17
Sep
12th Oxford Energy Day
Conference | Tuesday 17 Sep 2024 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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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 [...]
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