[E&E seminars] Monday - More Electricity for Less CO2 - Yves Bamberger

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  More electricity for less CO2

   Yves Bamberger

Scientific Advisor, EDF

Monday, February 14   4:00 PM   Room E19-319



 Abstract



Energy needs for all human beings, coupled with limited natural
resources, global warming, and energy independence, are pushing the
development of electricity. New uses on the customer/citizen side,
deployment of dispersed generation and storage, implementation of the
"smartgrids", building of new plants, change in the regulations: all
will deeply transform the electrical systems inherited from the 20th
century. The arrival of the Internet in the old electrical world will
change the value chain. In the developed countries, the cost of
electricity will generally increase, depending on the political and
regulatory choices. The presentation will try to show some of the
principal factors of this metamorphosis.



About the speaker



Yves Bamberger began his career in the research and development of
structural mechanics at the Central Laboratory of the Ponts et
Chaussées. At the same time, he taught at the "Ecole des Ponts et
Chaussées", where he was appointed Professor of Mechanics in 1973.



He was seconded to EDF at the end of 1980 to set up a department of
Numerical Mechanics and Models in the Studies and Research Division.
Then he was appointed successively as Head of the Computing and Applied
Mathematics Department, as General Secretary to the Computing and
Telecommunications Mission in charge of advising EDF and GDF Executive
committees in this areas, as Technical Director and Information Systems
Manager at the EDF Generation and Transmission Division.



In 1998, Yves Bamberger was asked to create a new division, putting
together all I.T. resources of EDF. In 2002, Bamberger was appointed as
Head of EDF R&D (2000 employees in France). Since April 2010, he has
served as the Scientific Advisor to EDF's Chairman and CEO. He is a
member of both the French Academy of Technologies and the French
Government Science and Technology Council, as well as the author of
five books in the area of Mechanics and Strength of Materials.





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