Tuesday 6 May 2025 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Online
About
Join us for a webinar jointly hosted by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The emerging energy economy offers significant opportunities for clean technology manufacturing but presents tough policy choices for governments. Balancing market efficiency and cost-effective energy transitions with secure, resilient supply chains is a challenge. Governments must decide which industries to support, how to structure trade relationships, and where to focus innovation.
This webinar explores the evolving role of manufacturing and trade in energy transitions and considers the implications for the UK. It brings together insight from the 2024 edition of IEA’s Energy Technology Perspectives – a global energy technology guidebook – with expertise from the UK Energy Research Centre, a whole systems research programme addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition to a net zero energy system and economy. The conversation will consider the UK’s position in supply chains for minerals critical to clean technology manufacturing. It will also offer technological and political-economic perspectives on industrial policy, innovation and circularity.
Speakers
- Chair: Dr. Caroline Kuzemko, University of Warwick and UKERC
- Dr. Uwe Remme, Head of Hydrogen and Alternative Fuels Unit, IEA
- Dr. Peter Levi, Hydrogen and Alternative Fuels Unit, IEA
- Prof. Gavin Bridge, Durham University and UKERC
- Dr. Jamie Speirs, University of Strathclyde and UKERC
Speaker Biographies
IEA
- Dr. Uwe Remme is Head of the Hydrogen and Alternative Fuels Unit in the Energy Technology Policy Division at the International Energy Agency (IEA). His team is responsible for the analysis of the current trends and future prospects for hydrogen and biofuels. Before his current assignment, he lead the energy supply analysis and modelling within the Energy Technology Perspectives project of the IEA and contributed as lead author to various IEA publications. Prior to joining the IEA, he worked as researcher at the University Stuttgart. Uwe Remme studied chemical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and completed a PhD degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Stuttgart.
- Dr. Peter Levi first joined the Energy Technology Policy Division of the International Energy Agency in 2016 and now leads the work on energy technology supply chains, which covers themes like manufacturing, trade and competitiveness. Before moving to this role, he was leading the Agency’s industry sector modelling and analysis, including its work on industrial decarbonisation. Prior to joining the IEA, Peter attended the University of Cambridge, where he obtained PhD and MPhil degrees in engineering.
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