MT26 Energy Seminar – Week 1: Should the state generate our power? Public ownership and public control in the GB electricity system

Dr Donal Brown

  • Start  Tuesday 13 Oct 2026 5:00pm
  • Finish    Tuesday 13 Oct 2026 6:00pm
  • Venue  School of Geography & the Environment
  • Postcode OX1 3AN
Dr Donal Brown, Senior Researcher

THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT

Speaker: Dr Donal Brown is a senior researcher in energy policy and political economy specialising in the governance and financing of the low-carbon transition. His work focuses on electricity market reform, energy demand reduction, and the delivery of large-scale housing retrofit programmes. He joins the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford following roles as Director of UK Programmes at Ashden Climate Solutions, and at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex, where he worked on the political economy of net zero and the institutional challenges of decarbonising the UK energy system.