Energy Seminar - Week 5: The UK energy demand observatory - how Oxford helps to understand and accelerate changes in energy demand
CANCELLED: owing to UCU strike action.
Summary: The way we use energy will have to undergo fundamental changes during the transition towards a net-zero world. Many of the technical solutions are known: insulate homes, electrify heating and transport, deploy smarter, more efficient and flexible appliances. But how well do they work in practice? Tracking the impact requires careful observation and robust control groups.
Oxford leads the technology and social science of a new £8m UKRI investment to establish an energy demand observatory, which will track energy use in real households.

Speaker: Phil Grunewald has been with Oxford University since 2013. During this time he developed new approaches to understand how, why and when we use energy. With the help of an EPSRC Fellowship he was able to move from asking people to fill in paper diaries and attach his electricity recorders under their meter, to fully automated processes using smart meter data, IoT sensors and mobile apps. UKRI have now awarded a programme grant to build a national energy observatory for which Phil is the Oxford PI and technical lead.

Before joining the Department of Engineering Science in 2020, Phil was at the Environmental Change Institute, where he led the Oxford Energy Network and the Flexibility theme of the Energy Program.

In 2009 Phil was awarded an interdisciplinary UKERC scholarship for his PhD at Imperial College London on the future role of grid storage.
Prior to academia, Phil was a Marie Curie Fellow, developed the worlds first EUV lithography tool for Intel, laser processes for the photovoltaic industry and cycled round the world.
Date: 14 February 2023, 17:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Hilary 2023)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Environmental Change Institute, Atmosphere Room,OUCE, Oxford
Speaker: Dr Philipp Grunewald (University of Oxford, Dept of Engineering)
Organising department: Environmental Change Institute
Organisers: Anne L Ryan (ECI, University of Oxford), Oxford Energy Network
Organiser contact email address: info@energy.ox.ac.uk
Host: Robin Morris (Convenor Oxford Energy)
Part of: Oxford Energy Seminar Series 2022-2023
Booking required?: Not required
Booking url: http://bitly.ws/A4AK
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editors: Anne Ryan, Robin Morris, Karen Parry