Oxford Energy Day 2026 – Towards resilient energy systems: research, policy and practice

Thursday 17 Sep 2026Mathematical Institute

This year’s Oxford Energy Day will take place on Thursday 17th September 8.30am – 7pm.

Mathematical Institute
Andrew Wiles Building Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford OX2 6GG

The theme for this year’s Oxford Energy Day is:

Towards resilient energy systems: research, policy and practice

Improving energy system resilience is essential at a time of fossil fuel price shocks, rapid socio-technical change and increased dependence on electricity in multiple critical infrastructures. From advances in individual technologies, to whole systems modelling and socio-political analysis, Oxford Energy Day offers a range of insights on increasing the resilience of our evolving energy systems. Resilience will be considered in terms of the ability of an energy system to anticipate, absorb, recover from, and adapt to disruptions, and we also ask resilience to what, over which timescales, and from whose perspective?

Themes explored by our speakers and poster presenters will include:

Technologies for resilience: batteries & storage, new materials, renewable energy generation, energy efficiency, information systems, control
Economics for resilience: market design, innovation, business opportunities
Resilience and energy security: electrification, demand reduction, diversification, the role of fossil fuels
Organising for resilience: data flows, governance, government & policy
Resilience for whom?: business, community and household perspectives
Resilience and the natural environment: future climates, risks, systems & feedbacks

Parallel session 1: Resilience & technologies; economics; energy security

Parallel session 2: Organising for resilience, resilience for whom? natural environment

Registration

Registration is now OPEN for the 14th Oxford Energy Day

Expressions of interest for the poster competition are now closed.

Programme details

Presenters, Panellists and Speakers

Irene Tracey CBE, FRS, FMedSci | Speaker
University of Oxford
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Tina Fawcett | Chair
University of Oxford
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Paul Shearing | Chair
University of Oxford
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Deborah Greaves | Speaker
University of Oxford
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Ji-Seon Kim | Speaker
University of Oxford
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Cassie Etter-Wenzel | Speaker
University of Oxford
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Donal Brown | Speaker
University of Oxford
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Jesus Lizana | Speaker
University of Oxford
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Alison Smith | Speaker
University of Oxford
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Andre Cabrera Serrenho | Speaker
University of Cambridge
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Sandy Arbuthnott | Speaker
Octopus Energy
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Phil Grunewald | Panellist
University of Oxford
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Ludmilla Steier | Chair
University of Oxford
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Nakita K Noel | Speaker
University of Oxford
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Ji-Seon Kim | Speaker
University of Oxford
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