Past Events

Speaker: Professor James Durrant 

Speaker: Juha Teirila (Oulu Business School, visiting EPRG)

Research Interest: Electricity market modelling, capacity markets, power plant flexibility, subsidies for renewable energy, economics of electricity storages

Speaker: Prof Susan Owens  (Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge) 

Speaker: Professor Peter Tavner, Durham University

Wind energy is a significant UK electricity supply contributor, with offshore wind making a strong contribution over the next 20 years. How are other marine renewables, wave and tidal growing?

Speaker: Gareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

A Winton teatime discussion hosted by Gareth Hinds, Principle Research Scientist at National Physical Laboratory (NPL), with research interests in electrochemical energy conversion and corrosion.

Speaker: Atif Ansar (Oxford)

Twinning: €1 million for 3 years for networking between researchers in any discipline, three partners are required.The Twinning Call will address the networking gaps and deficiencies between the research institutions of the low performing member state (EU13) and their internationally leading counterparts (EU15).

Following the COP21 Agreement in Paris last year, the UK is pursuing an ambitious plan to decarbonise its electricity sector, in order to meet 2008 Climate Change Act goals. Capital intensive zero-carbon investment such as nuclear energy is central to the plan, but faces critical financial challenges and controversy over high costs.

Join the British Ecological Society and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative forEmergencies, Evidence and Policy, a free public lecture by Professor Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School and former Chief Scientific Adviser

Economic History Society conference at 9.30am on Sunday 3rd April.

This comprises: 

IVG:   History & Policy Session: Energy, Trade and Efficiency (chair:Paul Warde) (Auditorium Lounge)

East versus West: Energy transition and energy intensity in coal-rich Europe, 1830-2000 Hana Nielsen (Lund University)