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The BIEE is delighted to be holding its next Research Conference at Worcester College in Oxford, Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 September 2025.

Whilst there has been positive progress to celebrate, there remains much more to be decided and done to transition the whole energy system successfully to be low carbon.

The issues involved impact the entire energy system (not only electricity), and there is a need to draw on a wide range of domestic and international perspectives in this changed global and UK context for net zero.

Do countries need to increase delivery pace to meet 2030 aims? Has success been made more complex in a fractured world? What is the role and value of energy in systems and for communities and people? What influence do market design, system considerations, legacy and finance have in the transition?

BIEE’s biennial Research Conference offers an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of current work on these issues, hear from experts and join the debate on pathways for the future. As time passes, it remains vital for academic, business and policy experts to be in close contact. The two days will offer an unrivalled opportunity to speak directly to specialists across these three groups.

Plenary sessions will look at the political and environmental context and will hear from leading policymakers and thinkers on key topics in the transition.

In-depth papers over two days will look at themes including the economic, environmental and geopolitical context, progress and innovation in the solutions being deployed, the role of finance and investment in the transition, the approaches taken to legacy infrastructure, and new approaches to modelling this ever smarter and more complex system.

Register: https://www.biee.org/conference/research-conference-2025/

Important dates to note are the 31 March abstract submission deadline, the 31 July early registration deadline, and the 15 September closure of registrations.

Call for applications: January 15 – March 31, 2025

Find out more here.

gEneSys “Transforming Gendered Interrelations of Power and Inequalities in Transition Pathways to Sustainable Energy Systems” is a European project exploring all these facets of the gender-energy nexus with the aim of proposing pathways for a just and gender-equitable energy transition.

The shift to renewable energy is an important change for society, both in the Global North and South, allowing us to produce energy without relying on fossil fuels. By employing technologies that have the potential to revolutionize industries, enhance efficiency, and create new economic opportunities, sustainable energy addresses global challenges such as climate change and societal needs. As with every sociotechnical revolution, this shift brings along challenges affecting the different subsystems involved in the energy transition processes. Inequalities and drawbacks can be reproduced or exacerbated at the environmental, economic, social, and political level.

As with all technologies and policies that have a direct impact on people’s lives, considerable gender inequalities can also be observed in the energy transition – both in relation to the production of energy, its consumption and its political regulation. Energy Research and Innovation (R&I) workforce, the linchpin in fostering knowledge creation and technologies development, is still unbalanced. Women are significantly underrepresented in the field as researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, decision makers, and leaders. The average share of women in the R&I workforce in companies of the energy sector in the EU27 is 22% (CINEA 2024 and IEA).

Regarding energy consumption, gender inequalities along with other socioeconomic and cultural factors, influence citizens’ energy behaviours and the acceptance of renewable energy. These factors are identified as crucial for the uptake of energy technologies (International Energy Agency, 2020), but seldom included in technologically focused interventions. Women are also more often than men affected by energy poverty and underrepresented in the energy decision-making (EC 2024).Gender inequalities also intersect with the power imbalances between the Global North and Global South, meaning that the opportunities and challenges of a just transition are not the same everywhere. It is therefore necessary to deepen gender-energy nexus in the various forms it takes between the Global North and Global South, and within them.