Deepak Divan, EBL Global Steering Chair 

Presentations from EBL-I teams:

Chetan Singh Solanki - Team SouLS and Olusegun Odunalya - Team Havenhill 

Deepak Divan is Professor, John E Pippin Chair, GRA Eminent Scholar, and  

Director of the Center for Distributed Energy at the Georgia Institute of  

Technology in Atlanta, GA. His research is in power electronics, power  

systems, smart grids, and distributed control of power systems. He works  

with utilities, industry and is involved in research, teaching, entrepreneurship  

and starting new ventures. 

Dr. Divan has founded or seeded several new ventures including Soft  

Switching Technologies, Innovolt, Varentec and Smart Wires, which together  

have raised >$160M in venture funding. Dr. Divan is an elected Member of the  

US National Academy of Engineering, member of the National Academies  

Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, a Fellow of the IEEE, past  

President of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, and is a recipient of the IEEE  

William E Newell Field Medal and was Global Chair of the first Empower a  

Billion Lives global competition. He has 40 years of academic and industrial  

experience, 75 issued and pending patents, and over 400 refereed  

publications. He received his B. Tech from IIT Kanpur, and his M.S. and Ph.D.  

degrees from the University of Calgary, Canada.

Moderator: Nana Nuamoah Asamoah-Manu - IFC Panelists: Divyam Nagpal - IRENA, 

Nishant Narayan - SEforALL, 

Suleiman Babamanu - Nigerian Rural Electrification Agency 

On behalf of the IEEE PELS Energy Access and Empower a Billion Lives Global Steering Committee, it is our honor to  welcome you to the 2021 Virtual Workshop on Energy Access and Empower a Billion Lives II, hosted by the IEEE  Power Electronics Society and IEEE TV. The Workshop on Energy Access provides a platform for bringing together a  diverse community dedicated to solving the challenges posed by equitable energy access.  

Our aim is to improve the understanding of the needs and capabilities of various stakeholders, continuing the  dialogue on collaboration, and exploring ways to expand the global Energy Access community, and strengthen  collaboration among stakeholders. 

This Workshop is also announcing the launch of IEEE PELS Empower a Billion Lives II (EBL) Global Competition to  accelerate energy access for nearly three billions people who still live with extreme energy poverty. The goal of this  competition is to crowdsource holistic and scalable solutions that will be effective in providing energy access to  communities that have no access to energy services and live below the global poverty level. This competition will  build off the success of Empower a Billion Lives I and take input from prior EBL I teams and the Energy Access  community in crafting the next competition.  

A special thank you to all the panelists and partners and a hearty thanks to the IEEE volunteers and staff for their  dedicated work and to IEEE Power Electronics Society as the workshop sponsor.

Moderator: Silard Liptak, Agsol 

Panelists: Nick Singh - ESKOM, 

Makena Ireri - CLASP, 

Claudio Shawawreh - Solaris Off-Grid

On behalf of the IEEE PELS Energy Access and Empower a Billion Lives Global Steering Committee, it is our honor to  welcome you to the 2021 Virtual Workshop on Energy Access and Empower a Billion Lives II, hosted by the IEEE  Power Electronics Society and IEEE TV. The Workshop on Energy Access provides a platform for bringing together a  diverse community dedicated to solving the challenges posed by equitable energy access.  

Our aim is to improve the understanding of the needs and capabilities of various stakeholders, continuing the  dialogue on collaboration, and exploring ways to expand the global Energy Access community, and strengthen  collaboration among stakeholders. 

This Workshop is also announcing the launch of IEEE PELS Empower a Billion Lives II (EBL) Global Competition to  accelerate energy access for nearly three billions people who still live with extreme energy poverty. The goal of this  competition is to crowdsource holistic and scalable solutions that will be effective in providing energy access to  communities that have no access to energy services and live below the global poverty level. This competition will  build off the success of Empower a Billion Lives I and take input from prior EBL I teams and the Energy Access  community in crafting the next competition.  

A special thank you to all the panelists and partners and a hearty thanks to the IEEE volunteers and staff for their  dedicated work and to IEEE Power Electronics Society as the workshop sponsor.

Moderator: Jelena Popovic, EBL Vice-Chair, University of Twente Panelists: Rajan Kapur - VP IEEE Smart Village, Larankelo Ventures, Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan Global Chair IEEE Humanitarian  Activities 

Lwanga Herbert - IEEE SIGHT Chair, Logel Science Foundation, Anuradha Annaswamy, Past-President IEEE Control Systems Society 

On behalf of the IEEE PELS Energy Access and Empower a Billion Lives Global Steering Committee, it is our honor to  welcome you to the 2021 Virtual Workshop on Energy Access and Empower a Billion Lives II, hosted by the IEEE  Power Electronics Society and IEEE TV. The Workshop on Energy Access provides a platform for bringing together a  diverse community dedicated to solving the challenges posed by equitable energy access.  

Our aim is to improve the understanding of the needs and capabilities of various stakeholders, continuing the  dialogue on collaboration, and exploring ways to expand the global Energy Access community, and strengthen  collaboration among stakeholders. 

This Workshop is also announcing the launch of IEEE PELS Empower a Billion Lives II (EBL) Global Competition to  accelerate energy access for nearly three billions people who still live with extreme energy poverty. The goal of this  competition is to crowdsource holistic and scalable solutions that will be effective in providing energy access to  communities that have no access to energy services and live below the global poverty level. This competition will  build off the success of Empower a Billion Lives I and take input from prior EBL I teams and the Energy Access  community in crafting the next competition.  

A special thank you to all the panelists and partners and a hearty thanks to the IEEE volunteers and staff for their  dedicated work and to IEEE Power Electronics Society as the workshop sponsor. 

Moderator: Issa Batarseh, EBL Vice-Chair, UCF 

Presenters: Olivier Jacquet, Schneider Electric 

Bill Nussey, Freeing Energy 

On behalf of the IEEE PELS Energy Access and Empower a Billion Lives Global Steering Committee, it is our honor to  welcome you to the 2021 Virtual Workshop on Energy Access and Empower a Billion Lives II, hosted by the IEEE  Power Electronics Society and IEEE TV. The Workshop on Energy Access provides a platform for bringing together a  diverse community dedicated to solving the challenges posed by equitable energy access.  

Our aim is to improve the understanding of the needs and capabilities of various stakeholders, continuing the  dialogue on collaboration, and exploring ways to expand the global Energy Access community, and strengthen  collaboration among stakeholders. 

This Workshop is also announcing the launch of IEEE PELS Empower a Billion Lives II (EBL) Global Competition to  accelerate energy access for nearly three billions people who still live with extreme energy poverty. The goal of this  competition is to crowdsource holistic and scalable solutions that will be effective in providing energy access to  communities that have no access to energy services and live below the global poverty level. This competition will  build off the success of Empower a Billion Lives I and take input from prior EBL I teams and the Energy Access  community in crafting the next competition.  

A special thank you to all the panelists and partners and a hearty thanks to the IEEE volunteers and staff for their  dedicated work and to IEEE Power Electronics Society as the workshop sponsor.

Moderator: Deepak Divan, EBL Global Steering Chair Panelists: Ali Husain - On Semiconductor, 

Richard Mori - EBL I Team Xpower, Meshpower, 

Nana Nuamoah Asamoah-Manu, IFC, 

Silard Liptak, EBL I Project Manager, Agsol

On behalf of the IEEE PELS Energy Access and Empower a Billion Lives Global Steering Committee, it is our honor to  welcome you to the 2021 Virtual Workshop on Energy Access and Empower a Billion Lives II, hosted by the IEEE  Power Electronics Society and IEEE TV. The Workshop on Energy Access provides a platform for bringing together a  diverse community dedicated to solving the challenges posed by equitable energy access.  

Our aim is to improve the understanding of the needs and capabilities of various stakeholders, continuing the  dialogue on collaboration, and exploring ways to expand the global Energy Access community, and strengthen  collaboration among stakeholders. 

This Workshop is also announcing the launch of IEEE PELS Empower a Billion Lives II (EBL) Global Competition to  accelerate energy access for nearly three billions people who still live with extreme energy poverty. The goal of this  competition is to crowdsource holistic and scalable solutions that will be effective in providing energy access to  communities that have no access to energy services and live below the global poverty level. This competition will  build off the success of Empower a Billion Lives I and take input from prior EBL I teams and the Energy Access  community in crafting the next competition.  

A special thank you to all the panelists and partners and a hearty thanks to the IEEE volunteers and staff for their  dedicated work and to IEEE Power Electronics Society as the workshop sponsor.