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23 Nov

Speculative hydrogen futures and ambitions for green recovery in the eastern Adriatic

Marc Brightman, University of Bologna, Italy

Wednesday 23 Nov 2022 | School of Anthropology
The industrial landscape of the port of Ravenna, emblematic of Italy’s postwar industrial recovery, is now the scene for new fantasies of energy-driven economic recovery. Two hydrogen projects lobbied the government for a share of Italy’s allocation from the EU pandemic recovery fund: ENI, the Italian oil major, proposed an ambitious programme of blue hydrogen production, using methane from existing [...]

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22 Nov

Energy Seminar – week 7: Inescapable Obligations: an examination of the government’s energy security announcements

Tim Stone - speaking in person

Seminar | Week 7 | Tuesday 22 Nov 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room | Slides available
Summary:   This presentation, on the government’s energy security announcements, will examine them in the context of events since 2004, looking at the overall energy system, including nuclear energy policy.​It will be a non-partisan examination of the developments from the perspectives of both inside and outside Whitehall. Speaker:  Tim Stone is the Chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association and also the Chairman [...]

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Seminar | Week 7
22 Nov

Why SLES?: The Value Case for Smart Local Energy Systems

Tuesday 22 Nov 2022 | Online
‘Why SLES?’, a question that comes up time and time again from energy decision-makers, so we’re putting it directly to some of those responsible for delivering Smart Local Energy System (SLES) projects. At this workshop, participants, each involved in one of six different PfER (Prospering from the Energy Revolution) funded demonstrator and detailed design projects, will pitch the value case for [...]

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15 Nov

Energy Seminar – week 6: Retrofit at scale – solving the system challenge

Helene Gosden - speaking in person

Seminar | Week 6 | Tuesday 15 Nov 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room | Slides available
Summary: Retrofit of our existing building stock is an urgent climate action needed to greatly reduce operational carbon emissions and conserve embodied carbon, by extending the life of existing buildings. It’s also an important part of climate adaptation. The urgency means that one building at a time will not be enough – we need to consider how we retrofit at [...]

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Seminar | Week 6
10 Nov

How do we fix the energy crisis and the climate crisis? – a public talk by Greg Jackson, CEO Octopus Energy

Thursday 10 Nov 2022 | Wesley Memorial Hall
Greg Jackson will be joined by Tessa Kahn, a widely-respected international climate change and human rights lawyer and Director of Uplift UK, a new campaigning group working on fossil fuels and energy issues; and Zoe Sprigings, the new director of the Oxfordshire Community Foundation that provides valuable support to many local initiatives across the county. The meeting will be followed at a [...]

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10 Nov

The Power of Inclusion: Designing equitable energy systems across social divisions – CO27 Side Events

Thursday 10 Nov 2022 | Online
Climate Compatible Growth Programme:   CO27 Side Events Speakers: Makena Ireri (Chair), Head of Energy at CLASP Alexander Haack, Programme Director, Energising Development (EnDev) Sam Stratton-Short, Head of Strategic Initiatives, Infrastructure & Project Management at UNOPS Elizabeth Wangeci Chege, Energy Efficiency & Cooling Specialist at Sustainable Energy for All Edwin Obiero, Regional Director for West Africa at Practical Action Abstract: Inclusion is an important yet undervalued part of [...]

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09 Nov

Conference: European Biomass to Power

Wednesday 09 Nov 2022 | ACIEU
ACI’s 11th European Biomass to Power Summit in November, 2022. The two-day event will bring together key industry stakeholders from the biomass industry: feedstock suppliers, biomass plant operators, end-product manufacturers, as well as technology providers – for two days of informative presentations, interactive discussion & excellent networking opportunities. Following the success of our previous conference in Manchester, UK, we are delighted to [...]

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08 Nov

Energy Seminar – week 5: What are the most important decisions to enable smart local energy systems?

Dr Jeff Hardy - speaking in person

Seminar | Week 5 | Tuesday 08 Nov 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room | Slides available
The UK does not have the appropriate policy, institutional and regulatory framework to realise the technical, economic, and societal potential of SLES. This report is a summary of the findings from a series of workshops that aimed to understand what decisions are needed to implement smart local energy systems (SLES). The work was led by the Grantham Institute at Imperial [...]

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Seminar | Week 5
01 Nov

Energy Seminar – week 4: Title: Climate, Energy and Affordable Housing Solutions: new buildings and retrofits.

Jonathan F.P. Rose - speaking in person

Seminar | Week 4 | Tuesday 01 Nov 2022 | ECI - Atmosphere Room | Slides available
Jonathan F.P. Rose, a leader of the green building movement in the United States will present his work bringing energy and climate reducing strategies to affordable housing in the USA. Jonathan’s firm received global recognition for its model green affordable housing project, Via Verde, developed in 2012 in New York City’s South Bronx. The project became a model for green affordable/ [...]

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Seminar | Week 4