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Sep
12th Oxford Energy Day
Conference | Tuesday 17 Sep 2024 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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05
Dec
Anticipating extreme events for the energy sector. How can meteorologists help?
Dr Hannah Bloomfield, Newcastle University
Thursday 05 Dec 2024 | Dobson Room, AOPP Building
As energy systems across the world push towards their net-zero targets they are becoming increasingly susceptible to weather and climate variability. This is due to both the increasing dependence on renewable energy (wind, solar and hydropower) and the electrification of heating (and therefore increased temperature dependence of electricity demand). New types of ‘extreme weather’ are becoming important driven by times [...]
04
Dec
Book discussion: India’s Energy Revolution
Prof Annika Bose Styczynski, Discussant, Dr Anupama Sen
Wednesday 04 Dec 2024 | Somerville College
04
Dec
Visit to Osney Lock Hydro
Wednesday 04 Dec 2024
Join the Oxford Energy Society for a guided tour of Osney Lock Hydro, the first hydroelectric scheme on the River Thames. Set up and funded by 200 community members, it became fully operational in May 2015, generating clean electricity for the equivalent of 50 households and a long-term income stream for local environmental projects. It paves the way for community-led projects [...]
03
Dec
Energy Seminar – Week 8: Gas in decline – what to do with the gas grid when we no longer need it?
Dr Jan Rosenow
Seminar | Week 8 | Tuesday 03 Dec 2024 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: The use of gas will decline dramatically as part of the transition to net zero. Modelling at European level shows that by 2050 about 70% less gaseous fuels will be used. Significant regulatory reform is needed to deal with the impacts of this decline on the gas grid. Fossil gas today serves [...]
Seminar | Week 8
26
Nov
Energy Seminar – Week 7: COP29 outcomes – from taking stock to taking action
Dr Nicholas Howarth
Seminar | Week 7 | Tuesday 26 Nov 2024 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: Last year nearly 200 countries at COP28 in Dubai agreed to a powerful package of energy commitments – the UAE Consensus – to help keep the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C alive. These included tripling renewable energy capacity, doubling the rate of energy efficiency progress, significantly reducing [...]
Seminar | Week 7
19
Nov
Energy Seminar – Week 6: The cleantech revolution. How the energy system will be disrupted this decade
Kingsmill Bond
Seminar | Week 6 | Tuesday 19 Nov 2024 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: Clean energy technologies have been enjoying exponential growth for decades, and are now causing disruption of the fossil fuel system. Whilst the barriers are many, the drivers of change are more powerful and include falling costs, energy security, Chinese leadership, and the race to the top. So we should expect exponential cleantech [...]
Seminar | Week 6
07
Nov
Oriel Environmental Group Michaelmas 2024 Lecture: Morocco as a Gateway for Green Hydrogen to Europe: Technical, Economic and Regulatory Challenges
Peter Gish, Founder & Co-CEO of Ortus Climate Mitigation
Thursday 07 Nov 2024 | Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College
The Oriel Environmental Group’s Michaelmas talk, will be given by Peter Gish (1986).
Peter Gish is founder & Co-CEO of Ortus Climate Mitigation and has extensive experience in the acquisition, design, development, financing, and operation of wind, solar and storage projects in North America, North Africa and Europe and has published several articles on renewable energy project financing. He has given [...]
06
Nov
Will AI cause an energy crisis?
Felippa Amanta
Wednesday 06 Nov 2024 | Trinity College
Join the Oxford Energy Society in the second speaker event in their AI and Energy series. Felippa Amanta will be joining to talk about how the rapid AI development in our age will impact the energy system of the future.
Felippa is a DPhil student in the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford researching on the impact of digitalisation to our [...]
05
Nov
Energy Seminar – Week 4: Innovation in the context of the energy transition
Dr Claudia Centazzo
Seminar | Week 4 | Tuesday 05 Nov 2024 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
THIS IS AN INPERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: The ESO has now become NESO, the National Energy System Operator, an independent public corporation with new planning and advisory responsibilities across the whole energy system.
The drive toward decarbonisation and net zero has never felt more acute, a responsibility NESO take seriously. The energy sector continues to evolve at pace, developing new technologies [...]
Seminar | Week 4
29
Oct
Energy Seminar – Week 3: The paradigm shift in fusion energy: How Kyoto Fusioneering is accelerating the path to commercialisation
Dr Richard Pearson, Co-founder Kyoto Fusioneering
Seminar | Week 3 | Tuesday 29 Oct 2024 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
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Summary: Over the past decade, the fusion energy landscape has transformed dramatically, driven by scientific breakthroughs, technological innovations, and an influx of private investment. This paradigm shift has ushered in a new epoch, marked by unprecedented public-private partnerships and a shared ambition to bring commercial fusion to reality within a decade. In this [...]
Seminar | Week 3