28
Sep
11th Oxford energy Day
Conference | Thursday 28 Sep 2023 | Oxford Martin School, Lecture Theatre
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17
Jan
COP 28: Over and Out?
Professor Isabel Oliver - Director General of Science and Research & Chief Scientific Officer at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Dr Rosie Rowe - Head of Healthy Place Shaping at Oxfordshire County Council Paul Skinner - Co-Chair and Company Secretary at Rose Hill and Iffley Low Carbon Alexis McGivern - Net Zero Standards Manager at Oxford Net Zero
Wednesday 17 Jan 2024 | Kellogg College - the Hub
Back in 2015, the Paris Agreement marked a significant step forward in global efforts to combat climate change. However, the recent UN Climate Change Conference, COP 28 in Dubai, has left us with more uncertainties than assurances about our ability to address the climate crisis through good governance.
Fossil fuels continue to be widely used, prompting a need for urgent action [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
30
Nov
Decarbonisation of Road Freight: Electricity or Hydrogen?
Professor David Cebon
Thursday 30 Nov 2023
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 – [...]
Seminar | Week 8
23
Nov
Cyber Security of Energy Systems
David Wallom, Professor of Infomatics
Thursday 23 Nov 2023 | Social Science Library
This event is available online. Please use the link above to join.
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 [...]
Seminar | Week 7
16
Nov
New Frontiers in Battery Technology
Ulderico Ulissi
Thursday 16 Nov 2023 | Keble College
An introduction to CATL, the typical current and future use cases of batteries, our activities in 21C (Research) and an overview of next generation technologies.
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 [...]
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 [...]