Breakfast Briefings/Evening Lectures
Every year, the EI holds a series of Breakfast Briefings and Evening Lectures on a variety of current topics in the industry. These traditionally run from March to November.
Each briefing or lecture is delivered by an expert who will provide an in-depth account of their activities, outputs, challenges and opportunities. Briefings and lectures include a 30 minute question and answer session that enables delegates to put questions and views to the key players.
Venue
Breakfast Briefings and Evening Lectures are held at the Energy Institute, 61 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7AR.
Format
Each briefing or lecture lasts approximately 1 ½ hours. Registration for the briefings is at 07.30 for an 8.00 start. Briefings conclude at 09.00. Registration for the lectures is at 16.30 for a 17.00 start. Lectures conclude at 18.00. Evening Lectures are held under Chatham House rules.
Fees
Evening Lectures are free for all to attend. This year the lectures are sponsored by Energy Technologies Institute.
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Decarbonising heat: evolution or revolution?
This breakfast briefing will invite a discussion that begins with the needs of the energy user in this forthcoming transition and moves on to explore the criticalities and dependencies of the options available to decarbonise heat.
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Consumer responses to electric vehicles evening lecture
Plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) could contribute substantially to reductions in transport CO2 emissions but widespread uptake will require positive responses from mass market consumers. This lecture will look at the problems in estimating the potential uptake of EVs, since most consumer drivers have had no experience of them. It will also focus on the recent Energy Technologies Institute study which used a novel methodology to overcome these difficulties, involving qualitative and quantitative research.
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Fuel poverty - is it out of control?
This breakfast briefing will consider the growth in fuel poverty since government set targets for its eradication, the nature of the fuel poverty challenge that faces policy makers, what difference the Hills report on fuel poverty should make and how poverty alleviation schemes, energy efficiency programmes and retail market reforms will all be necessary to tackle the growth of fuel poverty
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Tidal stream technology - harnessing the power of the sea evening lecture
This lecture will look at the technologies developed by Tidal Generation, a wholly owned subsidiary of power systems company Rolls-Royce, to exploit the predictable, sustainable and clean power of the world's oceans. It will focus particularly on the development of their tidal turbine which is on test off the Orkney Islands and successfully supplying electricity to the National Grid.
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Low temperature thermal storage as an enabling technology for efficient cities evening lecture
Heat pumps are viewed as a key technology for heating and cooling buildings in future. Generating electricity with CHP at district level generates surplus heat this talk will review a proposal to link all this together at the 1851 South Kensington Estate as an example of how existing cities might move towards reduced carbon consumption.
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