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16 Jan

Energy Seminar Week 1 HT24: Using Data and AI to Deliver a Fully Sustainable Global Energy System

Lucy Yu, CEO at Centre for Net Zero

Seminar | Week 1 | Tuesday 16 Jan 2024 | Dyson Perrins Building
Summary: As more of our energy is generated from variable renewable sources and key sectors such as transport and heat electrify further, our future energy system will undergo fundamental transformation. The most important and yet least well understood changes concern the demand side. Established in 2021 by the global innovator Octopus Energy Group, Centre for Net Zero (CNZ) conducts independent, AI [...]

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Seminar | Week 1
05 Dec

‘Just’ Energy Infrastructure for the Climate Common Good’ FORUM

Tuesday 05 Dec 2023
The University of Pau and the Pays de l’Adour, the TREE Research Centre (Energy and Environmental Transitions), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France), the Maison Française d’Oxford and the Institute of European and Comparative Law (University of Oxford) are convening for the ‘Just’ Energy Infrastructure for the Climate Common Good: a Comparative International Analysis Forum. The Forum event [...]

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28 Nov

Energy Seminar – Week 8: What do we need to do to build onshore wind?

James Robottom

Seminar | Week 8 | Tuesday 28 Nov 2023 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: Onshore wind in the UK is complex. It is a mature technology with a current capacity of close to 15GW. That is enough to power over 9.5 million homes which last year generated 11% of the UK’s electricity needs. With the first commercial wind farm being built in England in 1991 – [...]

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Seminar | Week 8
21 Nov

Energy Seminar – Week 7: The roles of nuclear fission and fusion in the future UK energy system

Professor William Nuttall, CPhys FInstP FRSA

Seminar | Week 7 | Tuesday 21 Nov 2023 | Dyson Perrins Building
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: Fusion has somehow leapt from being a distant concern of horizon-scanning academics and national lab researchers to being a trendy new start-up technology. Fission advocates have a new plan that is factory built and hopefully cheaper than the vast 2-reactor power plant under construction near Bristol. Fusion research and development has seen [...]

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Seminar | Week 7
14 Nov

Energy Seminar – Week 6: Bringing Breakthrough Technologies to Market: Solar Power and Feed-in Tariffs

Sugandha Srivastav

Seminar | Week 6 | Tuesday 14 Nov 2023 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: Solving societal problems such as climate change requires commercializing new technologies. Yet, due to incomplete information, there are under-developed markets for finance and insurance for these new technologies. Temporary support to bring the first set of projects to market may be warranted to resolve this credit market failure. Sugandha investigates the impact [...]

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Seminar | Week 6
14 Nov

CREDS: Drop-in session (online) – Using research in policy: perspective from a secondee to DESNZ

Peter Mallburn, Government Affairs Manager

Tuesday 14 Nov 2023
Peter Mallaburn is the Government Affairs Manager for CREDS providing a liaison role between CREDS and UK Government Departments. He is currently also doing a part-time secondment to DESNZ in the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme where he is supporting the work on non-domestic heat pump deployment. This session will be run as a ‘Drop-in’ style where Peter will provide a 15-minute [...]

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07 Nov

Energy Seminar – Week 5: The UK energy demand observatory – how Oxford helps to understand and accelerate changes in energy demand

Dr Phil Grunewald

Seminar | Week 5 | Tuesday 07 Nov 2023 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: The way we use energy will have to undergo fundamental changes during the transition towards a net-zero world. Many of the technical solutions are known: insulate homes, electrify heating and transport, deploy smarter, more efficient and flexible appliances. But how well do they work in practice? Tracking the impact requires careful observation [...]

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Seminar | Week 5