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SUMMARY:Decarbonisation of Transport - part 1\, an ERA perspective
DESCRIPTION:During this webinar Faye McAnulla gave an overview of the project Decarbonising Heavy Transport in The Midlands: H2GVMIDS\, Thomas Steffen (Loughborough University) talked about the contribution Electric Vehicles (EVs) can make towards a net zero future\, and Frank Tutu (EDF R&D UK Centre) presented on how EDF is working towards decarbonising transport. \nElectric Vehicles as a Key Enabler for the Decarbonisation of Our Electricity Grid: Dr. Thomas Steffen (Loughborough University).       \nThis presentation originates from the Future of Technology Series\, and it discusses the contribution Electric Vehicles (EVs) can make towards a net zero future. Renewable generation is notoriously volatile\, and smart charging of EVs offers a simple yet effective opportunity to shift the charging load to periods of excess generation. Thus\, smart charging provides private and public benefits\, and this research explores how both can be aligned. Because of the limited capacity\, EVs will only be able to provide daily or weekly storage\, while seasonal flexibility could be achieved via hydrogen storage in combination with hybrid vehicles. \nHy4Fleets: Frank Tutu (EDF R&D UK Centre). \nHy4Fleets was a feasibility study project that developed and tested the value for an assessment tool to support decision-making and encourage the transition of diesel-powered heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) to hydrogen fuel cell fleets. The project’s main goal was to address the gap in technical and economic insights on the hydrogen switching process that presents a barrier to the uptake of hydrogen vehicles by fleet operators.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/decarbonisation-of-transport-part-1-an-era-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Whistle Stop Tour of Energy Research Happening Across the Midlands
DESCRIPTION:During our Christmas Special ERA Net Zero Heroes webinar we showcase all the fantastic energy research that is happening at the ERA partner universities. Our partners gave a brief summary of the research\, innovation and commercial developments in green energy that have taken place at their institution during 2021. \n\n 
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/whistle-stop-tour-of-energy-research-happening-across-the-midlands/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T133000
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CREATED:20230324T130035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T130035Z
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SUMMARY:Making smart local energy systems happen
DESCRIPTION:Christoph Mazur from Engie was joined by Tobiloba Elusakin from Trilateral Research and Amruta Joshi from the University of Birmingham to discuss the implementation of smart energy systems. Christoph Mazur is Project Lead of Zero Carbon Rugeley\, a project to produce an innovative design for a town-wide Smart Local Energy System (SLES) including the former Rugeley Power Station site. This project will demonstrate how carbon emissions and energy costs can be reduced whilst also providing a boost for local regeneration. Dr Amruta Joshi from University of Birmingham specialises in supporting businesses with needs in renewable energy\, optimisation of energy storage for different applications\, and energy efficiency analysis. Her talk highlights smart energy system implementation strategies for SMEs with exemplar case studies; reemphasising the contribution of SMEs in the UK’s action on climate change and hence\, the need to address their challenges. Dr Tobi Elusakin is a Research Analyst within the Applied Research and Innovation (ARI) team at Trilateral. During his talk he discusses the EERA data project that proposed and is implementing a data framework to help assess the impacts of energy efficiency investments by taking into account all the relevant building-stock\, energy\, environmental and socio-economic data in order to assist local government administrators in assessing and prioritising energy efficiency measures in the modernisation and renovation of buildings.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/making-smart-local-energy-systems-happen/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T133000
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SUMMARY:Black Researcher Special
DESCRIPTION:As part of ERA’s Black History Month Celebrations\, we have invited two of our black researchers\, Eugene Boadu (Keele University) and Dr Shandelle Steadman (Cranfield University) to talk about the exciting research they are carrying out. Check out the recording of their talks below: \n Would you like to trade your energy?\nDr Shandelle Steadman\nAs energy markets are becoming more decentralised\, energy trading platforms are emerging as potential tools to facilitate the coordination of energy consumption and generation. Shandelle’s presentation will provide an overview of her research on the factors that affect indivial consumer’s and prosumer’s willingness to participate in a peer-to-peer energy trading platform. Focusing on a set of three European countries\, it disentangles the effectiveness of both economic and non-economic incentives in fostering energy trade via intermediate platforms.  Check out the talk Shandelle gave as part of the ERA Black History Month Net Zero Heroes Special below: \n\nClimate Change mitigation and adaptation: Role of multinational enterprise subsidiaries in sub-Saharan Africa\nEugene Boadu\nClimate change continues to pose risk to humanity. Continents such as Africa is vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. The project aims to examine\, at a granular level\, the strategies used by multinational subsidiaries in mitigating and adapting to climate change within the context of developing countries. Empirical data will be obtained through the interview of relevant officials in selected subsidiaries in Ghana. It is hoped that the outcome of the research will provide policy and academic literature on climate change mitigation and adaptation. Check out the talk Eugene gave as part of the ERA Black History Month Net Zero Heroes Special below: \n\n 
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/black-researcher-special/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Post Doc Appreciation Week Special: The Life of a Postdoc!
DESCRIPTION:Our speakers Dr Barton Chen (University of Exeter)\,  and Dr Sarah Yasir (Cranfield University) provide an insight into the variety of research being carried out by postdoc across the ERA network. They give a short overview of their research\, outline what they do as a post doc and how this differs from when they were a PhD student\, both from a research and more personal perspective. \nDr Jorge López Ordovas (kalfrisa) talks about Reseacrh in Academia and Industry.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/post-doc-appreciation-week-special/
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes,Past Events,Webinars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lennie Foster":MAILTO:L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210629
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210630
DTSTAMP:20260403T212058
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SUMMARY:Hydrogen Storage in Caverns Event 2021
DESCRIPTION:Hydrogen Storage in Caverns – a vital component in accelerating to net-zeroThis event outlines the vital importance that hydrogen storage in caverns can play in the push towards net-zero. \nTowards Net Zero\nEnergy storage is going to be absolutely central to the timely achievement of Net Zero. That storage will have to be applied over a vast spectrum of times ranging from fractions of a second to many months – and possibly more than a year. Different sets of technology excel at different parts of that time spectrum and for very long duration storage that can charge and/or discharge continuously for weeks at a time\, the clear technology favourites are based on storing fuels. Within that subset\, storing pure hydrogen in caverns stands out as being the leading candidate because the transformations from primary energy to hydrogen and back to usable energy are so relatively straightforward. This event set out to elucidate some of the key challenges involved in deploying the necessary amounts of hydrogen storage in caverns. \nEvent summary\nThe event began with a keynote review of just how much hydrogen storage we are likely to need in the UK – many tens of TWh worth and possibly more. The workshop proceeded to examine how the hydrogen storage blends with largescale compressed air energy storage and other thermo-mechanical energy storage solutions much better suited to shorter (medium-duration) timescales than the hydrogen and to a first order\, the same amount of energy will pass through hydrogen storage as through the medium-duration storage. The latter may be around one order of magnitude smaller in capacity than the hydrogen storage but is cycled much more frequently. Subsequently\, a talk examined what potential there is in the UK for making salt caverns to store hydrogen – and in short there is much more capacity than we will need to use by 2050. \nThe second session of the event covered the description of the near-term project\, HyNet which aims to decarbonise an industrial cluster in the north-west of England around Chester and the related project HySecure which explores how to create new hydrogen cavern storage. A short commentary followed noting that the work required to push hydrogen gas into a cavern can be several hundredths of the chemical energy contained within that hydrogen. This second session closed with a fascinating insight into social acceptance aspects of the hydrogen economy. \nThe third and final session comprised two more technical contributions: the first outlining why hydrogen presents very singular challenges for compression and expansion machinery and the second noting the connections between hydrogen and several aspects of Rolls-Royce business – Small Modular Reactors\, large reciprocating engines for power\, PEM fuel cells and\, of course\, aerospace. The event ended with a lively panel session containing\, among other things\, a near-unanimous consensus that the UK should be aiming to implement 2 TWh of hydrogen storage capacity in caverns every year between now and 2050!” \nPlease remember to bookmark this event page for your future reference \nThis event was kindly sponsored by\n \n \nEvent Programme\n10:00 – Welcome: Prof. Seamus Garvey\, University of Nottingham \nWatch the video of the first session here \n10:10 – The need for long duration electricity storage and options available: Prof. Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith\, University of Oxford \n10:50 – The optimal mix of hydrogen storage and compressed air energy storage: Dr. Bruno Cardenas\, University of Nottingham \n11:10 – UK Geological Resource suitable for hydrogen storage: Dr. Ed. Hough\, British Geological Survey \n11:40 – BREAK \n11:50 – HyNet: Project overview and converting Keuper Gas Storage for hydrogen duty (John Egan and Richard Stevenson) \nWatch the video of the second session here \nJohn Egan (Progressive-Energy) \nRichard Stevenson (Inovyn) \n12:40 – Pressure exergy and isobaric operation with hydrogen storage: Prof. Seamus Garvey\, University of Nottingham \n13:00 – Social acceptance of hydrogen: Prof. Zoe Robinson\, University of Keele. \n13:30 – LUNCH \nWatch the video of the third session here \n13:50 – Hydrogen compression and expansion – observations and experiences: Mr. Tony Kitchener\, SVW Compressors pty\, Victoria (Au) \n14:10 – Some Rolls-Royce perspectives on hydrogen: (SMRs\, PEM FCs and reciprocating / gas-turbine engines): Dr. Adam Morton\, Dr. Phil Butler and Prof. Herve Morvan (Rolls-Royce plc) \n14:40 – Panel Session: Panel members from National Grid\, BEIS\, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and BGS. \n15:10 – Event Close
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/hydrogen-storage-in-caverns-event-2021/
LOCATION:University of Nottingham\, University Park\, Nottingham\, NG7 2RD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Past Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210512
DTSTAMP:20260403T212058
CREATED:20230629T142143Z
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SUMMARY:Grid Inertia 2021
DESCRIPTION:A summary of Grid Inertia 2021Event overviewAs large amounts of renewable energy generation are introduced to electrical grids and fossil-fuelled plants close down\, the energy system loses the short-term storage provided by the huge spinning rotors of the power stations. This event provides a space to discuss the reduction in grid inertia and to explore solutions in terms of technology\, markets and policy. \nThis is a summary of Grid Inertia 2021 which was run in conjunction with EPRI. \nBelow is the agenda for the event\, followed by links to various thought pieces. For more technical details about this event\, please visit the EPRI website here. \n\n\n\nTime (GMT)\nSession\n\n\n9:10 -9:20\nWelcome – Seamus Garvey\n\n\n9:20 – 10:40\nNetworks and Technology session \n\nInertia Services in the Australian Power System – Samantha Christie\, AEMO\nRegional Inertia Challenges in Weakly Coupled Systems – EPRI’s Efforts and Experience – Papiya Dattaray\, EPRI\nQuantifying Inertia and System Strength in Modern Power Systems – Brian Berry\, Reactive Technologies\nRole and Value of Inertia in Future Decarbonised Grids – Goran Strbac\, Imperial College London\n\n\n\n\n10:40 – 10:50\nBreak\n\n\n10:50 – 12:10\nMarket and policy session \n\nTrends in Inertia: Past Markets and Plans – Ben Gomersall\, National Grid\nDesign of Inertia Markets\, Martin Kearns\, EDF\nNordic System Overview – Mikko Kuivaniemi\, Fingrid\n\n\n\n\n12:10 – 13:00\nLunch \n\nAsk an Expert – Andy Turner\, Reactive Technology and Adrian Kelly\, EPRI\n\n\n\n\n13:00 – 13:55\nBreak-out sessions\n\n\nRoom 1: Synchronous Machines Tutorial – Seamus Garvey\, University of Nottingham\n\n\nRoom 2: Grid forming and Synthetic Inertia – Mark Sumner\, University of Edinburgh \n\nGrid Forming Converters – Deepak Ramasubramanian\, EPRI\n\n\n\n\nRoom 3: Storage and Fast Frequency Response – Papiya Dattaray\, EPRI \n\nGary Preece\, HighView\,\nGrid Frequency Volatility in Future Low Inertia Scenarios: The Role of Grid Scale Battery Storage – Solomon Brown\, University of Sheffield\n\n\n\n\nRoom 4: Pure Flywheels – James Rouse\, University of Nottingham \n\nSHyKESS James Rouse\, University of Nottingham\nGyrotricity – Keith Pullen\, City University of London\n\n\n\n\nRoom 5: Inertia and Renewables\n\n\n13:55 – 14:05\nBreak\n\n\n14:05 – 15:00\nPanel / Q & A – Michael Colechin \n\nAndy Turner\, Reactive Technologies\nDavid Cole\, Atkins\nDave Potter\, Uniper Stability Pathfinder\n\n\n\n\n\nLinks to Events and Thought Leadership Pieces on Energy StorageWe have developed a number of useful events and thought leadership pieces on energy storage. A link to each of these can be found below. \nwww.era.ac.uk/Medium-Duration-Energy-Storage \nwww.era.ac.uk/Medium-Duration-Energy-Storage-2022 \nwww.era.ac.uk/Hydrogen-Storage-in-Caverns-2021 \nwww.era.ac.uk/Hydrogen-Storage-in-Caverns-2022 \nwww.era.ac.uk/Grid-Inertia \nwww.era.ac.uk/Grid-Inertia-2022 \nEvent sponsors \n \n As large amounts of renewable energy generation are introduced to electrical grids and fossil-fuelled plants close down\, the energy system loses the short-term storage provided by the huge spinning rotors of the power stations.  Want to work with us?For more information about this event\, or if you are a company and would like to discuss ideas related to this topic\, please contact Professor Seamus Garvey at the University of Nottingham. \nEmail: Seamus.Garvey@nottingham.ac.uk \nAn enhanced flywheel system would be much cheaper than a battery based equivalent. It turns out after all that some new problems have some excellent old solutions. \nProfessor Seamus Garvey\, University of Nottingham
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/grid-inertia-2021/
LOCATION:University of Nottingham\, University Park\, Nottingham\, NG7 2RD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Past Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200324
DTSTAMP:20260403T212058
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SUMMARY:Medium-Duration Energy Storage Event
DESCRIPTION:Medium-Duration Energy Storage in the Net-Zero UKIn the future\, energy storage and the storage of energy services will be one of the main mechanisms by which the mismatch between resource availability and service demand is resolved. \nThe importance of Medium Duration Energy StorageAs the UK transitions to a sustainable future in which the net emission of CO2 is driven to zero\, it is inevitable that solar power and offshore wind power will deliver large fractions of the total energy requirement. In this future\, energy storage and the storage of energy services will be one of the main mechanisms by which the mismatch between resource availability and service demand is resolved. \nDifferent technology sets are appropriate for addressing different storage durations. Supercapacitors and flywheels dominate the very short discharge durations. Batteries and demand-side response combine to provide very effective solutions for discharge durations up to 2-3 hours. \nFuels of different sorts such as hydrogen\, ammonia\, bio-ethanol\, bio-methane etc. deliver very attractive options for long-durations where energy may be stored for years and discharged over periods of months. A fundamental\, and still unresolved\, question is whether there is a role for storage technologies which are suited to discharge durations between 3-4 hours and ~100-200 hours. \nSponsored by The Energy Research Accelerator and by Supergen Energy Storage Network+\, this unique event\, which took place online on Monday 16th March aimed to address that question head-on.  \nEvent ProgrammeSession 1 \nSeamus Garvey Neville Rieger Professor of Dynamics\, University of NottinghamMedium-Duration Energy Storage explained \nSir Chris Llewellyn Smith FRS\, Professor and Director of Energy Research at the University of Oxford.The need for Energy Storage in a Net Zero World. \nGoran Strbac\, Professor of Energy Systems at Imperial College.What energy systems modelling indicates that we need in terms of energy storage. \nHenrik Stiesdal\, Former CTO Siemens WindpowerEnergy storage for high penetrations of offshore wind: needs and solutions. \nSession 2 \nToby Peters\, Professor of Cold Economy\, University of Birmingham.Storage of coolth (coldness) as a means of introducing flexibility into the electricity grid. \nAngelos Chatzidiakos\, Ramboll\, UK.Pit Thermal Energy Storage\, Experience and working systems. \nSeamus Garvey\, Neville Rieger Professor of Dynamics\,University of Nottingham. Technologies for energy storage especially suited to the integration of high penetrations of offshore wind. \nSession 3 \nGareth Brett\, CTO of Highview Power Ltd.Experiences in designing and operating liquid air energy storage. \nSimon Branch\, CEO of Innovatium LLP.Exploiting liquid air to transform industrial air compression into a service delivering medium-duration energy service storage. \nSession 4 \nHaisheng Chen\, Professor of Propulsion and Power at the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics\, Chinese Academy of Sciences\, Beijing.Research Progress of Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage in China.  \nZiping Feng\, Professor at Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversation\, Chinese Academy of Sciences\, Guangzhou.How ice slurry technology can unlock the electrification of winter heating in Northern Europe.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/medium-duration-energy-storage-event/
CATEGORIES:Past Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200225
DTSTAMP:20260403T212058
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SUMMARY:Grid Inertia
DESCRIPTION:What are the current perceptions and direction of travel around Grid Inertia?This is the summary of an event which took place the the University of Nottingham on 24th February on the subject of Grid Inertia. \nGrid Inertia – current perceptions and direction of travelGrid inertia is a form of energy storage which addresses imbalances between supply and demand on electricity grids over very short time periods\, typically on the order of fractions of a second to several of seconds. This is a summary of an event which took place at the University of Nottingham on 24th February. \nUntil now grid inertia has been provided by fossil fuel power plants as an unintended consequence of operating large synchronous machines stiffly connected to both the grid and large spinning masses (turbines). It is the kinetic energy of the turbine that may be passively adjusted\, albeit momentarily\, to account for short term supply/demand imbalances. \nThese sources of grid inertia will clearly be lost however as grids are decarbonised\, leading to legitimate concerns over how future grids will operate. The field of grid inertia replacement is dynamic and rapidly developing\, with many potential technological solutions\, market designs\, and mitigation strategies being proposed by a range of players. \nGrid Inertia: Current Perceptions and Directions of Travel looks to invite this diverse international audience to discuss the wide spectrum of reactions and approaches\, with a view to starting the conversation on grid inertia. The day will comprise of a series of talks from both industry and academia\, culminating in a panel discussion. Talks will discuss emerging technologies as well as developing market place models through presentations from EPRI\, the National Grid\, EDF\, and others. \nThe event took place at the University of Nottingham on 24th February\, and was supported by the EPSRC funded Supergen programme and the Energy Research Accelerator (ERA). \nEvent Presentations9:10 – 9:40\, Grid Inertia – Fundamental concepts and the developing marketplace\, Adrian Kelly – EPRI \n9:40 – 10:10\, What have synchronous generators ever done for us? Guarang Vakil – UoN \n10:10 – 10:40\, Generator Stability Study for High ROCOF Events in a Low Inertia Grid\, Martin Aten – UNIPER Talk 3 – UNIPER – Generator Stability Study for High ROCOF Events in a Low Inertia Grid \n11:00 – 11:30\, A generators perspective of grid inertia\, Alastair Davies – EDF \n11:30 – 12:00\, The profile of grid inertia thus far and expected profile into the future \, Ben Gomersall – National Grid \n12:00 – 12:30\, The DS3 approach: how Ireland is achieving high NSSP\, Tony McGuinness and Marios Zarafakis – ESB \n13:30 – 14:00\, Inertia in energy storage. SynchoStore\, Win Rampen – University of Edinburgh \n14:00 – 14:30\, Gyrotricity – a cost effective flywheel solution for supply of inertia\, Keith Pullen – City University of London/Director of Gyrotricity \n14:30 – 15:00\, Real\, partially-real and synthetic inertia. \, Adam Hoskin – UoN \n15:15 – 15:45\, Grid-forming converters and what they do. Mark Sumner – UoN \n15:45 – 16:15\, Project Phoenix\, Campbell Booth  \n As large amounts of renewable energy generation are introduced to electrical grids and fossil-fuelled plants close down\, the energy system loses the short-term storage provided by the huge spinning rotors of the power stations.  Want more information?For more information about this event\, or if you are a company and would like to discuss ideas related to this topic\, please contact Professor Seamus Garvey at the University of Nottingham. \nEmail: Seamus.Garvey@nottingham.ac.uk \nAn enhanced flywheel system would be much cheaper than a battery based equivalent. It turns out after all that some new problems have some excellent old solutions. \nProfessor Seamus Garvey\, University of Nottingham
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/grid-inertia/
LOCATION:University of Nottingham\, University Park\, Nottingham\, NG7 2RD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Past Events
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