PPGEP-UFPE receives Professor Love Ekenberg, from University of Stockholm

The Graduate Program in Management  Engineering (PPGEP) receives Professor Love Ekenberg, University of Stockholm, Sweden. Prof. Ekenberg will give a lecture entitled “A multi-stakeholder approach to energy transition” on May 24, 2019, at CTG’s Niate Auditorium, at 3pm.

Love Ekenberg has a PhD in Computer and Systems Sciences as well as a PhD in Mathematics from Stockholm University. He is also professor in Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University and holds a UNESCO Chair at the same university, as well as an ICDE Chair. He has been working with various aspects of risk and decision analysis for a number of years and is former adviser to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Centre International de Deminage Humanitaire Geneve, and member of the Swedish advisory group to the UN ICT Task Force, WHO, World Bank and others. He has extensive experience of project management in large national and international IT projects and is the author of around 250 scholarly articles and books and has been a member of numerous journal editorial boards and program committees. He also has extensive practical experience working within various industrial and public sectors, such as regional planning, public decision making as well as risk modeling and analyses.

Title: A multi-stakeholder approach to energy transition

Summary: Energy transition towards a more significant share of domestically generated resources will inevitably lead to a societal transformation, which will affect the interests of existing and emerging electricity generation industries and other stakeholders. To be sustainable, such a transition should also address issues of environmental protection and contribution to socio-economic development. A reasonable assumption is that human factors play an important role in energy transition. These human factors include perceptions of different risks connected with technological deployment, as well as views about benefits and impacts generated by different technologies. I will present a multi-stakeholder multi-criteria approach to assess the relevance of Jordan’s electricity generation technologies against a set of criteria under uncertainty, which reflect environmental, social and economic components of sustainable development. The results show that the discourse in the Jordanian society is currently dominated by economic rationality, such as electricity costs, supported by concerns about safety during operation and maintenance of electricity generation power plants. The results also show the strong desire of all stakeholder groups to have an opportunity to engage in decision-making processes on energy transition rather than purely to compensate local communities for the installation of electricity generation and transmission technologies.