PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP:
Understanding The Key Drivers to Making Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(PHEV) and Vehicle to Grids (V2G) a Success in Asia
Course Highlights
Promoting New Technologies
- Justification for government intervention and public policy
- A brief history of the social barriers to other new energy systems
- Reviewing EVs and their past barriers
Key Trends and Drivers Pushing Alternatives to Petroleum
- Drivers pushing alternatives to oil and petroleum
- How EVs and PHEVs fit into a portfolio of alternative options
Conceptualizing Electric Vehicles: Looking at the benefits and
barriers from PHEVs to V2Gs
- The economic and environmental benefits of PHEVs/V2G (including benefits
to utilities and consumers)
- The social and technical barriers to PHEVs/V2G
Understanding Public Policies for Greater PHEV/V2G use
- Understanding the need to co-develop infrastructure alongside EV
distribution
- Advances in battery technology and its impact on EV development in Asia
- Types of modern public policy support
 Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool is Assistant Professor
at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
NUS. Benjamin has worked as a researcher,
professor, and consultant on issues pertaining
to energy policy, the environment, and science
and technology policy.
His research interests are in science and technology studies, with
an emphasis on the barriers to new and innovative energy systems.
He has worked in advisory and research capacities at the U.S. National
Science Foundation’s Electric Power Networks Efficiency and Security
Program, Virginia Tech Consortium on Energy Restructuring, Virginia
Center for Coal and Energy Research, New York State Energy Research
and Development Authority, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Semiconductor Materials and Equipment International, and U.S.
Department of Energy’s Climate Change Technology Program.
He is the co-editor with Marilyn A. Brown of Energy and American
Society: Thirteen Myths (2007) and the author of The Dirty Energy
Dilemma: What’s Blocking Clean Power in the United States (2008).
He is also a frequent contributor to such journals as Electricity
Journal, Energy & Environment, and Energy Policy.
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