28
Sep
11th Oxford energy Day
Conference | Thursday 28 Sep 2023 | Oxford Martin School, Lecture Theatre
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16
Jun
Project LEO (Local Energy Oxfordshire) – How are Local Networks Enabling the Energy Transition?
Melanie Bryce
Seminar | Week 8 | Tuesday 16 Jun 2020 | Online | Slides available
Project LEO (Local Energy Oxfordshire) is helping Oxfordshire to accelerate towards net zero. Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is proud to be the lead partner on LEO and to be supporting Oxfordshire, the first county to declare a climate emergency, to deliver its net zero ambitions. The project is trialling the matching of renewable generation and demand at a [...]
Seminar | Week 8
09
Jun
What can we learn about energy use from activity patterns during a lockdown?
Dr Philipp Grünewald
Seminar | Week 1 | Tuesday 09 Jun 2020 | Online | Slides available
Rapid and radical societal change is possible – the response to COVID-19 has proven that. Can lessons be learned for responses tothe climate emergency?
Energy is only an intermediate good that becomes useful by turning it into an energy service. When usage patterns change, due to severe weather events, changes in price, uptake of new technologies or practices, or indeed during [...]
Seminar | Week 1
26
May
Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Design for Offshore Wind Turbines – Online only
Tuesday 26 May 2020 | Online
Offshore wind energy is a major component of the UK’s energy mix, with nearly 2500 offshore turbines either operational or being constructed, and many more planned for the next few decades. Similarly ambitious plans exist acrossEurope and elsewhere in the world. Advanced engineering design plays a crucial role in reducing capital and operational costs, and is necessary for the wind [...]
05
May
POSTPONED Picturing the future city: digital devices, big data and being human
Tuesday 05 May 2020
One of the most significant transformations happening in cities across the world is the use of ‘big data’. Big digital data is generated by all sorts of sensors in urban environments, from air pollution and water level monitors, to smartphone apps and surveillancecameras. Big data can take many forms; both city governments and private platforms like Google and Uber are [...]
28
Apr
The limits of energy sufficiency: A review of the evidence for rebound effects and negative spillovers from behavioural change
Seminar | Week 1 | Tuesday 28 Apr 2020 | Online | Slides available
‘Energy sufficiency’ involves reducing consumption of energy services in order to minimise the associated environmental impacts. This may either be through individual actions, such as reducing car travel, or through reducing working time, income and aggregate consumption (‘downshifting’). However, the environmental benefits of both strategies may be less than anticipated. First, people may save money that they can spend on [...]
Seminar | Week 1
11
Mar
Invitation: Stakeholder Sustainability Networking Event
Wednesday 11 Mar 2020 | Oxford Martin School
Hosted by the OxPOCH project, Oxford Networks for the Environment (ONE) & the OMS
The OxPOCH research project, led by Prof. E.J. Milner-Gulland (Zoology), in conjunction with the ONE and the OMS, is hosting a networking event which will contribute to the consultation on the Environmental Sustainability Strategy that the University is in the process of drafting. This new Strategy aims [...]
27
Feb
Understanding and promoting social transformations to address climate change
Thursday 27 Feb 2020 | Gottmann Room, OUCE
While there is now strong international momentum on action to tackle climate change, in order to avoid further widespread impacts there is a need for more fundamental transformations across all parts of society. Progress in reducing the UK’s emissions has largely been restricted to improving energy efficiency and decarbonising energy production, while there has been much less traction in other [...]
18
Feb
Climbing the energy services ladder: transitions in India’s urbanenergy consumption amid a changing global climate
Seminar | Week 1 | Tuesday 18 Feb 2020
Demand-side measures, such as urban energy management in households, are central to addressing global climate change. Examining and shaping energy consumption patterns is particularly salient in developing countries, where the bulk of urban growth is projected to occur and which are often the most vulnerable to climate impacts. India is keyto these discussions as it undergoes the largest urban transition [...]
Seminar | Week 1
28
Jan
An Empirical Analysis of the Fiscal Incidence of Renewable EnergySupport in the European Union
Tuesday 28 Jan 2020 | Slides available
In liberalised energy markets, electricity from Renewable Energy (RE) using Solar PV and Wind Turbines requires financial support because the expected number of generation hours is insufficient to induce private investment. Such support has a direct cost from the additional expenditure over what would have been incurred had fossil fuel generation been used and indirect costs arising from the random [...]
23
Jan
Energy Policy in the Age of Climate Change: Recent experience andchallenges ahead
Thursday 23 Jan 2020
This lecture will reflect on changes in UK energy policy since the early 2000s, when the first long term emissions target was proposed in the 2003 Energy White Paper. The UK is already well on the way to meeting that target, which required a 60% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050. In the meantime, many changes have affected the energy sector: climate science has highlighted [...]