utility, supplier and project decision-making case studies; identifying impending energy gaps and appropriate responses; optimising the fuel mix for the longer term; prioritising research and development. We hope you will join us for these two days and be both informed and challenged as we look to the future! "For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." African Proverb
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