17
Sep
12th Oxford Energy Day
Conference | Tuesday 17 Sep 2024 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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20
Jun
Low Carbon Contracts Company Workshop
various
Friday 20 Jun 2025 | Diversity Room
The LCCC Workshop will cover the following:
The role of the LCCC and how & why the CfDs work
Sectors the CfDs have been applied in so far (Power, CCUS, Hydrogen) and some new areas being worked on
A quick overview of the GGR business model under development (public domain information)
The ongoing development of the GGR standard
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, Chigozie Nweke-Eze, ECI
Tuesday 17 Jun 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment
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 [...]
16
Jun
The Blair black hole in global climate policy: international trade of zero-carbon goods
Professor Ross Garnaut
Monday 16 Jun 2025 | Oxford Martin School
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 [...]
12
Jun
Weather forecasting for the energy sector, and the emergence of AI
Dr Isla Finney, Lake Street Consulting
Thursday 12 Jun 2025 | Dobson Room, AOPP Building
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 [...]
11
Jun
Designing policies for energy sufficiency
Dr Sarah Darby
Wednesday 11 Jun 2025
Dr Sarah Darby, Emerita Research Fellow with the Energy Programme at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), will be speaking at an upcoming webinar hosted by APESA. Her talk will focus on the concept of energy sufficiency, drawing on work she co-authored with Dr Tina Fawcett at the ECI. In their 2018 publication, they defined energy sufficiency as: “a state in [...]
10
Jun
Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 7: Battery Energy Storage Systems… There’s an App for that!
Peter Bance
Tuesday 10 Jun 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Data-driven solutions are essential for green energy infrastructure
Summary: In a world powered by renewables, battery energy storage systems (BESS) are emerging as the ‘must-have’ asset class that will hold things together – bridging the physics of grids and the economics of markets. And with the associated operational & financial complexities of batteries comes [...]
06
Jun
REECON-UK: Rare Earth Element Forum
various speakers
Friday 06 Jun 2025 | Oxford Martin School
REECON-UK, a one-day multidisciplinary Rare Earth Element forum hosted by the Oxford Martin School Programme on Rethinking Natural Resources and Oxford EARTH.
Rare earth elements (REE) are increasingly critical to a wide variety of technologies required for the energy transition. Recent geopolitical events have refocussed attention on this important class of critical raw materials. To address issues related to REE, we [...]
03
Jun
Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 6: Public attitudes towards energy infrastructure and technologies: Why it matters what people think and feel about the energy transition
Christina Demski, CAST ISCC
Tuesday 03 Jun 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: The way we produce and use energy is changing – from large-scale infrastructure and system changes (e.g. renewables, hydrogen) to new technologies in our homes (e.g. heat pumps, energy storage). A successful green energy transition therefore requires support from the public – developers need a social license to operate, and householders need [...]
02
Jun
Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit – June 2025
various
Monday 02 Jun 2025
Advancing the conversation around climate change and human rights.
Climate change is a human rights crisis.
In June 2025 the University of Oxford is hosting a global summit on climate change and human rights in partnership with UN Human Rights, the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance, the International Universities Climate Alliance and co-host universities across the world.
Registration is now open [...]
27
May
Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 5: Exploring Energy Reduction in Historic Housing – A Case Study of National Trust Conservation Area Cottages
Holly Bailey-Burnley
Tuesday 27 May 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: This seminar presents a summary of MSc Energy Systems thesis research examining approaches to reducing energy impact in National Trust Conservation Area holiday cottages. The study investigates spatial clustering methods to identify similar properties and explores the potential for Air-Source Heat Pump implementation in historic buildings. Using EnergyPlus modelling on a case [...]