EcoGen 2010 is set to be the clean energy event of the year, bringing together the highest levels of the clean energy industry, locally and internationally.
Keith Lovegrove will be speaking during a solar session from 11–12:30 on Day Three of EcoGen 2010, 8 September.
Associate Professor Keith Lovegrove has 23 year of experience in solar thermal energy research, combined with 15 years of teaching experience in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in energy systems and systems engineering.
He is the lead inventor and design and construction team leader of the recently completed 500m2 (world's largest) Generation II Big Dish solar concentrator at the Australian National University, which was recognised with a Light Weight Structures Association of Australia design award in 2009.
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He has authored or co-authored two book chapters, 100 research papers and 29 engineering technical reports and has been an invited/plenary speaker at 25 conferences. He has had a long involvement with The Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society – a section of the International Solar Energy Society – serving as Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer and Chair of the 2006 conference committee.
As Chair, he initiated the annual Sustainable House Day. He has represented Australia as IEA Solar PACES Solar Chemistry task representative over many years.
Outside of direct research and teaching activities, he is a Member of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, Expert Working Group on Climate Energy and Water Links, and is a member of the ACT Climate Change Business Academic Roundtable.
In 2002, Dr Lovegrove was a member of the Australian Federal Government’s Renewable Energy Industry Implementation Group, and during 2007 he advised the Australian federal Office of Chief Scientist on a solar thermal power briefing to the Prime Minister. He also contributes extensively to media interviews on renewable energy.
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