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Join us in Coventry, 9-11 September 2025, for our next annual Faraday Institution Conference!

The Faraday Institution are delighted to invite you to attend our Annual Conference 2025. This year’s event is hosted by the University of Warwick, taking place Tuesday 9 to Thursday 11 September, and we're expecting over 500 attendees to participate in our largest science dissemination conference to date. We aim to once again convene the electrochemical energy storage community of academics, industry organisations, policy makers and funders once again from the UK and internationally. The invite is open to all working within this innovative community.

The conference theme for 2025 is "Energising the UK Battery Ecosystem" with a programme curated to disseminate the latest battery research from around the world and raise the visibility of UK scientific excellence in energy storage. In particular, we'll be shining a spotlight on partnership and collaboration, bridging the interface between academia, industry and policy for a net zero future. Keynote speakers include Professor Sir Stanley Whittingham, 2019 Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry, and Professor Shirley Meng from University of Chicago. 

Our call for abstracts closes soon, Monday 24^th March at 23:59 GMT. We're looking for abstracts for posters and talks to help shape our programme - you can submit abstracts for one or more of the themes below:

• Active Materials & Supply Chain
• Advanced Characterisation & Degradation
• Advances in Recycling & Reuse
• Battery Modelling
• Battery Safety & Abuse
• Electrode Manufacturing
• New Battery Chemistries & Interfaces

Held across 3 days, it will encompass multiple parallel sessions, poster sessions, exhibition stands, ample networking opportunities and more. We hope to see you there!

Register. Submit an abstract for a talk or poster (closes 24 March).

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.