Events

THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: Andy Burnham has resurrected the idea of the public ownership of energy from the margins into Downing Street, promising “stronger public control” over energy in his forthcoming ten-year plan. But does control mean ownership? This seminar presents preliminary results from new research on how ownership shapes the cost of capital in Britain’s [...]

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: Tim will describe the journey to fusion energy. The work at UKAEA’s Culham Campus near Oxford has been at the forefront of this field for decades, including operating the international JET fusion machine until 2023. Fusion is now in a transition from primarily laboratory research to commercial activity, with rapidly increasing private-sector activity. [...]