报告题目：Energy Innovation Highlights: Progress & Emerging Challenges
报 告 人：Gürkan Kumbaroğlu（土耳其海峡大学）
报告时间：2026年10月28日（星期三）下午2:30—4:30
报告地点：大学城B5栋副楼三楼会议室
主办单位：材料科学与工程学院
报告摘要：
Successful energy innovations can have profound economic and social outcomes, impacting industrial competitiveness, trade, environmental health, infrastructure investment and security. The International Energy Agency (IEA) maintains a database that contains information for over 600 technology entries across the whole energy system. Recently, over 150 significant energy innovation highlights were identified. From the various highlights emerges a picture of intrepid effort and progress, mixed with various valiant struggles to take the next steps up to larger scales. However, large-scale first-of-a-kind projects need to overcome a range of non-technical challenges related to finance, business models, public support, safety standards, connection to energy infrastructure, tariff design and offtake contracts.
The IEA further carried out a comprehensive assessment of progress and emerging challenges in energy technology innovation drawing on highlights and a survey of practitioners across more than 40 countries. The survey provides insight into trends in public and corporate R&D spending, venture capital flows, patenting and policy, progress in energy innovation. The list of energy technology areas provided in the survey includes energy efficiency, energy storage and batteries, new approaches to heavy industry, hydrogen and fuel cells, nuclear and CCUS, power and grids, renewables and transport. This talk summarizes the most recent findings of the IEA energy innovation highlights, provides a global snapshot of the frontrunners and emerging challenges.
报告人简介：
Gürkan Kumbaroğlu holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Türkiye. He is Professor of Industrial Engineering at Boğaziçi University, Türkiye. He is President of the Turkish Association for Energy Economics and Past President of the International Association for Energy Economics IAEE. Professor Kumbaroğlu is Editorial Board member of The Energy Journal, IAEE’s flagship publication. He was awarded the Energy Oscar Award for Scientific Contribution to Energy Markets in 2011. He has received the Senior International Scientist Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012.