17
Sep
12th Oxford Energy Day
Conference | Tuesday 17 Sep 2024 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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Past events
13
Mar
The MEGA Green Tech Series
Yulong Ding, Richard Jackson, Cameron Hepburn
Thursday 13 Mar 2025 | New College
Part 4 – Decarbonising Industry
13
Mar
Using geophysics to understand volcanic eruptions and search for geothermal energy resources
Prof Martyn Unsworth
Thursday 13 Mar 2025 | Oxford Martin School
Volcanic eruptions can be very destructive and have significant economic impact. However, active volcanoes are also a source of geothermal energy, and are used to produce heat and electricity in a number of locations around the world. Understanding the risks of a volcanic eruption, and developing geothermal energy resources, requires information about where molten rock and hot water is located [...]
11
Mar
Energy Seminar – HT25 Week 8: The astonishing rise of solar PV
Dr Chris Jardine
Tuesday 11 Mar 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: 25 years ago, solar PV was a hugely expensive, niche energy technology. Today, it’s one of the cheapest means of generating electricity worldwide and we’re installing Gigawatts every single day. It’s easy to take this for granted, perhaps – so here’s a light-hearted review of how it all happened.
Speaker: Chris joined the [...]
06
Mar
The MEGA Green Tech Series – part 3 carbon capture
Tim Kruger, Founder & Chief Scientist, Origen Power; Senior Associate, Oxford Net Zero; Co-founder, Carbon Gap, Amrit Gill, Molecular Biologist, CyanoCapture
Thursday 06 Mar 2025 | New College
Net-zero does not mean zero emissions!
Carbon capture is a vital part of the strategy, helping us to remove greenhouse gases emitted from hard-to-abate sources like aviation and livestock. Moreover, carbon capture is the integral mechanism in 2oc-target models which predict some degree of ‘overshoot’. This week at MEGA they introduce companies from two of the main carbon capture modes: geological [...]
04
Mar
Energy Seminar – HT25 Week 7: Harvesting energy from the Cold Universe: The missing piece in the renewables puzzle?
Professor Ioannis Papakonstantinou
Tuesday 04 Mar 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: On a bright, warm day, the more than 1TW of installed solar power capacity worldwide works tirelessly to light up our houses, charge our cars, power our business and in general, to seamlessly support our daily lives. This remarkable achievement has been made possible by over 60 years of advancements in photovoltaics, [...]
28
Feb
Worcester Energy Day
various speakers
Friday 28 Feb 2025 | Worcester College
After a very successful first edition in 2024, the Sustainability Research Working Group at Worcester College is organising the second edition of Worcester Energy Day.
In partnership with the ZERO Institute at Oxford, this promises to be a one-of-a-kind event which aims to gather the entire energy research community across the University to learn and appreciate the diverse research themes being [...]
27
Feb
The MEGA Green Tech Series
Chris Vogel, CoTide, Ross Morgan, Tokamak Energy, Bill Nuttall, University of Bristol
Thursday 27 Feb 2025 | New College
Make earth green again
Part 2: Green Power
26
Feb
Cleantech/Energy Startups – prospects and challenges
Peet Denny, Founder and Climate VC
Wednesday 26 Feb 2025 | Brasenose College
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 [...]
25
Feb
Energy Seminar – HT25 Week 6: ‘Seeing inside’ energy materials – understanding why and how materials in electrochemical devices fail
Dr Jennifer Johnstone-Hack
Tuesday 25 Feb 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: From batteries for electric vehicles to electrolysers for green hydrogen production, the need for electrochemical technologies is clear. These technologies rely on a range of critical minerals, making high performance and long device lifetimes essential in ensuring sufficient materials supply in the decades to come.
This talk will discuss the use of advanced [...]
18
Feb
Energy Seminar – HT25 Week 5: Hotter Days Ahead: Why We Must Prepare Victoria’s Electricity System for Climate Change
Eleanor McIndoe, Analyst, Low Carbon Contracts Company
Tuesday 18 Feb 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT – PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE AND ROOM CHANGE – CITY ROOM, SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY
Summary: Victoria, Australia has experienced multiple large-scale power outages due to heatwaves, which are expected to intensify with future climate change, posing a risk to the security of the state’s electricity system. This talk will examine the impacts [...]