Cleantech/Energy Startups – prospects and challenges
Peet Denny, Founder and Climate VC
- Start  Wednesday 26 Feb 2025 5:00pm
- Finish Wednesday 26 Feb 2025 6:00pm
- Venue Brasenose College
- Postcode OX1 4AJ
Join the OES in their next speaker event this term. Peet Denny will be joining them to talk about the prospects and challenges of building a cleantech/energy startup.
As a Founding Partner of Climate VC, Peet is a seed investor investing in technologies that have a clear path to at least 10MtCO2e-scale annual impact. Their mission is to find, foster and fund crazy, unusual, and innovative startups who want to have a global and gigatonne-scale impact on the climate. He is also the founder of the largest UK AI community outside of London.
Future events
ZERO Institute DPhil writing retreat
Tuesday 21 Apr 2026
TT26 Energy Seminar – Week 1: Decarbonising the UK revisited: Lessons from two decades of energy scenario development
Tuesday 28 Apr 2026
TT26 Energy Seminar – Week 2: Boosting energy system resilience in the face of future weather extremes
Tuesday 05 May 2026
Careers in sustainability – Saving the world event
Wednesday 06 May 2026
Oriel Environment Group – From disruption to decarbonisation: the future of energy
Thursday 07 May 2026
TT26 Energy Seminar – Week 3: China clean energy innovation and the global clean energy transition
Tuesday 12 May 2026
TT26 Energy Seminar – Week 4: AI Data Center Growth: Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Power Systems
Tuesday 19 May 2026
TT26 Energy Seminar – Week 5: Exploring the social mandate for reducing energy demand
Tuesday 26 May 2026
TT26 Energy Seminar – Week 6: The Future of Energy for Transport: Less about source and more about distribution
Tuesday 02 Jun 2026
TT26 Energy Seminar – Week 7: Is residential battery and solar the future for UK homes? Some data-driven thoughts
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Tuesday 09 Jun 2026

