Energy matters for all: from global actors to active consumers

The BIEE is delighted to be holding its next Research Conference at Worcester College in Oxford on the 20th and 21st September 2023.

Delegates will experience a full two-day programme with high profile guest speaker plenary sessions, parallel sessions featuring the latest research, policy and industry analysis, as well as our informal debate, ‘dialogue’ and poster sessions. In addition, there will be special sessions on diversity and skills and a presentation showcase for students and young energy professionals.

BIEE conferences are nationally and internationally renowned for the quality of speakers they attract, for their open, productive discussion and debate and for the diverse range of participants from energy industry, finance, academia and government, as well as significant number of postgraduate students. It is the interactions between participants from across these groups that makes the conference so special.

Theme

Energy matters for all: from global actors to active consumers

We are at a time of transformation in the energy sector, with calls for action at all scales from geopolitics to households. Mounting prices have brought energy economics to the top of the agenda for individuals, organisations and countries, while dramatic weather and high-profile events have brought climate change from the background to the foreground for decision-makers. 

What is our pathway through the transition? Can we emerge from the current crises heading for an energy system that is not only zero carbon but serves all customers better?

BIEE’s biennial Research Conference offers an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of current work on these issues, hear from experts and join the debate on pathways for the future.  At this pivotal time it is more important than ever that academic, business and policy experts are in close contact and the two days will offer an unrivalled opportunity to speak directly to specialists across these three groups.

Plenary sessions will look at who is acting – and who is not – on global, national, local and individual scales and at the potential scenarios for the future that we face. They will draw on the consequences of events such as the Covid lockdown, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent reshaping of the global energy industry and its end use.

In-depth papers over two days will look at themes including: energy trade and markets;  trends in demand and the response to calls for action by customers; scenarios, pathways and the just transition; global and local resources and the externalities of their use; innovation in technology, finance and policy; and new flows of energy and carbon.

We will look specifically at the experience of the winter of 2022/23 and what we have learned about responding to the threat of rising prices and blackouts.

Sponsors

Gold Sponsor

National Grid Ventures is the competitive division of National Grid plc, one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world. It operates outside of National Grid’s core regulated businesses in the UK and US where it develops, operates and invests in energy projects, technologies and partnerships to accelerate the development of our clean energy future. National Grid Ventures’ diverse portfolio of flexible, low carbon and renewable energy businesses across the UK, Europe and US includes sub-sea electricity interconnectors, liquefied natural gas, battery storage, wind and solar power.

Silver Sponsors

bp’s economics team produces the Energy Outlook, which makes projections to 2050 and beyond From 1952 until 2022, bp’s economics team also informed the energy economics community through its Statistical Review of World Energy, which provided historic data on world energy markets.

Securing our long-term energy supply, bringing down bills and halving inflation. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) is focused on the energy portfolio from the former Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Our responsibilities - delivering security of energy supply - ensuring properly functioning energy markets - encouraging greater energy efficiency - seizing the opportunities of net zero to lead the world in new green industries

NERA Economic Consulting is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges.  For more than six decades, we have been creating strategies, studies, reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations for government authorities and the world’s leading law firms and corporations. We bring academic rigor, objectivity, and real-world industry experience to issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.

Oxford Economics is the world’s foremost independent economic advisory firm. We enable intelligent and responsible decision-making through the provision of timely data-driven economic insights and solutions our clients trust. Our unique capabilities provides deep knowledge and actionable insights that support effective business decisions on climate and sustainability risks and opportunities, to help propel your business towards a green future.

We have been developing possible visions of the future since the 1970s, helping generations of Shell leaders explore ways forward and make better decisions. Shell Scenarios ask “what if?” questions encouraging leaders to consider events that may only be remote possibilities, and stretch their thinking. Our scenarios also help governments, academia and business in understanding possibilities and uncertainties ahead.

Supporter

CCUS 2023: Springboard to Net Zero 17-18 October 2023 is the flagship event from the Carbon Capture and Storage Association. Attracting both a UK and international audience, this year’s event will provide attendees with the latest developments in this rapidly evolving sector. The conference will take place over two days, with a mix of plenary and breakout sessions covering topics such as; CCUS business models, market frameworks, CCUS supply chains, carbon removals, capture and storage permitting, CCS-enabled hydrogen, networks and developments in the North Sea.