2017 UCGES Programs

Day One
September 11, 2017 (Monday)

2017 US-China Green Energy Summit

(13 speakers)

Venue: Shangri-La hotel, 9 Binjiang Dong Road, Chengdu, 610021, China

8:00 - 8:20am Registration and Photograph
  Moderators:
  • Xiaofeng Zhang, Executive Vice President, US-China Green Energy Council
  • Professor Yonghua Song, Executive Vice President, Zhejiang University; Vice President, China Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE)
8:20 am
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9:50 am

Opening Remarks:

  • Video: Robert Wu, Chairman, Robert Larson, President, US-China Green Energy Council
  • Video, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Founding Chair, R20 Regions of Climate Action
  • Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council
  • Sichuan Government
  • Cyrus Habib, Vice Governor of Washington State, USA (invited)
  • Baosen Zheng, President, Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE)
  • Heping Xie, President, Sichuan University, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
  • Professor Rong Zeng, President, EIRI, Tsinghua University
  • Professor Ruijin Liao, Vice President, Chongqing University
9:50 am
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12:00 am

Keynote Speakers

  • Steven Chu, Nobel Prize Laureate, Former US Secretary of Energy(confirmed)
  • Professor Xiaoxin Zhou, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Honorary President of China Electric Power Research Institute (confirmed)
  • Professor James Sweeney, Director of the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, Professor of  Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University; Senior follow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics (confirmed)
  • Professor Dan Kammen, Director of Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), University of California, Berkeley (confirmed)
  • Professor Jiankun He, Deputy Director of China National Expert Committee on Climate Change, Former Executive Vice-President of Tsinghua University.
  • Professor Dinghuan Shi, Counselor of China State Council & Chairman, China Renewable Energy Society (confirmed)
12:00am - 1:20pm Lunch Break

2017 US China Green Energy Roundtable Forum

(Four Roundtable Forums, 80 speakers, 8 moderators)

Time: 1:20 pm to 6:00 pm
Venue: Shangri-La hotel, 9 Binjiang Dong Road, Chengdu, 610021, China

1:20 - 1:30pm

Registration
 1:30 pm
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3:30 pm

Roundtable Forum 1 [Conference room 1, Two Hours]

➤ Renewable Energy and Energy Internet

Moderators:

  • Professor Junyong Liu, School of Electrical Engineering and Information, Sichuan University
  • Dr. Jeffrey Chapman, President and Co-founder,  EnDimensions LLC;
1:30 pm
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3:30 pm

Roundtable Forum 2 [Conference room 2, Two Hours]

➤ Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management.

Moderators: 

  • Yi Liu,  Vice Dean, EIRI Sichuan, Tsinghua University
  • Dr. George Zhou , VP, UCGEC
3:30 - 4:00pm Tea Break
4:00 pm
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6:00 pm

Roundtable Forum 3 [Conference room 1, Two Hours]

➤ New Energy Vehicles and Electricity Markets

Moderators:

  • Dr. Zhiqian Bo, Chief Expert of Xuji Group, State Grid Corp. of  China
  • Dr. Shanshan Liu, SVP, UCGEC

4:00 pm
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6:00 pm

Roundtable Forum 4 [Conference room 2, Two Hours]

➤ Innovation and Future City, Venture Investments and Entrepreneurs

Moderators:

  • Dr. Feng Gao, Executive  Vice Dean, EIRI, Tsinghua University
  • Dr. James Caldwell, Member of the BOD, UCGEC
6:00 - 8:00pm Dinner [Main Dining Hall]

 

Day Two
September 12, 2017 (Tuesday)

2017 OHTC Open Remarks

Time:   9:30 am to 11:30 am
Venue: Shangri-La hotel, 9 Binjiang Dong Road, Chengdu, 610021, China

  • Mrs. Qiu, Director, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council
  • Mr. Li Yin, Governor of Sichuan Province

Keynote Speech:

  • Professor Steven Chu, Nobel Prize Laureate, Former US Secretary of Energy

 2017 US-China Green Energy Summit

(Keynote Session and Four Panels, 26 speakers, 10 moderators)

Time: 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Venue: Shangri-La hotel, 9 Binjiang Dong Road, Chengdu, 610021, China

 
Conference Panel Sessions
1:30 pm
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2:30 pm

Keynote Session—Leader Dialogue: (60 min.)

Moderators:

  • Jeffrey Ball, Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance;
  • Xiaofeng Zhang, Executive Vice President, US-China Green Energy Council

Panelists

  • Steven Chu, Nobel Prize Laureate, Former US Secretary of Energy
  • Heping Xie, President, Sichuan University, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
  • James Sweeney, Director of the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
  • Dan Kammen, Director of Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), University of California, Berkeley
  • Rong Zeng, President, EIRI, Tsinghua University
  • Dinghuan Shi, Counselor of China State Council & Chairman, China Renewable Energy Society
  • Hongguang Jin, Academician of Chinese Academy of  Sciences.
2:40 pm
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4:10 pm

Panel Session 1 (90 min.)

Energy Transition in Generation: Power Grid Operation with high share of  Renewable Energy

Moderators:

  • Jeffrey Ball, Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance
  • Dr. Ruomei Li, Senior Consultant, Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering

Panelists:

  • Professor Hongguang Jin, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • Professor Xu Cai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Dr. Paul McEntire, Chairman, Palo Alto Advisors, USA
  • Scott McHugo, Sr. Product Manager, Sun Power, USA
  • Haiwei Xiao, Vice General Manager, Sunwoda Energy Solutions Co., Ltd
2:40 pm
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4:10 pm

Panel Session 2 (90 min.)

➤ Energy Transition in Transmission and Distribution- Energy Internet and Energy Markets

Moderators:

  • Professor Ruijin Liao, Vice President, Chongqing University
  • Dr. Qixin Chen, Vice Dean,  EIRI Sichuan, Tsinghua University

Panelists:

  • Dr. Xuzhu Dong, Vice President, China Southern Electric Power Research Institute, China Southern Grid (CSG)
  • Dr. Jeffrey Chapman, President and Co-founder, EnDimensions LLC, USA
  • Professor Junyong Liu, School of Electrical Engineering and Information, Sichuan University
  • Yunhui Chen, Vice President, Sichuan Electric Power Company, State Grid
  • Professor Fushuan Wen, Director of Power Economics and information, Zhejiang University
4:10 - 4:30pm Break time: 20 min
4:30 pm
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6:00 pm

Panel Session 3 (90 min.)

Energy Transition in Consumption- New Energy Vehicles, Storage and Demand Side Management

Moderators:

  • Professor Yonghua Song, Executive Vice President, Zhejiang University;
  • Professor Qi Huang, Dean, School of Energy Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Panelists: 

  • Bill Howe, Program Manager, Power Quality, Electric Power Research Institute Inc., USA
  • Professor Ming Zeng, North China Electric Power University
  • Professor Hongjie Jia, School of Electrical Automation and Information Engineering, Tianjin University   
  • Dr. Lin Jin, CEO, Ontech Electric

4:00 pm
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6:00 pm

Panel Session 4 (90 min.)

➤ Energy Transition via Information Technologies- Internet of Things (IoT), Technology Innovation, Future City,etc.

Moderators:

  • Dr. Mike Zhang, Member of the BOD, US-China Green Energy Council
  • Professor Daniel Schwartz, Clean Energy Institute, Boeing-Sutter Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, USA

Panelists:

  • Professor Edison Tse, Director of the Asia Center in Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University.
  • Patrick Burt, Mayor, Palo Alto, CA, USA (invited)
  • Professor Guangning Wu, Southwest Jiaotong University.
  • Dr. James Caldwell, Member of the BOD, UCGEC
6:30 - 8:30pm Dinner

 

Day Three
September 13, 2017 (Wednesday)

Leave hotel at 8:30 am to “Tian Fu New development Zone”

Visit and tour campus of Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute, Tsinghua University

Tian Fu Energy Innovation Forum

9:20-9:30am Registration
9:30 am
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9:40 am

Moderator:

  • Dr. Feng Gao, Executive Vice President, EIRI, Tsinghua University

Open Remarks:

  • Professor Wensheng Gao, Executive Vice President, EIRI Sichuan, Tsinghua University
9:40 am
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10:10 am

Forum 1 【Half hour】

➤ Energy Efficiency and Electric Power Market

Professor James Sweeney, Director of the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University

10:10 am
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10:30 am

Forum 2 (One hour)

➤ Renewable Energy, New Energy Vehicles, Storage and Demand Side Management

Professor Dan Kammen, Director of Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), University of California, Berkeley

10:30 am
-
12:00 pm

Forum 2 【One and Half hours,Invitation Only, Chinese Language】

➤ Innovation and Entrepreneurs

Professor Edison Tse, Director of the Asia Center in Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University.

Extra Charge : $500
Register Link :
http://2017ucges913.eventbrite.com

10:30 am
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12:00 pm

Forum 3 【One and Half hour】

➤ Energy Efficiency and Electric Power Market

2:00-4:0 pm Tour “Tian Fu New development Zone”