Presented
by
Affordable
Energy
for
Humanity
During
his
lecture,
Dr.
Claudio
Vergara
will
present
the
work
being
carried
out
at
MIT
to
support
the
expansion
of
access
to
electricity
in
the
developing
world.
In
collaboration
with
Comillas
University
in
Spain,
researchers
from
MIT’s
Tata
Center
for
Technology
and
Design
are
partnering
with
Organizations
such
as
the
Enel
Foundation,
Iberdrola,
the
World
Bank,
and
the
German
and
Belgian
International
Cooperation
Agencies
to
create
impactful
solutions
to
energy
access
Issues.
Vergara
will
discuss
the
following
activities
and
discuss
how
they
relate
to
each
other
and
their
particular
research-to-impact
approaches:
•
The
Reference
Electrification
Model:
large-scale
high-detail
rural
electrification
design
&
its
application
in
India,
Rwanda,
Kenya,
Peru,
Uganda,
and
Colombia
•
Remote
sensing
and
inference
•
Energy
use
monitoring
and
appliance
utilization
inference
•
Power
electronics
and
decentralized
energy
management
for
low-power
dc
microgrids
•
Modeling
of
energy
management
strategies
for
microgrids
•
Regulatory
analysis
for
electrification
processes
•
Grid-compatible
microgrids
Dr.
Claudio
Vergara
is
a
Chilean
electrical
engineer,
currently
a
Postdoctoral
Associate
at
the
MIT
Energy
Initiative.
He
obtained
his
PhD
in
2015
from
Porto
University,
with
extended
stays
at
MIT
and
Comillas
University,
with
a
dissertation
on
models
for
electrochemical
storage
in
power
systems.
As
a
researcher
at
the
Universidad
de
Chile,
he
was
the
lead
developer
of
one
of
the
first
fully-featured
isolated
microgrids
in
2010
in
the
Atacama
Desert.
Since
2012
his
research
has
focused
on
the
determination
of
the
value
of
distributed
energy
resources
for
both
modern
power
systems
such
as
the
large
interconnected
grids
in
Europe
and
North
America,
as
well
as
the
incipient
ones
emerging
from
the
expansion
of
access
to
electricity.
Vergara also teaches courses on simulation and decision-support models for electric power systems offered by MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems and Society.