Keynote Address: Energy, the grid and receding horizon optimal control

From a sustainability point of view the electrification of transport, in particular when electrical energy could be supplied from purely renewable primary sources, seems a very logical way forward. We briefly consider the world scale implications of such a convergence, observing its technical feasibility but also noting the sine qua non condition: a need for global world scale international collaboration. Indeed many nations simply do not have the renewable energy resource in their own right, but the collective, the planet, does.