Agenda

10:00 – 10:15 

Registration

Tea/coffee available

10:15 – 10:25 

Welcome by Professor Tim Green, Professor of Power Engineering and Principal Investigator of the IDLES Programme

10:25 – 10:55 

Transition towards low-carbon residential heating - progress on the large-scale household survey and results

Speakers: Dr Aruna Sivakumar (Reader in Consumer Demand Modelling and Urban Systems) and Dr Jacek Pawlak (Research Fellow in the Urban Systems Laboratory and Centre for Transport Studies)

10:55 – 11:25 

How far should the UK go with negative emissions technologies?

Speakers: Professor Adam Hawkes (Professor of Energy Systems) and Dr Semra Bakkaloglu (Research Associate at the Sustainable Gas Institute)

11:25 – 11:45 

Quickfire poster presentations

11:45 – 12:30 

Keynote - How digital technologies will help tackle the energy challenges

Speaker: Carolina Tortora, Head of Digital Transformation and Innovation Strategy, National Grid ESO

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch and poster session

13:30 - 14:25  

Panel discussion: Enabling the UK to become the Saudi Arabia of wind? The cost of green hydrogen from offshore wind

Presentation by Dr Malte Jansen, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex

Panellists:

• Dr Wei He, Principal Engineer, Equinor
• Abigail Dombey, Energy and Sustainability Engineer, Net Zero Associates
• Gniewomir Flis, Senior Advisor, Kaya Partners
• Chair: Professor Tim Green, Professor of Power Engineering and Principal Investigator of the IDLES Programme

14:25 – 14:45 

System-driven design of flexible nuclear power plant configurations with thermal energy storage

Speaker: Dr Marko Aunedi (Advanced Research Fellow)

14:45 – 15:15 

Do we need more efficient heating technologies in the future?

Speakers: Dr Andreas Olympios (Research Associate in the Clean Energy Processes Laboratory) and Dr Paul Sapin (Energy Division Leader in the Clean Energy Processes Laboratory)

15:15 - 15:25

Refreshment break

What should future energy markets look like?

Speakers: Dr Mirabelle Muuls, Associate Professor in Economics and Professor Goran Strbac, Professor in Energy Systems

Quickfire session to highlight open outputs and collaborations from IDLES

16:25 – 16:30 

Closing remarks by Professor Tim Green, Professor of Power Engineering and Princial Investigator of the IDLES Programme

16:30 – 18:00 

Drinks and canapes served in the Senior Common Room