The usage of electricity is increasing day by day to meet our growing
energy demands. Large part of it comes from technologies based on
exhaustible & polluting fossil fuels like coal, gas etc. It
is desired that share of clean, green, renewable and non-hazardous
sources is increased to make our planet safe and inhabitable for
its flower and fauna. Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and Solar cells
are two such technologies having potentials of providing efficient
lighting and electricity from renewable & inexhaustible source.
LEDs and solar cells are closely related technologies and are in
fact complementary to each other. One converts electricity to light
while other converts light into electricity. LED street lightings
sourced through photovoltaic systems are widely used. However, present
usage of these technologies in overall electricity consumption is
quite small. One of the important factors of its small share is
high cost. Further research & development are required to make
these technologies more efficient and affordable. Further innovations
and investments in industry are desired to produce materials, develop
processes and systems at lower cost & high numbers as to get
benefit of economy of scale. Also, there is need to increase the
general awareness of masses of long life, efficient LED lighting
& PV systems for long run benefits. To address these issues,
an International Conference on Energy Efficient LED Lighting
and Solar Photovoltaic Systems is being organized at IIT
Kanpur jointly by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Institution
of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers Kanpur Center.
AT IITK, we have been doing research and development in both the
technologies, LED Lighting & SPV. Besides R&D, IIT Kanpur
has organized in past the National Conference on the Emerging Trends
in the Photovoltaic Energy Generation and Utilization (NCETPEGU)
in 27-29 March 2008, International Symposium on Photovoltaic Science
& Technology (ISPST) on 13 Jan 2010 and a Seminar on Micro-solar
Energy Generation & Utilization from 3-5 Sep 2011. These conferences/symposium/seminars
have been quite successful in bringing together academics, scientists,
industrialists on the same platform and providing students platform
to present their work. We hope that the present international conference
too will be tremendous success.
The present international conference will have format of tutorials
on LED & PV systems by eminent experts, invited talks, oral,
poster paper presentations, panel discussion, working model contest
and exhibition of products. The conference is open to academics,
universities, research establishments, industry and other interested
ones having stakes in these technologies. The students will be awarded
for their best performances in poster papers and working models.
