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04 Feb

Energy Seminar – HT25 Week 3: Heat decarbonisation at the University of Oxford

Paul Cross, Head of Energy and Carbon

Tuesday 04 Feb 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
Summary: The University seeks to reduce scope 1 carbon emissions from around 18,000 COt pa to 4,000 COt pa by 2035.  This can only be achieved by replacing gas plant with lower carbon intensive alternatives.  This will generally feature heat pumps arranged individually or as networks.  This deployment requires a focus on related estates-wide issues including building performance optimisation, electricity [...]

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28 Jan

Energy Seminar – HT25 Week 2: Integrating Low Carbon Hydrogen into the UK’s Energy Mix: An Industry Perspective

Becca Neill, Head of Project Development at Hygen Energy

Tuesday 28 Jan 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
Summary: In order to achieve net zero by 2050, the UK government has highlighted the crucial role that low carbon hydrogen will play in decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors. Specifically, the UK government set the target to achieve 5GW of low carbon hydrogen capacity by 2030. Becca will discuss the opportunities and challenges in expanding the electrolytic hydrogen market from an industry perspective, highlighting current [...]

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21 Jan

Energy Seminar – HT25 Week 1: Energy Week Panel Discussion ‘AI, energy and environment: How worried should we be?’

Charlie Wilson, ECI, Felippa Amanta, ECI, Federica Lucivero, EthOx, Konstantina Vogiatzaki, Engineering Science

Tuesday 21 Jan 2025 | School of Geography & the Environment
Summary: A panel discussion overview of AI and energy, current concerns and research evidence, plus three short talks from experts and how their research connects with AI and its impact on energy, followed by the panel reflecting on the talks that have been given and speaking about any issues raised. Q&A discussion with the audience. Speakers: Charlie Wilson, ECI, Felippa Amanta, [...]

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21 Jan

Panel discussion: ‘Post-COP29 Debrief: Reflections on a Divisive Deal’

Professor Sam Fankhauser (Chair), Professor Thomas Hale, Dr Injy Johnstone, Jodi-Ann Wang, Ushika Kidd, Flora Prideaux

Tuesday 21 Jan 2025 | Oxford Martin School
COP29 concluded with a last-minute deal decried as inadequate by developing nations. From finance to carbon markets to youth demands, was any progress made in pushing forward international climate action at COP29? Or was it all “too little too late”? In this panel discussion, members of Oxford University’s COP29 delegation will share their perspectives on the summit and what the outcome means [...]

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15 Jan

The case for Medium Duration Energy Storage – and some varieties thereof

Seamus Garvey, Neville Rieger Professor of Dynamics, University of Nottingham

Wednesday 15 Jan 2025 | Atmosphere Room - ECI OUCE | Slides available
A Net Zero UK energy system is both achievable and affordable and many different solutions are possible. In all cases, substantially increased electrification is central. The biggest remaining challenges and uncertainties relate to how we will reconcile the supply of electricity with demand for it. Energy storage will likely provide most of the required flexibility and it is beyond doubt [...]

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05 Dec

Anticipating extreme events for the energy sector. How can meteorologists help?

Dr Hannah Bloomfield, Newcastle University

Thursday 05 Dec 2024 | Dobson Room, AOPP Building
As energy systems across the world push towards their net-zero targets they are becoming increasingly susceptible to weather and climate variability. This is due to both the increasing dependence on renewable energy (wind, solar and hydropower) and the electrification of heating (and therefore increased temperature dependence of electricity demand). New types of ‘extreme weather’ are becoming important driven by times [...]

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03 Dec

Energy Seminar – Week 8: Gas in decline – what to do with the gas grid when we no longer need it?

Dr Jan Rosenow

Seminar | Week 8 | Tuesday 03 Dec 2024 | School of Geography & the Environment | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: The use of gas will decline dramatically as part of the transition to net zero. Modelling at European level shows that by 2050 about 70% less gaseous fuels will be used. Significant regulatory reform is needed to deal with the impacts of this decline on the gas grid. Fossil gas today serves [...]

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Seminar | Week 8
26 Nov

Energy Seminar – Week 7: COP29 outcomes – from taking stock to taking action

Dr Nicholas Howarth

Seminar | Week 7 | Tuesday 26 Nov 2024 | Dyson Perrins Building | Slides available
THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: Last year nearly 200 countries at COP28 in Dubai agreed to a powerful package of energy commitments – the UAE Consensus – to help keep the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C alive. These included tripling renewable energy capacity, doubling the rate of energy efficiency progress, significantly reducing [...]

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Seminar | Week 7