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24 May

Energy Seminar – week 5: Geospatial optimization and strategic investments in solar and wind: The case of the African continent and small island states –

Jay Doorga will speak in person at the Oxford Martin School. To watch online register below for TEAMS webinar link.

Tuesday 24 May 2022 | Oxford Martin School, Seminar Room 1 | Slides available
Summary: Countries worldwide are being urged to adopt utility-scale solar and wind to effectively decarbonize the global power sector. The strategic investment in wind and solar is becoming an increasingly important issue that necessitates the analysis of socio-economic, political, institutional, environmental, technical, and investment risk factors. This lecture introduces a geospatial-based approach to optimize on solar and wind at the [...]

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16 May

Energy Seminar – week 4: How will ending poverty impact climate change? A well-being centred approach to energy transitions

Narasimha D. Rao will speak in person at the Oxford Martin School. To watch online register below for TEAMS webinar link. Exceptionally this seminar is on MONDAY.

Monday 16 May 2022 | Oxford Martin School | Slides available
This is the first public lecture in the Oxford Department of International Development’s seminar series (Queen Elizabeth House) on Climate Change and the Challenges of Development, held in collaboration with the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development (Somerville College) and the Oxford Energy Network (Environmental Change Institute) that took place at the Oxford Martin School, Board Street, Oxford. Summary: Although distributive [...]

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12 May

The Royal Society presents: Decarbonisation of electricity supply and land transport to meet net zero in the UK

Thursday 12 May 2022 | The Royal Society
This conference aims to bring together national and international leaders from across the energy sector and is intended for participants from across academia, industry and government. Background A previous event  Energy storage – automotive and grids at the Royal Society explored how high performance energy storage systems will be essential in developing a sustainable future economy and their potential for next generation technologies to [...]

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03 May

Energy Seminar – Week 2: Participatory Governance and Social Factors in the Energy Transition

Nadejda Komendantova - will present through online TEAMS webinar

Tuesday 03 May 2022 | Slides available
Achieving a degree of or full decarbonisation of energy and electricity generation will transform systems from centrally planned with energy generation and demand centres located close to each other, along with fossil fuel technologies as a baseload to more diversified energy generation systems. This will lead to new energy producers entering the market, and consumers becoming prosumers.  New forms of energy generation [...]

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27 Apr

Data Science and AI for sustainability conference 2022 – University of Cambridge

Wednesday 27 Apr 2022
Hosted by Interdisciplinary Research Centres Energy and C2D3, the 2022 conference will be held in-person. As we move towards a zero carbon economy to meet climate change targets, it is critical to identify and tackle data and AI challenges associated with the generation, storage and supply of energy. This is increasingly important from a technology, policy and societal perspective. New technologies [...]

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26 Apr

Energy Seminar – week 1: The competitive disadvantages facing British assetless electricity retailers

Hybrid event - Lawrence Haar will present in person at the Oxford Martin School

Tuesday 26 Apr 2022 | Oxford Martin School | Slides available
Summary: From the outset of deregulation and privatisation of UK electricity markets, the desired extent of vertical integration has been debated. Concerns over the dominance of the “Big Six” majors and whether consumers were receiving a fair deal, led the new Government of 2010 to promote the entry of new retail supply firms without generation assets. Increasing consumer choice and [...]

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23 Mar

10th Oxford Energy Day: Energy and Net Zero in the UK

Conference | Wednesday 23 Mar 2022 | Blavatnik School of Government
The 10th Oxford Energy Day took place on Wednesday, 23 March 2022. This year’s Oxford Energy Day looked at the long-term picture for Energy and Net Zero in the UK.  The goal of net-carbon emissions is driven by the imperative of stabilising the climate.  This requires that the UK energy system becomes zero-carbon, that is, fossil-free.  Other major drivers of energy [...]

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17 Mar

What role for science in achieving Net Zero?’

Professor Paul Monk, Chief Scientific Adviser, BEIS

Thursday 17 Mar 2022 | Oxford Martin School
What are the scientific challenges to achieving Net Zero? This talk is in-person and online. Professor Paul Monks, Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, will discuss the role of science in helping the UK (and other nations) achieve their net zero goals. This talk is co-convened by the Oxford Martin School and the Agile [...]

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08 Mar

Digitalisation of daily life and impacts on carbon emissions

Charlie Wilson

Tuesday 08 Mar 2022 | Oxford Martin School | Slides available
Summary:  Digital technologies and applications are shaping the way we shop, eat, travel, and manage our domestic environment. The digitalisation of daily life can have both beneficial and adverse impacts on climate. In this talk I consider how – for better or for worse – the digitalisation of our daily lives is inextricably linked to our efforts tackling climate change. Digitalisation [...]

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22 Feb

Availability of sustainable biomass in Europe: framework conditions and projections from 2030- 2050

Calliope Panoutsou

Tuesday 22 Feb 2022 | Slides available
Summary:  Sustainable biomass supply has been highly debated, both at the scientific and at the political levels, for almost two decades with controversial arguments. Some stakeholders strongly support the development of biomass value chains to deliver renewable raw materials, boost economic growth and rural development and increase farm income. Others however express overwhelming concerns about the risks that unsustainable practices [...]

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