• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Anne L Ryan (Oxford Energy Coordinator)
• Timing: Tuesdays at 5pm during term time
• Web Address: https://www.energy.ox.ac.uk/wordpress/oxford-energy-colloquia/

Tuesday 2 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Concentrated Solar Power and Thermal Energy Storage (Part of the Energy Colloquium series)
  Nick Jelley

Tuesday 16 June 2015 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The challenges and opportunities offered by renewables for Utility companies
  Catherine Bremner (Global Head of Environmental Sustainability at ANZ)

Tuesday 20 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Mobility of the Future
  Gernot Spiegelberg (Siemens)

Tuesday 27 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - What’s wrong with UK energy policy and how to fix it
  Prof. Dieter Helm (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Integrating Renewables - Challenges and Opportunities?
  Prof Malcolm McCulloch (Head of the University of Oxford’s Electrical Power Group and Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy), Dr Nick Eyre (Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy)

Tuesday 10 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Energy Future - Disruption and Data
  Paul Massara (Senior Energy Executive)

Tuesday 17 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Impact of Renewables
  Dr Phil Hare (Pöyry Management Consulting )

Tuesday 24 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research: New Paradigms for Next Generation Energy Storage
  Professor George Crabtree (University of Illinois)

Tuesday 1 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Negative Emissions - Distilling the Hope from the Hype
  Tim Kruger (James Martin Fellow, Oxford Geoengineering Programme)

Tuesday 26 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Rethinking hydro-power
  Dr Michael Mason (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Geothermal Energy: present and future
  Tony Batchelor (GeoScience Limited)

Tuesday 9 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios
  Marcus Stewart (National Grid)

Tuesday 16 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Decarbonising Heat
  Dr Nick Eyre (Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy)

Tuesday 23 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Resilience and risk in the energy transition - leveraging opportunities from demand flexibility
  TBA

Tuesday 1 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Challenges to the electricity network of a low carbon Cornwall
  Nigel Turvey (Western Power Distribution)

Tuesday 8 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Green Ammonia - a carbon free economy?
  Tim Hughes (Siemens)

Tuesday 3 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The outlook for global energy markets
  Spencer Dale (BP)

Tuesday 10 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Energising Smart Villages in Developing Countries
  John Holmes (Smart Villages)

Tuesday 17 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Regulating for energy markets in an evolving system
  Andrew Wright (Ofgem)

Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Lessons from the history of nuclear power in the UK
  Simon Taylor (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 31 May 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Brexit: does EU energy policy matter for the UK?
  Malcolm Keay (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)

Tuesday 28 June 2016 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Unpacking India’s Energy and Emissions Future
  Dr Radhika Khosla (Centre for Policy Research, Delhi)

Tuesday 11 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Lowest Cost Decarbonisation for the UK; the Critical Role of Carbon Capture and Storage
  Lord Oxburgh (Parliamentary Advisory Group on Carbon Capture and Storage)

Tuesday 18 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Tidal Lagoons: a corner stone of Britain’s electricity system
  Mark Shorrock (Tidal Lagoon Power)

Tuesday 25 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Moixa : distributed (home) energy storage and aggregate grid services
  Simon Daniel (Moixa)

Tuesday 1 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Nuclear energy and society, radiation and life – the evidence
  Prof Wade Allison (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Renewable Energy and the Smart Grid
  Dr Allan Miller (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Tuesday 15 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Future Nuclear – do we need Generation IV and/or Fusion?
  Steve Cowley

Tuesday 22 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Redox Flow Batteries for Large-Scale Storage
  Professor Charles Monroe (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Invisible energy policy – the role of materials and products in mitigating GHG emissions
  Professor John Barrett (University of Leeds)

Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - DONG Energy – from coal and oil to competitive offshore wind: the story of a global leader’s transformation
  Benj Sykes (DONG UK)

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Next Generation Grid Management
  Jens Madrian (Reactive Technologies)

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The lithium ion battery supply chain in an energy storage revolution - Impact on critical raw materials: lithium, graphite and cobalt
  Simon Moores (Benchmark Mineral Intelligence )

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Status and Challenges of the German Energiewende
  Andreas Löschel (University of Münster)

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Challenges of the Energy Transition
  Brian Davis (Shell)

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Driving the Technology For Driving the Driverless Cars
  Paul Newman (Professor, Department of Engineering Science)

Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sustainable energy initiatives in the community in Oxfordshire
  Barbara Hammond (CEO Low Carbon Hub)

Tuesday 7 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Solar cells made of crystalline silicon: successful mainstream thanks to intense research and development
  Pietro Altermatt (Principal Scientist, Trina Solar, China)

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Energy Research in Oxford - Highlights and Opportunities
  Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - "The cost of energy review" with Prof Dieter Helm
  Registration is required for this event.
  Professor Dieter Helm, CBE (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Finding the balance – New System Flexibility with Storage and Demand Response
  Dr Philipp Grunewald (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)

Tuesday 16 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Robert Llewellyn live... Fully Charged: Revolutions in Energy and Transport
  Robert Llewellyn

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Energy from our nearest star: commissioning a solar mini-farm in rural southern India.
  Professor Katherine Blundell (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Scientific, technical and economic factors in the production of ‘green’ ammonia
  Rene Banares-Alcantara (Reader in Engineering Science, University of Oxford), Edman Tsang (Head of Wolfson Catalysis Centre at the University of Oxford)

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - From Innovation to Series Production | BMW Group Electric Powertrain
  Andreas Loehrke (BMW Group)

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Energy - There is no talk today.
  TBA

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Chemical energy storage and how we can exploit it to improve energy conversion processes
  Ian S Metcalfe (Newcastle University)

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Direct air capture of CO2 - what’s it got to do with energy policy?
  Professor Myles Allen (Environmental Change Institute, University Of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - European and Global Challenges to the Future of Gas: unburnable or unaffordable?
  Jonathan Stern (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)

Tuesday 5 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Innovation and Governance of the GB Energy System: implications of decentralisation, decarbonisation, digitalisation and flexibility needs
  Professor Catherine Mitchell (University of Exeter)

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Taming the sun: innovations to harness solar energy and power the planet (Oxford Martin School)
  Varun Sivaram (Philip D. Reed Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, Georgetown University)

Tuesday 19 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Estimating Demand for Electric Vehicles in Low- and Middle-income Households (Joint OxCarre Seminar Series/INET))
  Dave Rapson (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UC Davis)

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Energy and happiness
  Dr Philipp Grunewald (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Understanding fossil fuel consumption growth: why history matters
  Simon Pirani (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Electricity demand management in a cool climate – a little theory and quite a lot of practice
  Dr Sarah Darby (ECI, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Could renewables completely replace fossil fuels?
  Jo Coleman

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Energy Christmas Drinks reception
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Oxford Energy Network

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Accelerating energy and low-carbon transitions
  Benjamin Sovacool (University of Sussex)

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Building Capacity in Energy Systems, the new interdisciplinary MSc for 2019/20
  David Wallom (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Update on development of the new Offshore Renewable Energy Supergen programme
  This has been re-scheduled from 16 October 2018.
  Professor Deborah Greaves (Professor of Ocean Engineering, University of Plymouth)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Cumulative emissions of carbon - a path to halting climate change?
  Dr Joeri Rogelj (OMS Fellow)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Is it really the end of internal combustion engines and petroleum in transport?
  Professor Gautam Kalghatgi

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - What’s happening in PV?
  Dr Chris Case (Chief Technology Officer, Oxford PV)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - How Environmentally Sustainable is Oxford University?
  Harriet Waters (Head of Environmental Sustainability, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Opportunity in crisis: Ten surprising ways to use CO2 to produce valuable products at the gigatonne scale
  Cameron Hepburn, Cameron Hepburn (Smith School, University of Oxford )

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Project LEO (Local Energy Oxfordshire)
  Booking is recommended for this talk.
  Prof Malcolm McCulloch (Head of the University of Oxford’s Electrical Power Group and Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy)

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Catalytic Activation of Carbon Dioxide to make Polymers and Fuels
  Charlotte K Williams (Oxford Chemistry)

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Energy sufficiency: living well, within the limits. Dr Tina Fawcett, ECI, CREDS
  Dr Tina Fawcett (CREDS, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Are UK attachments to nuclear power at least partly a military romance?
  Andy Stirling (SPRU University of Sussex), Phil Johnstone (SPRU University of Sussex)

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Energy Superhub Oxford (ESO)
  Profess David Howey

Tuesday 18 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Empowering the great energy transition while fossil fuels are still abundant: The U.S. challenge
  TBA
• 17:00 - Empowering the great energy transition while fossil fuels are still abundant: The U.S. challenge
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Integrating Renewable Energy: Opportunities and Challenges
  Dr Helen Gavin (ECI, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Nature’s chemical energy circuits: taking inspiration from hydrogen in biology
  Professor Kylie Vincent (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - A History of the Transitions in Energy Service Demand
  Roger Fouquet (LSE)

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - A Win-Win for everyone? Demand-side Flexibility and People's Activities
  Professor Jacopo Torriti (University of Reading)

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Net Zero: The role of domestic building energy efficiency
  Tadj Oreszczyn (UCL)

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - An Empirical Analysis of the Fiscal Incidence of Renewable Energy Support in the European Union
  Dr Lawrence Haar (Brookes University, Oxford)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Climbing the energy services ladder: transitions in India’s urban energy consumption amid a changing global climate
  Dr Radhika Khosla (Centre for Policy Research, Delhi)

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - POSTPONED to 2 June | Are women to blame for high demand?
  Dr Philipp Grünewald (ECI, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - POSTPONED to 26 May | Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Design for Offshore Wind Turbines
  Professor Byron Byrne (Engineering Dept., University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The limits of energy sufficiency: A review of the evidence for rebound effects and negative spillovers from behavioural change - this talk will be delivered online visit www.energy.ox.ac.uk for more information
  Professor Steven R Sorrell (SPRU, University of Sussex)

Tuesday 12 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Postponed to Michelmas Term 2020: Objectively assessing the (in)compatibility of power assets with the Paris Agreement and the SDGs.
  Ben Caldecott (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)

Tuesday 26 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Design for Offshore Wind Turbines | Now online | Register @ www.energy.ox.ac.uk/colloquia
  Now online | Register @ www.energy.ox.ac.uk/colloquia
  Professor Byron Byrne (Director, EPSRC CDT in Renewable Energy Marine Structures, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - "What can we learn about energy use from activity patterns during a lockdown?" - Now online | Register @ www.energy.ox.ac.uk/colloquia
  Now online | Register @ www.energy.ox.ac.uk/colloquia
  Dr Philipp Grunewald (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)

Tuesday 16 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Project LEO (Local Energy Oxfordshire) – How are Local Networks Enabling the Energy Transition Online | Register @ www.energy.ox.ac.uk/colloquia
  Now online | Register @ www.energy.ox.ac.uk/colloquia
  Melanie Bryce (SSEN)

Wednesday 14 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Energy and the Anthropocene
  This event is part of a student lecture series. Please go to www.energy.ox.ac.uk events for for further information.
  Professor Nick Eyre (Environmental Change Institute)

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Objectively assessing the (in)compatibility of power assets with the Paris Agreement and the SDGs
  This is an online event. Please register to sign up at www.energy.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Ben Caldecott (University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise)

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - How do new things spread? The diffusion of digital low-carbon innovations
  This is an online event. Please register to sign up at www.energy.ox.ac.uk.
  Dr Charlie Wilson (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UEA)

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The road to net-zero: what we need to get right
  This is an online event. Please register to sign up at www.energy.ox.ac.uk.
  Dr Juliet Davenport (CEO, Good Energy)

Tuesday 17 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Energy access and off-grid electrification in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
  This is an online event. To sign up register through www.energy.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Susann Stritzke (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Towards just transitions to low-carbon mobility
  This is an online event. To sign up register through www.energy.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit University of Oxford )

Tuesday 1 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Net Zero and beyond: creating a carbon storage market
  This is an online event. Please register to sign up at www.energy.ox.ac.uk.
  Professor Stuart Haszeldine (University of Edinburgh)