28
Sep
11th Oxford energy Day
Conference | Thursday 28 Sep 2023 | Oxford Martin School, Lecture Theatre
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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 [...]
Seminar | Week 5
31
Oct
Energy Seminar – Week 4: Royal Society Report on Energy Storage
Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn-Smith FRS
Seminar | Week 4 | Tuesday 31 Oct 2023 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: Electricity will meet an increasing fraction of the world’s growing energy needs as fossil fuels are phased out. In Great Britain most will be provided by wind and solar. To match wind and solar, which are volatile, with demand, which is variable, they must be complemented by using wind and solar generated [...]
Seminar | Week 4
24
Oct
Energy Seminar – Week 3: Winning the Energy Transition
Chris Nelder, xenetwork
Seminar | Week 3 | Tuesday 24 Oct 2023 | Dyson Perrins Building
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: Researchers focusing on the energy transition, as well as the journalists and podcasters who cover them, risk focusing too much on the facts of climate science and the portfolio of technology solutions that can effectuate the energy transition, while missing the vitally important context of realpolitik and political economy in which we [...]
Seminar | Week 3
18
Oct
Energy Demand – Why it Matters in the Energy Transition
Dr Tina Fawcett
Wednesday 18 Oct 2023 | Thom Building
Seminar organised by the Oxford Energy Society.
Dr Tina Fawcett is a senior researcher in the Energy Programme at Oxford’s Enviornmental Chance Institute (ECI and Co-Director of CREDS (Centre for Research into Entry Demand Solutions) where she leads work on energy policy.
17
Oct
Energy Seminar – Week 2: Targeting Transformation of the World’s Energy Supply with the Most Practical Path to Commercial Fusion Energy
Myles Hildebrand, General Fusion
Seminar | Week 2 | Tuesday 17 Oct 2023 | Dyson Perrins Building
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: This talk will explain Magnetized Target Fusion, how it draws on concepts from both magnetic and inertial confinement fusion and sidesteps the traditional barriers to commercial fusion. A brief overview of past experimental success will be provided along with a description of General Fusion’s future plans on their path to commercialization. General [...]
Seminar | Week 2
16
Oct
Environmental Research 2023
Monday 16 Oct 2023
The Environmental Research programme runs from 16th October to 23rd November 2023 as a virtual event series, each with its own core theme. Throughout each of the days, conference chairs will host sessions each comprising individual talks from speakers across the world.
Further details and to register here.
11
Oct
Onshore CO2 storage in the UK: What’s the current state of knowledge?
Tom Kettlety (Department of Earth Sciences)
Wednesday 11 Oct 2023 | Weston Library
Permanent CO2 storage is an integral part of reaching net zero and meeting the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. The UK has committed to develop CO2 storage in geological reservoirs deep underground, but so far has focussed on doing so offshore. Onshore storage might well prove useful, however, especially for sources of emissions that are dispersed and far from [...]
10
Oct
Energy Seminar – Week 1: The political economy of fossil fuel subsidy reform in developing countries
Dr Neil McCulloch, Director, Policy Practice
Seminar | Week 1 | Tuesday 10 Oct 2023 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: This seminar will outline the main arguments of the new book on “Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies – the politics of saving the planet”, written by Dr. Neil McCulloch. The book explains what fossil fuel subsidies are, how they inflict harm and what steps are being taken to reduce them. It also shows [...]
Seminar | Week 1
09
Oct
Special Lecture 2023 with Dr Andrew Forrest AO
Dr Andrew Forrest AO
Monday 09 Oct 2023 | Trinity College
In this special lecture, Andrew Forrest – Executive Chairman of Fortescue – will explore the unique responsibility of industrialists and business leaders to go further and faster on emissions reduction. Dr Forrest will delve into the challenge of decarbonizing hard-to-abate industries, emphasizing the need for innovative solutions without relying on carbon offsets. He will draw upon his experience as Executive [...]
04
Oct
Designing net zero governance: The moment for multilateral governance and national regulation
Selam Kidane Abebe (Oxford Net Zero), Kaya Axelsson (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and the Environmental Change Institute)
Wednesday 04 Oct 2023 | Weston Library
National net zero commitments now cover 88% of global emissions, 92% of GDP and 89% of the world’s population (Net Zero Tracker). To support this, net zero guidance and standards now exist for organisations at every level of the economy. Still, an implementation gap exists with respect to net zero regulation and implementation at the national level – and there is limited [...]