b'22 Member News March 2020Working towards a sustainable planetThe 8th International Conference on Renewable Power Generation (RPG 2019) hosted in ChinaRPG 2019 took place in October in Shanghai,co-organised with Shanghai Jiao Tong University.The annual event is one of thediversification needs and pollutionideas covering the scope of wind most successful internationalconcerns, and is shifting to emergingtechnology, PV (photovoltaic systems) conferences that we host. The 2019markets like China. Talks were deliveredsystem technology, grid integration event brought together 450 world- by leading academics and researchersand technology, policy and market leading researchers, academics,who spoke about electrical grids, theoptions for power systems.industry and business leaders toInternet of Things (IoT) and the future meet and share the most advancedof renewable power generation. information, technologies and latestPapers from the RPG conference are research results in the renewableThe RPG event offers an opportunity foravailable on the IET Digital Library.power generation sector. researchers to present a wide variety of topics; in 2019 the conferenceRPG 2020 will be hostedThe rapid growth of renewables isfeatured 185 oral presentations andin Dublin, Ireland in September:being driven by higher power demand,246 posters. Researchers presentedtheiet.org/rpg2020GeoengineeringIn case Pop-culture is filled with examples of climate-engineering attempts going of emergency, break glass wrong, Hollywood blockbuster films like Geostorm, Snowpiercer, and even Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs The climate is changinghardly a week goes by without hearing ofhighlight our collective fear new catastrophic heatwave world-records and glaciers melting atthat intentionally altering the unprecedented rates.Lately the climates doomsday clock seems toclimate could make things worse. As relatable as these have gone from inching closer to midnight to positively leaping andsignposts in the zeitgeist are, bounding to the finish. additional reticence from policy makers and some climate All is not lost though; a smalldiscussed by universities,scientists comes from the number of researchers havecouncils and governmentsso-called Moral Hazardthe been working on ways to directlycan broadly fit into twovery notion that there are engineer the climate withcategoriesCarbon Dioxideother ways to preserve the the goal to offset or possiblyRemoval (CDR), directlyclimate could reduce countries even completely reversingremoving carbon dioxideembrace of Carbon Pricing.anthropogenic climate change.from the environment via On 27 April an IET EngTalkvarious methods, and SolarIf you or someone youwill be shining a spotlightRadiation Management (SRM),know is interested in on this nascent, powerful,a collection of proposedfinding out more about this and already controversial,techniques designed tomultifaceted and quickly engineering discipline. prevent sunlight fromdeveloping topic, please Its called Geoengineering andtransferring as much energyregister for free at:the myriad techniques beingto the environment. theiet.org/engtalks'