Tuesday 15th November:

Time 

Session 

10:00 – 10:30 

Registration

Tea/coffee available

10:30 – 10:45 

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

10:45 – 11:30 

The UK’s rapid transition to low carbon, low cost electricity

Speaker: Dr Iain Staffell (Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Energy Systems)

11:30 – 12:15 

Agent- and activity-based modelling of energy demand: Representing the heterogeneities of human behaviour

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)

12:15 – 12:45 

Quickfire poster introductions

12:45 – 14:00 

Posters & networking lunch

14:00 - 14:45  

Keynote - Strategic Innovation Fund and Energy System Innovation

 Manu Ravishankar, Innovation Lead - Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund, Innovate UK

14:45 – 15:30 

Are spatially explicit models necessary to determine the cost-optimal decarbonisation strategy for energy-intensive industry? An example of green ethylene.

Speakers: Professor Nilay Shah (Professor of Process Systems Engineering) and Ms Maria Yliruka (Research Postgraduate in the Department of Chemical Engineering)

15:30 – 16:15 

Characterisation of current and disruptive technologies for their inclusion in whole-energy system models

Speakers: Professor Christos Markides (Professor of Clean Energy Technologies) and Mr Andreas Olympios (Research Postgraduate in the Clean Energy Processes Laboratory)

16:15 – 16:20 

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

16:20 – 18:00 

Tours of the Hitachi-Imperial Digital Energy Demonstrator in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department

Networking reception in the Great Hall

18:00 – 21:00 

Dinner in Queen's Tower Rooms

Wednesday 16th November:

08:50 – 09:10

Registration

Tea/coffee available 

09:10 – 09:15 

Welcome by Professor Tim Green

09:15 – 10:00 

Keynote - Role of the Energy Industry in Net Zero

Rebecca Rosling (Head of Smart Customers R&D at EDF Energy)

10:00 – 10:45

Understanding the influence of weather and teleworking on the energy consumption patterns at the household level

Speakers: Dr Mirabelle Muûls (Assistant Professor in Economics) and Dr Shefali Khanna (Research Associate in Energy and Environmental Economics)

10:45 – 11:30 

Addressing resilience and uncertainties in energy system operation

Speakers: Professor Goran Strbac (Professor of Energy Systems) and Mr Cormac O'Malley (Research Postgraduate in the Control and Power Group)

11:30 – 11:45 

Tea/coffee break

11:45 – 12:30 

Panel discussion – Energy systems for a changing world

Speakers: Rebecca Rosling (Head of Smart Customers R&D at EDF Energy), Alec Waterhouse (Head of Modelling at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), Professor Nilay Shah, Dr Mirabelle Muûls

Moderator: Professor Tim Green

12:30 – 12:45 

Closing remarks by Professor Tim Green

12:45 – 14:00 

Posters & networking lunch

14:00 

End of conference