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banquet on Wednesday night. There
will be the traditional stream of three
to four parallel technical sessions
running throughout the conference
from Monday to Thursday to accom-
modate a range of topic genres. Addi-
tionally, two specific subjects will be
subjected to an end-to-end examina-
tion in a stream of scheduled events.
Each stream begins with an invited
two-sides-of-the-coin plenary session,
which will be followed by a series of
detailed technical papers on the sub-
ject of the plenary. This, in turn, will
be followed by a facilitated workshop/
forum devoted to the same subject.
One subject will be the status of lith-
ium-ion batteries and advanced lead
acid batteries, and whether either is
ready to supplant the incumbent tech-
nology. The other topic will be design
options for data-center cooling plants.
The program is still being devel-
oped as of this writing, but there will
be a choice of four or more Sunday
tutorials and approximately 130 pa-
pers and posters presented, through-
out the week. There will be a parallel
exhibition, with more than 50 exhibi-
tors anticipated. In a change from pre-
vious years, the exhibition will open
on Monday afternoon and remain open
throughout the conference; the exhibi-
tion space will be a focus of delegate
gatherings. There will be a welcome re-
ception on Sunday evening, an exhibi-
tor's reception on Monday evening, and
a conference banquet on Wednesday
night. With a very favorable exchange
rate and magnificent venue and loca-
tion, organizers hope that more than
700 people will attend the conference.
by Deepak Divan and Braham Ferreira
IEEE Power Electronics Society
"Light Up a Billion Smiles" Workshop
P
roviding sustainable access to
modern electricity for the
1 billion people at the bottom
of the pyramid is one of the biggest
challenges of our time. As a result of
heroic efforts by small and large com-
panies, nongovernmental organiza-
tions (NGOs), agencies, and charitable
organizations, around 44 million
small-scale solar lanterns and appli-
ances have been deployed globally
[1]. This still leaves more than three
billion people worldwide living in off-
grid and poor-grid environments, peo-
ple who live in energy poverty and are
denied the opportunity to improve
their lives. It is clear that more of the
same is not the answer-new strate-
gies are required to scale deployment
by almost a hundredfold. The IEEE
Power Electronics Society (PELS)
organized a workshop in Atlanta,
Georgia, on 10 November 2016 to
look at current global efforts in this
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sector and identify possible new
solutions that could scale to a billion
end users.
Over 50 invited attendees repre-
sented all major players in the sector,
including leaders and representatives
from the World Bank Group, interna-
tional aid organizations, industry as-
sociations, Fortune 500 companies,
start-ups, universities, and various
other private firms representing a
cross section of the stakeholders in
this ecosystem. The workshop con-
sisted of several distinguished key-
note presentations to set the context.
Key presenters included
■■Malcolm Cosgrove-Davies (Figure 1),
global lead for energy access at
World Bank Group
■■Christine Martin, senior advisor,
United States Agency for Interna-
tional Development
■■Juan de Bedout, chief technical offi-
cer, GE Energy Connections
■■Matt Jordan, program manager,
CLASP, Global Off-Grid Lighting
Association (GOGLA)
z September 2017
■■Bill
Malcolm, regional director,
CleanTech Open
■■Bai Blyden, mentor, IEEE Smart
Village
■■Vlatko Vlatkovic, global technology
leader, GE Global Research
■■David Wellner, senior director of
corporate strategy, Equifax Inc.
■■Mark Dudzinski, chief marketing
officer, Light the World
■■Frank Sharp, senior technical leader,
Electric Power Research Institute.
It was followed by three parallel
breakout sessions featuring cross-
disciplinary expertise in each group.
The groups all worked to identify the
hardest problems restricting elec-
tricity access for the bottom of the
pyramid (Figure 2). Areas addressed
included technology constraints, busi-
ness models, financing, social drivers,
regulatory concerns, and supply-chain
issues. The following key areas were
addressed at the workshop and an
overarching consensus was reached:
■■Photovoltaic/battery/light-emitting
diode technologies with exponentially
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