According to BP’s 2017 Energy Outlook, energy use in non-OECD countries is expected to increase by some 50% and make up over two-thirds of global energy consumption by 2035. This is lifting billions out of poverty, and underwriting the achievement of the millennium goals. How this increase ...
Over 50 energy enthusiasts from across the University met with Mainstream RP – a leader in the delivery of wind and solar installations worldwide, includingSouth Africa, Chile and Vietnam. In an afternoon of simulating lectures they learned about the entire chain from planning, to construc...
This term the Energy Network is running a series of introductory lectures on energy issues at the Oxford Martin School. The talks are aimed at postgraduate students but they are open to the wider University community. Topics covered include: energy and development, the carbon problem, energy econ...
The Michaelmas Energy Colloquia series commences on 11 October with a talk by Lord Oxburgh on CCS. This term the talks cover some of the key topics in the energy field, including: tidal power; redox flow batteries; nuclear energy; the built environment and storage.
Can Future Energy Needs be Met Sustainably? This was the question posed by Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith at the Oxford Alumni Weekend. View the gallery of his presentation.
The annual Oxford Energy Conference took place at the Mathematics Institute on 13 June. This year the conference focussed on Energy Systems including electricity, transport and heat.
Masters students on the Environmental Change and Management course at the Environmental Change Institute visited mid-Wales recently for a field trip focused on renewable energy. Staying at the Centre for Alternative Technology, they lived entirely off-grid, relying on micro-hydro, solar, biomass ...
Henry Snaith has been named the second most influential scientific mind of 2015 by Thomson Reuters.
Dr Philipp Grunewald, Deputy Director for Energy Research at Oxford, gave expert opinion to the Energy and Climate Change Committee as part of their enquiry into low carbon network infrastructure this week.