Seminars

In this seminar, Wageningen and Eindhoven University researchers Sanneke Kloppenburg and Nick Verkade will present the overarching research proposal and their plans for fieldwork in the UK.  They will also reflect on some of the first findings from their interviews and document study on community energy storage as a distinct storage mode in the UK. Storage is often identified as a key…

Passenger travel is going through a time of great transformation in the United States as well as in other countries. Young adults ("millennials"), in particular, are reported to behave (and travel) differently from previous generations at the same stage in life: they postpone the time they obtain a driver's license, often choose to live in urban locations and not to own a car, drive less even…

What we use electricity for has not been of great concern to system operators in the past. With a large fleet of flexible fossil fuel plants it was sufficient to roughly predict demand and then provide as and when needed. Under this paradigm it makes no difference whether electricity is used to provide a time specific service (like viewing Coronation Street), something that could be…

Seminar with John Barrett, Leeds University, 16 December 2015 The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) provides robust evidence demonstrating the need to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) rapidly to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. The UK Government defines its contribution towards this goal as achieving an 80% reduction in GHG emissions by 2050 from a 1990…