13th Oxford Energy Day – Energy & Data: Opportunities and Challenges for the Energy Transition

Event was on Wednesday 24 Sep 2025

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Programme details

September 24, 2025Morning session

08.00 – 09.00

The British Institute of Energy Economics (BIEE) will be hosting their two-day Research Conference at Worcester College 23 to 24 September. As part of the day two programme, POWERful Women will host an interactive EDI breakfast session on 24 September. Delegates attending the Oxford Energy Day 2025 are welcome to join this breakfast session at Worcester College to engage in the session and network with BIEE delegates. If you’d like to join this breakfast session, please register now.

9.30 – 10.30: Registration, refreshments, networking

10.30 – 10.45: Introduction to the day

Professor Jim Naismith,  Professor Paul Shearing and Dr Tina Fawcett –  University of Oxford.

10:45-12:45:  Plenary speakers

  • Professor Jan Rosenow, University of Oxford: Data: A turbocharger for the energy transition
  • Dr David Joffe, DESNZ: The crucial roles for data in achieving Clean Power 2030
  • Dr Jack Kelly, Open Fix Climate: Accelerating progress in applying AI to the energy transition
  • Juliette Sanders, Energy UK: From data to decarbonisation: AI’s role in the future of energy

 

Poster session and lunch

12.45 – 14.00 Lunch, poster session, networking

Parallel Session 1 - Science and Engineering - Chair Dr Ludmilla Steier

14.00 – 15.40

  • Dr Thomas Neuenhahn, Siemens Energy: Integrating data and despatchability: Siemens Energy’s roadmap to net zero power
  • Dr Enzo Liotti, Department of Materials, University of Oxford: Artificial Intelligence X-ray imaging for sustainable materials
  • Dr Sarah Sparrow, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford: NetDRIVE: A community approach for sustainable digital research infrastructure
  • Professor David Wallom, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford: Resilience, reliability & security in a distributed energy system
  • Rebecca Neill, Hygen: Low-carbon hydrogen

Parallel Session 2 - Social Science and Multidisciplinary - Chair Dr Marina Topouzi

14.00 – 15.40

  • Councillor Anna Railton, Oxford City Council: Energy, data and local government
  • Felippa Amanta, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford: Beyond data centres: Rethinking energy impacts of AI
  • Professor Rajat Gupta, Oxford Brookes University: National research hub on net zero, health and extreme heat
  • Professor Gavin Killip, Nottingham Trent University: Developing a sector skills plan for housing decarbonisation
  • Robin Morris, Department of Materials, University of Oxford: Data insights from community energy

Tea break

15.40 – 16.10

Final Plenary Session

16.10 – 17.00

Chair Paul Shearing. Panel members: Dr Radhika Khosla, Dr Ludmilla Steier, Dr Marina Topouzi: Panel discussion on the day’s highlights

Paul Spence and Malte Jansen: Key highlights from the BIEE conference held in Oxford on 23rd and 24th September 2025

Poster competition winners’ presentation.

Poster session and drinks reception

17.00 – 18.30

Presenters, Panellists and Speakers

Programme & delegates

Please download a PDF of the full programme including the list of delegates attending.

Download programme - PDF (7.48 MB)

Posters

Name Affiliation Poster title Download file
Ewan Archer-Brown University of Oxford Identifying key governance challenges for the decarbonisation of residential heating in the UK: Stakeholder perspectives Download poster (567.23 KB)
Matthew Wright University of Oxford State of the climate for the UK energy sector report 2024-25 Download poster (407.69 KB)
Marcel Seger University of Oxford From data to decision: Optimising electric vehicle workplace charging Download poster (1.17 MB)
Antoine Donne Univeristy Paris Dauphine-PSL From bytes to watts: Is law enabling the sharing of data in support of the energy transition? Download poster (54.32 KB)
Narindra Ralefomanana University of Antanananrivo Carbon tax policy and renewable energy investment in Madagascar: A socio-economic and institutional analysis Download poster (448.26 KB)
Sophie Kueffner Institute for Economy and the Environment From data to direction: Tracking the local energy transition progress through a composite index Download poster (505.89 KB)
Felippa Amanta - Winner - Most promising research for the energy transition University of Oxford The overlooked climate risks of artificial intelligence Download poster (2.26 MB)
Hanbit Lee Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Agent based model for low carbon technology adoption: A case study of Lausanne, Switzerland Download poster (280.06 KB)
Kristian Strommen University of Oxford Balancing informativity and predictability in forecasts of electricity demand Download poster (2.24 MB)
Madara Premawardhana University of Buckingham Photovoltaic digital twins using game engine simulations Download poster (2.96 MB)
Weijia Yang University of Oxford Grid resilience in a warming climate: Wildfire risk management through distributed renewables Download poster (3.49 MB)
Cassandra Etter-Wenzel University of Oxford Do energy assistance policies reduce energy poverty? Evidence from the UK, US and Germany Download poster (536.06 KB)
Leandra Scharnhorst - Winner - Visual design University of Oxford Between policy and practice: Emerging lessons on personal carbon trading at the household level Download poster (1.23 MB)
Marin Vuksic University of Oxford MAX phases: Embracing fire and radiation Download poster (3.11 MB)
Yan Yu University of Oxford Rethinking climate investment targets: From static funding gaps to data driven dynamic modelling Download poster (2.75 MB)
Huong Hoang University College Dublin Can multinational enterprises be energy transition intermediaries? Download poster (379.83 KB)
Lorenzo Matthias Bucheri University of Luxembourg LetzPower! Designing for impact: How data can drive dynamic tariff adoption Download poster (722.33 KB)
Rebecca Perriment - Winner - Communication of data University of Oxford Understanding long term energy use in off grid solar home systems in sub-Saharan Africa Download poster (994.01 KB)
Aaron Omar Colina-Calvo National University of Engineering The 2050 Peruvian calculator (PeCAL2050) Download poster (1.19 MB)
Laurence Peinturier University of Oxford Are today's net zero retrofits ready for tomorrow's climate? Download poster (4.20 MB)
Katya Soegiharto University of Oxford Are we ready to scale residential demand response globally? Download poster (387.49 KB)
Joshua Lilly University of Oxford Utilising multi-modal spectroscopy to probe detrimental charge carrier recombination via retaining trap states in CsPbBr3 Download poster (1.45 MB)
Carl Somers University College London Reliable wind power forecasts with conformal prediction Download poster (444.17 KB)
Yekatherina Bobrova University of Oxford Energy wast triad: Conceptual framework and literature review Download poster (1.25 MB)

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