PEDES 2026 at IIT Guwahati - Ehab El-Sadaany Keynote

Keynote Title - From Pollution to Possibility: Powering a Cleaner, Smarter Future

Abstract: Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions demand a fundamental transformation of how we generate, manage, and consume energy. This keynote explores renewable energy integration and transportation electrification as complementary pathways toward cleaner air, reduced emissions, and a sustainable energy future. The rapid growth of wind, solar, and distributed energy resources offers significant opportunities for decarbonization, while their stochastic nature creates challenges for power-system planning, operation, control, protection, stability, and reliability. The keynote highlights the role of smart grids, dynamic microgrids, advanced control and protection, and flexible distributed generation in addressing these challenges. It further examines the transition to electric transportation, emphasizing the importance of clean electricity generation, intelligent charging infrastructure, advanced energy management, and grid-interactive technologies such as vehicle-to-grid. Ultimately, cleaner skies require more than individual technologies. They demand integrated energy and transportation systems, sustained innovation and investment, supportive policies, and coordinated action to build a cleaner, smarter, and more resilient future.

Bio: Prof. Ehab F. El-Saadany is the Dean of Engineering and Physical Sciences and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Khalifa University. He is an IEEE Fellow for his contributions in distributed generation planning, operation and control. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1986 and 1990, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1998, where he was a Professor with the ECE Department till 2019, where he was the Director of the Power MEng program between 2010 and 2015. He is also the founding Director of the Advanced Power and Energy Center at Khalifa University (2018-2022).

An Internationally recognized expert in the area of sustainable energy integration and smart distribution systems, Dr. El-Saadany’s research interests include smart grid operation and control, microgrids, self-healing, cyber-physical security of smart grids, protection, power quality, embedded generation and transportation electrification. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.

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