Day 1 Monday 3rd July 2017
The Past: Retrospective Analysis
10.00: Registration tea and coffee
10.45: Opening Remarks (Roundabout Room)
Neil Strachan, UCL: welcome to London, to the wholeSEM consortium, and to our 4th Annual Conference.
11.00: Keynote Speaker (Roundabout Room)
John Loughhead, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
11.30: Retrospective Analysis Discussion Session (Roundabout Room)
Keynote speaker and key panel members discuss the energy modelling-policy interface and insights from the first 15 years of the UK’s low carbon transition.
Panel Members
Brian O’ Gallachoir, Energy Policy and Modelling Research, University College Cork
Gert Jan Kramer, Sustainable Energy Supply Systems, Utrecht University
Heather Haydock, Ricardo Energy & Environment
The Present: Current Analysis
12.00: PhD student rapid fire presentations session 1 (Roundabout Room) Doctoral students are invited to deliver insights from their research as two minute elevator pitches plus Q+A
Pablo Carvajal Sarzosa, UCL
Selma Causevic, Delft University of Technology
João Gorenstein Dedecca, Delft University of Technology
Audrey Dobbins, University of Stuttgart
Alice Gunn, University of Reading
Yingjian Guo, Imperial College London
Emma Hanley, University College Cork
Verena Heinisch, Chalmers University of Technology
Francisca Jalil Vega, Imperial College London
12.30 - 13.30: LUNCH
13.30 - 15.30:
Parallel Speaker Sessions
Parallel sessions with a focus on current energy modelling topics
Session 1: Household energy demand: Exploring the Intersection of Technology, Practices and Policy (Roundabout Room)
Chair: Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey
Rapporteur: Maria Xenitidou, University of Surrey
Speaker A: Russell Hitchings, UCL
Speaker B: Chris Jones, University of Sheffield
Speaker C: Kersty Hobson, Cardiff University
Speaker D: Kavin Narasimhan, University of Surrey
Session 2: Energy, Economy and Technological Transitions (Cyber Room)
Chair and Rapporteur: Ilkka Keppo, UCL
Speaker A: Will Usher, ITRC, University of Oxford
Speaker B: Enrica De Cian, FEEM
Speaker C: Uwe Remme, IEA
Speaker D: Sam Foster, Element Energy
Session 3: Energy, Resources and Wider Impacts (Global Room)
Chair: Julian Allwood, University of Cambridge
Rapporteur: Dennis Konadu, University of Cambridge
Speaker A: Kira West & Araceli Fernandez, International Energy Agency
Speaker B: Peter Levi, University of Cambridge
Speaker C: Fabian Wagner, IIASA
Speaker D: Abhishek Shivakumar, KTH
Session 4: Operation and Design of Energy Systems Infrastructure (Cloud Room)
Chair and Rapporteur: Goran Strbac, Imperial University
Speaker A: Phil Taylor, National Centre for Energy Systems Integration, Newcastle University
Speaker B: Erik Delarue, University of Leuven
Speaker C: Giulia De Zotti, Technical University of Denmark
Speaker D: Florent Le Strat, EDF Research and Development Group
15.30 - 16.00: COFFEE BREAK
16.00: PhD student rapid fire presentations session 2 (Roundabout Room) Doctoral students are invited to deliver insights from their research as two minute elevator pitches plus Q+A
Erin Johnson, Imperial College London
Martin Klein, Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics
Florian Knobloch, Radboud University Nijmegen
Vicky Papaioannou, University of Reading
Neha Patankar, NC State University
Dmytro Romanchenko, Chalmers University of Technology
Erik Sandberg, Luleå University of Technology
Kristoffer Steen Andersen, Technical University of Denmark
Jacopo Tattini, Technical University of Denmark
16.30: Presentation of the Top Down Integration Project (Roundabout Room)
Introduction: Marianne Zeyringer, UCL
Case Study 1: Social Practices: Kavin Narasimhan, University of Surrey
Case Study 2: Flexibility: Marko Aunedi, Imperial University
Case Study 3: NEXUS: James Price, UCL
17.30: Closing Remarks
18.00: Networking Drinks (M by Moncalm Urban Coterie Lounge )
Day 2 Tuesday 4th July 2017
The Future: New Approaches
9.20: Opening Session (Roundabout Room) Neil Strachan, UCL: Recap of Day 1 and welcome to Day 2
9.30 - 11.30: Modelling Cafe's
Focus groups to scope out ideas for new questions to be answered by models in the future.
How to best analyse/model...
Group 1: (Roundabout Room)
What carbon price (how high and how long) is need to mainstream new low carbon power generation, transport and heating technologies?
Facilitator: Florian Habermacher, Aurora Energy Research
Group 2: (Global Room)
Who invests in strategic new energy infrastructures?
Facilitator: Evelina Trutnevyte, ETH Zurich
Group 3: (Cloud Room)
Residential consumers’ change in energy demand due to the introduction of new energy consuming technologies?
Facilitator: Joe DeCarolis, UNC
Group 4: (Silicon Room)
How to keep options open for low carbon heating while ensuring zero emissions in the future?
Facilitator: Katy Roelich, University of Leeds
Group 5: (Tech City Room)
Specific industrial sectors with very few decarbonisation options?
Facilitator: Chris Bataille, ISDIR
Group 6: (Cyber Room)
How consistently government energy policies will be maintained for?
Facilitator: David McCollum, IIASA
11.40: Facilitators to report back findings
Facilitators
12.30 - 1.30: LUNCH
13.30: New Approaches Discussion Session
(Roundabout Room)
Discussion session with key panel members on new approaches to energy modelling, the next big idea and new perspectives.
Panel Members
Catherine Bale, Energy Research Institute, University of Leeds
Emma Harrison, Systems Integration, Energy Systems Catapult
Amy Mount, Greener UK Unit, Green Alliance
Liz Varga, Complex Systems Research Centre, Cranfield University
14.30: Closing Remarks and PhD Student Prizes
15.15 - 17.15: wholeSEM Advisory Board (by invitation only)