Power Electronics Europe February/March 2022

20 PCIM EUROPE 2022 www.pcim-europe.com Issue 1 2022 Power Electronics Europe www.power-mag.com PCIM Europe 2022 – Analog And/Or Digital The power electronics community can come together (live) again in Nuremberg from 10 – 12 May 2022. This year, the PCIM Europe will be complemented by a digital offering. Exhibitors, visitors, attendees and speakers can also network, learn about the latest industry trends and expand their knowledge on the digital event platform as part of the hybrid event concept. The on-site event in Nuremberg is accompanied digitally beforehand, in parallel and afterwards. By linking the digital and analog worlds, organizer Mesago aims to create a holistic event experience that provides insight and exchange and offers all event participants around the world the chance to join the power electronics community. Like every year, trend topics of the industry will be addressed on specific exhibition areas. One of the highlights will be the Batteries & More - Energy Storage Pavilion. The demand for stable energy storage systems is growing constantly. Power electronics as the heart of a stationary energy storage system plays an important role here. With the Batteries & More - Energy Storage Pavilion, a special platform for presentations and professional exchange will be dedicated to this topic. A special focus will be on the application area of “Batteries”. Suppliers of power electronics, who are in the product group “Power Quality and Energy Storage”, will be presenting as part of the joint stand and Industry Forum. The Industry Forum is a platform for lectures, presentations and panel discussions on research and development topics. Here energy storage will also feature as a topic in the conference program. Conference program Over 300 lecture and poster presentations have been selected out of the vast amount of submitted papers. The conference program offers keynotes at the beginning of each conference day, special sessions and a range of user-oriented seminars and tutorials on the two days prior to the conference. Keynotes The first keynote on the Tuesday covers “Hydrogen – Key Element to Achieve Net Zero CO 2 ” by Jürgen Rechberger, AVL List, Austria. The energy transition to a net zero CO 2 society is widely recognized as a monumental challenge. Austria is in the preferred condition to have already a renewable energy production of 70 % but only related to electricity. If the complete primary energy demand is considered, only about 30 % are from renewable resources (incl. biogenic and geothermal). For all developed countries around the world, mobility and industry are the main challenges for decarbonization. AVL has created a study for energy end-use in a fully decarbonized energy scenario towards 2050. In this scenario, the electricity consumption will more than double compared to 2019 levels. This electricity demand can not be met by locally harvested renewables and as today Austria will stay an energy importer. In an optimistic scenario for energy import hydrogen could be available for as low as 2 € /kg (equivalent to 6 cent( € )/kWh). In such a scenario hydrogen production will be a key technology for decarbonization. AVL is since 2002 heavily involved in hydrogen technologies development from PEM stacks and systems for automotive, marine, rail and aviation applications to SOFC power-generation solutions to hydrogen production technologies based on PEM and Solid Oxide electrolysis. Various of these developments will be shown, together with industry trends and the role of hydrogen in the future mobility & energy system. The second keynote on the Wednesday morning is entitled “Power Electronics for a Future Sustainable Society” to be presented by Ichiro Omura, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. Fifty years after ‘The Limits to Growth’ the famous report from the Club of Rome, we are now forced to recognize ‘the dimensions of our finite planet’ in terms of CO 2 emissions. In this presentation, he will explore the critical boundary in the relationship between economic growth and CO 2 emissions by introducing simple model, and recognize the gap between the net zero emission scenario and the current situation. He will then discuss the role that power electronics technology development should play in bridging this gap. Ichiro Omura Jürgen Rechberger