Past events

30 Oct

Book talk – Roadkill : Unveiling The True Cost Of Our Toxic Relationship With Cars

Professor Dame Henrietta L Moore, Arthur Kay, Professor Tim Schwanen, Professor Sir Charles Godfram

Join Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL), and Arthur Kay (Director, Innovo) for a provocative discussion on how our dependence on cars has shaped not only our cities and infrastructure, but our economies, health, and freedoms. For more than a century, the car has been a symbol of freedom and progress. But what if that promise has [...]

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28 Oct

Energy Seminar – MT25 Week 3: Beyond the BMS: Leveraging Predictive Analytics for Smarter Energy Storage

Elizabeth Oliphant, Global Solutions Manager, ACCURE Battery Intelligence

THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Unlocking accurate SoC, deeper SoH insights, and early fault detection to advance battery performance in the data-driven BESS era. Summary: As the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) industry accelerates alongside renewable energy adoption, advanced battery management is becoming essential. While traditional Battery Management Systems (BMS) provide critical safety and operational control, they often lack [...]

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22 Oct

Feeding the world while preserving earth’s livability: the bio-fuel barrier

Prof David Tilman

The two fastest-growing global uses of food crops are their conversion into biofuels and their use as livestock feeds. Prof Tilman will discuss how, when both their direct and indirect environmental impacts are considered, most food-based biofuels cause more environmental harm than the petroleum fuels they replace. The solution to global food and environment problems is often thought to require [...]

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21 Oct

Energy Seminar – MT25 Week 2: An energy supplier perspective from E.ON in the UK

Chetan Lad, Head of UK Strategy, E.ON UK

THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Making new energy work: affordable, sustainable, for everyone Summary: This presentation will summarise E.ON UK’s approach to helping the UK’s households, businesses and communities transition to a low carbon energy future. It will introduce E.ON’s activities in the UK across energy retail and solutions. There will be some example initiatives that highlight E.ON’s commitment to [...]

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14 Oct

Energy Seminar – MT25 Week 1: The Billion-Pound Opportunity to Make Clean Power 2030 More Affordable

Joe Kwiatkowski, Matched Energy

THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT New index identifies suppliers investing in hourly renewable matching—the key to displacing expensive gas during peak demand. Summary: Millions of consumers choose renewable tariffs, generating more than £1bn in renewable certificate (REGO) spending since 2020. But current regulations don’t direct that money towards the clean power Britain needs during expensive peak hours. The UK’s [...]

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24 Sep

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

The 13th Oxford Energy Day will take place on: Wednesday 24th September 2025  Mathematical Institute Andrew Wiles Building Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6GG The 13th event will focus on: Energy & Data: Opportunities and challenges for the energy transition This year’s Energy Day will explore how data-related opportunities can advance energy technologies, materials and systems, and benefit scientific, engineering & social science research. The event [...]

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Conference
17 Jun

Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 8: Panel Discussion: Aviation, energy and climate – perspectives from an expert panel

Dr David Robinson, Oxford Climate Policy, Joanne Murraybrown, Oxford University Estates, Dr Chigozie Nweke-Eze, ECI

THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT A panel discussion overview on the role of aviation and its environmental impacts, current concerns and research evidence, including three short talks from experts and practitioners and how their work connects with the role of aviation in an energy context. The panel will then reflect on the talks and speak about any issues [...]

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16 Jun

The Blair black hole in global climate policy: international trade of zero-carbon goods

Professor Ross Garnaut

The Tony Blair Institute of Global Change recently published an article asserting that reducing emissions was difficult and would fail unless we expanded use of technologies that are expensive and a challenge to living standards. This is reminiscent of nineteenth century economist William Stanley Jevons’ in “The Coal Question”, warning of the limits that finite coal resources placed on British [...]

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12 Jun

Weather forecasting for the energy sector, and the emergence of AI

Dr Isla Finney, Lake Street Consulting

As an operational weather forecaster, an understanding of how numerical weather prediction models are structured and initialised enables better interpretation of their output and estimation of uncertainties in the forecast.  Renewable energy (which in the UK means mainly wind and solar generation) is increasingly providing our electricity.  As the installed renewable capacity increases, reliable estimates of uncertainty become increasingly important [...]

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