April 24, 2024

Energy Transitions 2016

Organization:
Chatham House - The Royal Institute of International Affairs
Location:
London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Start Date:
November 28, 2016
End Date:
November 29, 2016
Description
Difficulties and inefficiencies in calculating energy supply and demand have led to overinvestment across a number of regions and sectors. Coupled with ongoing market volatilities, this has threatened to inhibit investment and in doing so presents a clear obstacle to successful and sustainable energy transitions. In other areas, lack of clear government policy and/or market incentives has led to a chronic lack of investment resulting in lack of energy and unstable prices. This is compounded by uncertainties over the strategic direction for the sector as policy-makers continue to balance the ‘energy trilemma’, with the need to ensure secure energy supplies, meet rising demand and curb emissions all seemingly competing. 

However, recent advancements in technology, alongside rapidly expanding data gathering and processing capacities, now present the opportunity to increase system efficiencies and more accurately forecast supply and demand. How can business leaders and policy-makers create frameworks to take advantage of these developments to more accurately target investment and achieve successful energy transitions, while reconciling conflicting political drivers to create coherent energy strategies? This conference will aim to assess:

- The status of  energy transitions globally;
- The role of big data;
- The role of regulation in transition finance and investment;
- The role of political structures in determining transition success;
- Demand-side technologies, distribution networks and decentralization;
- The most significant disruptive technologies including storage options;
- The ongoing status of hydrocarbon investment;
- Innovations in energy transition finance;    

The Chatham House Rule 
To enable as open a debate as possible, this conference will be held under the Chatham House Rule.

Additional information

Prices:
BEFORE 30 SEPT - Commercial organizations: GBP 1335
BEFORE 30 SEPT - Government departments: GBP 810
BEFORE 30 SEPT - NGO / Academic: GBP 490
AFTER 30 SEPT - Commercial organizations: GBP 1535
AFTER 30 SEPT - Government departments: GBP 920
AFTER 30 SEPT - NGO / Academic: GBP 595

Category: Conferences | Energy and Environment | Energy

Speakers: Liu Zhenya, Heather Allen, Poppy Allonby, Antonella Battaglini, Martha Broad, David Capper, Alicia Carrasco, Trisha Curtis, Antony Froggatt, Patrick Graichen, Seb Henbest, Simon Hill, David Hobbs, Anthony Hobley, Tomas Kåberger, Julia King, Dr Ajay Mathur, Klaus Mohn, Philip New, Paddy Padmanathan, Riccardo Puliti, Professor Paul Stevens, Neil Strachan, Laszlo Varro

Time: 9:30 am - 1:30 pm

Venue details: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom

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