Workshop: Sustainable Energy Development: A case for US and Africa; held in Nairobi, Kenya on August 12-16, 2011.

美国和非洲都在积极讨论电力部门的几个积极项目，以实现可持续发展。根据事实证明是成功的可再生能源，对电气化项目的评估特别有意义。它帮助确保负担得起、可获得和可持续的能源需求，以改善保健服务、交通、金融、供水和人力资源能力建设。在发展中国家，可以从发展项目失败或不可持续的原因中吸取一些教训。其中一些原因包括缺乏实现多种目标的框架，这些目标包括使项目的目标与可持续发展保持一致，缺乏对项目启动过程中不确定因素的影响的了解，以及缺乏适当的协调和管理。其他因素包括缺乏先进的系统工程工具来应对不确定性和决策。这些因素是美国和非洲可持续发展和能源研讨会需要解决的主要问题。拟议中的研讨会的学术价值将包括：1.发展能源相关项目的适当框架，以便我们能够保证可持续发展？2.如何在可再生资源的建模中纳入适当的不确定性。开发或评估先进的分析工具，以考虑可再生能源发展项目中的多个目标、不确定性和变异性，并以可持续性发布为目标。教育和研究需要什么，以确保能源和其他相关工程项目的成功框架是成功和可持续的。通过ICPSOP内的研讨会提出的建议将包括来自美国和非洲的专家，他们将根据与其国家相关的案例研究提出他们的观点作为例子。知识优势：该提案旨在举办一个为期4天的讲习班，讨论设计和开发以可再生能源为基础的电气化项目的战略，这将导致实现项目目标和可持续发展，包括各种形式的不确定性。本次研讨会将邀请系统工程、电力系统和经济、能源市场和定价方面的专家参加。通过研究工作和最佳实践，参与者将提供案例研究，并就如何前瞻性地处理不确定性问题提出解决方案和建议，以实现电气工程项目发展的可持续性。利用计算智能开发了能够利用变异性模型处理远见和可再生能源资源的工具。此外，研讨会还将介绍与可再生能源转换和加工相关的存储技术和逆变技术的研究需求和挑战。这一领域的专家将发挥催化作用，确保实现研讨会的目标。更广泛的影响将包括：1.研讨会的目的是加深对为什么基于目标不一致的发展可能导致工程项目失败的基本理解。研讨会的成果将以美国和非洲的案例研究为例，回答如何发展能力、研究和教育专题的问题。将讨论利用可再生能源促进发展在技术演变中实现强有力的转变的方法。讲习班还将作为一个论坛，根据参与国的概况和地理位置介绍最佳做法。此外，还将突出每个国家的可再生能源商业潜力。研究和开发组合将在会议上向利益相关者展示。研讨会结果将发表在IEEE期刊和会议记录上。

Several active projects in the electricity sector are actively discussed both in the U.S. and Africa towards achieving sustainable development. The assessment of electrification projects is of particular interest based on renewable energy which has proven to be successful. It has helped to assure affordable, accessible and sustainable energy requirements to improve health delivery, transportation, finance, water and human capacity building. In developing countries, several lessons can be learned on why development project failed or unsustainable. Some of the reasons include the lack of framework to meet multiple objectives that include alignment of objectives of the projects with sustainable development, the lack of understanding of the impact of uncertainties during project take-off and lack of proper coordination and management. Other factors include lack of advanced system engineering tools to account for uncertainties and decision making. These factors are the major concerns to be addressed in the workshop on sustainable development and energy for the US and Africa.The intellectual merits of the proposed Workshop will include:1. What is an appropriate framework for developing energy related project so that we can guarantee sustainable development?2. How to incorporate appropriate uncertainties in modeling of renewable resources.3. Development or evaluation of advanced tools for analysis, to account for multiple objectives, uncertainties and variability in renewable energy development project with the sustainability issued as an objectives.4. What education and research needs are to be in place to ensure a successful frame work for energy and other related engineering projects are successful and sustainable. The proposal through the workshop within ICPSOP will include experts from the US and Africa to present their viewpoints based on case studies relevant to their countries as examples. Intellectual Merits: The proposal is aimed at developing a 4-day workshop to address strategies for designing and developing electrification project based on renewable energy which will lead to meeting project goals and sustainable development including various form of uncertainties. This workshop will engage experts in system engineering, power system and economics, energy market and pricing. Through research work, and best practices, participants will provide case studies, and propose solution and recommendation on how to deal with issues of uncertainty with foresight for sustainability in achieving electrical engineering projects development. The use of computational intelligence has developed tools with capability to handle foresight and renewable energy resources with model of variability. In additional, storage technology and inverter technology research needs and challenges related to renewable energy conversion and processing will also be given at the workshop. The experts in this area will provide a catalytic role to ensure the goals of the workshop are met.The broader impacts will include:1. The workshop is aimed at developing fundamental understanding of why development based on non - alignment of objectives may result in the failure of engineering projects. The outcome of the workshop will provide answers to questions of how to develop capacity, research and educational topics with sample case studies from the US and Africa.2. The methodology to achieve robust transformation in technology evolution using renewable energy for development will be discussed. The workshop will also serve as a forum for presentation of best practices based on participating countries profile and geographical location. In addition the potential for business of renewable energy resources (RER) in each of the countries will be highlighted. Research and development portfolio will be presented for stakeholders at the conference. The outcome of the results of the workshop will be published in IEEE journal and proceedings.