Alessandro Massi Pavan is the Delegate of the Rector for Sustainability and Energy Transition and Coordinator of the Giacomo Ciamician Interdepartmental Center for Energy, Environment and Transport at the University of Trieste, Italy. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and serves as Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Program in Engineering for the Energy Transition at the Department of Engineering. His research and teaching activities focus on energy systems, photovoltaic technologies, electric mobility, energy storage systems, and smart grids.
Lecture: Alternative and renewable energy technologies
Alessandro will introduce the renewable technologies that today represent the way for addressing the most pressing global challenges of this century including sustainable economic and social development, poverty eradication, food production and security, health, climate protection, peace and security. An introduction to the main economic parameters involved in the installation of a power plant will also be given.
Lecture: The breakthrough of Photovoltaics
Alessandro will also introduce his vision on photovoltaics showing how this technology – that has recently reached one of the most important results in the electricity market: the realization of grid parity – represents today not only one of the keys for the clean generation of electricity but also the proof that renewables can guarantee in the future a big part of the energy that humanity will need.
Lecture: Electrical Storage Systems
With the rapid (r)evolution of the power sector from the centralized concept to the hybrid centralized-distributed one, the interest in energy storage systems is today growing exponentially. Electrochemical storage could play a pivotal role in future-low carbon electricity systems when renewables will be the main sources of electrical energy. The lecture will introduce the main applications and available technologies as well as a market perspective.