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14 Nov

COP30 Unlocking the local benefits of renewable energy

Professor Mette Morsing, Director, Oxford University Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment; Interim Dean, Said Business School

Friday 14 Nov 2025
In person at COP30 and online – Brazil, GMT – 3 hrs Renewable energy has many benefits – but these are not always appropriately distributed. Some jurisdictions are shifting from voluntary to mandated efforts to ensure renewables developers share benefits equitably with local communities. But how much is ‘enough’? And who pays? This event explores new research from the University of [...]

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11 Nov

Energy Seminar – MT25 Week 5: Innovations for zero-carbon heating and cooling: the path to net-zero buildings by 2050

Prof Jesus Lizana, University of Oxford

Tuesday 11 Nov 2025 | Diversity Room
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary:  In this talk, Prof. Jesus Lizana will present the latest research from the ZERO Institute at the University of Oxford on zero-carbon heating and cooling. The talk will examine the role of the building sector in achieving net-zero targets by 2050, drawing on new evidence from citizen-powered climate observations and projections to [...]

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04 Nov

Energy Seminar – MT25 Week 4: Energy Abundance: Powerful vision for a better future or a flawed fantasy?

Dr Tina Fawcett

Tuesday 04 Nov 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: ‘Abundance’, a best-selling 2025 book by Americans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, makes the claim that “we need to build and invent more of what we need”. Building much more low-cost energy supply is a key part of the authors’ vision. They reject what they call the seductive ideologies of scarcity.  Using [...]

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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

Thursday 30 Oct 2025
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

Tuesday 28 Oct 2025 | Diversity Room | Slides available
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

Wednesday 22 Oct 2025 | Oxford Martin School, Lecture Theatre
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

Tuesday 21 Oct 2025 | Diversity Room | Slides available
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

Tuesday 14 Oct 2025 | Diversity Room | Slides available
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

Conference | Wednesday 24 Sep 2025
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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