1、Adoption of new energy technologies:impacts and incentivesVladimiro Miranda,IEEE FellowPresident of INESC P&D Brasil,BrazilDirector of INESC TEC,Portugal2Impacts in green city developmentGoing greener in cities has impacts in life quality but cities must be have planned infrastructures to be able to
2、 allow smooth transitions otherwise,we will be faced with the costs of repressed demand.One important infrastructure is the energy(electricity supply)system/network/grid.No green transition without more electricityInvestment is needed in anticipation to attend growing demand and changing patterns of
3、 consumption and self/distributed generation.How to predict?How to assess the impacts of technology transitions?how to predict and evaluate them?When cities go green,the skies go blue3Innovation generates change that generates innovationThe transformations we are witnessing and hopefully discussing.
4、distributed renewables smart grids electric vehicles battery storage hydrogen.result from innovation.To socially accommodate these transformations,it is necessary to understand the phenomena and to be able to predict them-to promote appropriate regulatory and political decisions.For good understandi
5、ng:innovation is necessary also in the models themselves that look at innovation.a matter of cultureCulture of innovationEstablishing a culture of knowledge-based innovation calls upon more actors than the classic ones,including the media and cultural and political agents.4Cities fully infra-structu
6、red are a fertile field for innovationCore fibre-optics city network of PortoCommunication and sensing nodesApps allowing volunteer collection of data Monitirong heart condition of drivers5A pervasive technical infrastructure allows innovation to pop-upMonitirong heart condition of driversDriver sma