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SUMMARY:ERA and C-DICE's Virtual COP world café.
DESCRIPTION:Based on The World Café method this virtual workshop will bring together Early Career Researchers to discuss ways to tackle challenges identified by COP27 and how to make the resolutions a reality. The session will start with C-DICE fellow Tom Dolan giving a short talk to set the scene\, then we will use an interactive mural board with five stations that will cover the topics of Energy Systems Transformations\, Loss and Damage Fund\, Engineering and Infrastructure Leadership\, Current Barriers and Future Priorities\, and A Resilient Future. Participants will move between the stations to discuss their ideas; these will be captured on the interactive mural to create a living collaborative dialogue on how to resolve the challenges identified by COP27.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/era-and-c-dices-virtual-cop-world-cafe/
LOCATION:Virtual event
CATEGORIES:Skills
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SUMMARY:Net Zero Heroes – Early Career Researcher’s Special
DESCRIPTION:During net zero week we will be holding an ECR special of our monthly net zero heroes webinars. This will highlights the fantastic research that ECR in the ERA network are undertaking\, come along to find out about the fantastic research Humera Ansari is doing on carbon capture and storage\, Mohammad Hamdan is undertaking on digital frameworks in retrofit community buildings and Rabee Jibrin’s research into optimisation for fuel cell hybrid trains. This webinars is for industry\, students\, academics\, professional services staff and the general public who are interested in green energy and transitioning to a net-zero society.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/net-zero-heroes-early-career-researchers-special/
LOCATION:Virtual event
CATEGORIES:Net Zero Heroes
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230707T103000
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SUMMARY:How to Design a Workshop
DESCRIPTION:During this interactive workshop you will learn the principles of effective workshop design and be given the space to practise these principles. Experienced professionals will share their hints and tips on how to design and facilitate a workshop\, with a focus on the learning journey. This training will provide you with an opportunity to upskill\, collaborate with colleagues and apply best practice in designing and delivering your own workshop. \nThis face to face workshop will take place at Loughborough University on Friday 7th July\, 10:30-14:00 with lunch provided.
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/how-to-design-a-workshop/
LOCATION:Loughborough University\, Loughborough University\, Loughborough\, LE11 3TU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Skills
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230712T093000
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SUMMARY:ERA Doctoral Summer Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) ECR Summer Showcase 2023 will be taking place at Aston University this summer. The ERA ECR Summer Showcase is designed to give PhD students\, and post-docs at the beginning of their researcher journey\, an opportunity to show off their fantastic research whilst helping them develop their interpersonal and communication skills in a welcoming and friendly environment.  \nEnter the Summer Showcase Competitions\nThis year there will be two competitions at the summer showcase with a first prize of £100 each! \nDoctoral researchers lightening presentations: Using one PowerPoint slide and/or one object doctoral researchers will explain their research in 60 seconds or less! All summer showcase delegates may enter this competition. Judging panel will consist of ERA academics and industry experts. \nNet Zero in pictures: A gallery of selected photographs will be displayed during the Net Zero Doctoral Showcase event and on the ERA website. You do not need to attend the summer showcase to enter this competition\, but it would be fantastic if you could. \nCan you use your smartphone or tablet to take an interesting or thought-provoking photograph based on the theme “Net-Zero in Pictures”? Or would you like to showcase how you research into Net-Zero via a photograph> Then enter our “Net-Zero in Pictures” competition. It would be great to see some photos of your labs\, workspace\, field trails or anything else that encompasses your research. \nHow to enter\nInterpret the theme “Net-Zero in Pictures” in any way you see fit\, take a photo using a smartphone or tablet and email your pictures to L.A.Foster@lboro.ac.uk by 12.00 noon on Monday 10 July 2023. Please include “Net-Zero In Pictures” in the subject line of your email and remember to include your name and a caption in the body of the email: who / what\, where and when should be enough. You can enter up to three images\, please send each image in a separate email or make it clear which image belongs to which caption. A gallery of selected photographs will be displayed during the Net Zero Doctoral Showcase event and on the ERA website. Please remember\, when taking your photos\, do not endanger yourself or others\, take unnecessary risks or infringe any laws\, and if your photo involves taking a picture of a person\, please receive permission before taking the image. \nProvisional Programme:\n\n\n\nTime\nActivity\n\n\n09:30-10:00\nRegistration\, tea and coffee\n\n\n10:00-10:30\nWelcome + ice-breaker\n\n\n10:30-11:15\nCommunicating your research workshop\n\n\n11:15-12:00\nMapping the ERA research skills / knowledge workshop\n\n\n12:00 – 13:15\nLunch\n\n\n13:15-14:00\nFunding opportunities for researchers\n\n\n14:00-14:45\nInterdisciplinary collaboration workshop\n\n\n14:45-15:05 \n15:05-15:35\nGetting Policy Influence lecture \nPolicy Influence breakout session\n\n\n15:35-15:50\nBreak\n\n\n15:50-16:40\nIndustrial perspectives on energy research – view from a corporate world. Panel discussion\n\n\n16:40-17:20\nDoctoral researchers lightening presentations\n\n\n17:20-17:35\nPrize giving\n\n\n17:40-18:30\nNetworking drinks reception\n\n\n18:30-20:00\nFREE Summer Showcase BBQ
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/era-doctoral-summer-showcase/
LOCATION:Aston University\, Aston University\, Birmingham\, B4 7ET\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Skills
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SUMMARY:Policy and Markets for Offshore Energy Storage - Online
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting hybrid event\, “Policy and Markets for Offshore Energy Storage\,” exploring the development of suitable technologies. \nAbout this event\n\nPrecis: \nIt is now certain that offshore renewable energy will supply a high proportion of primary energy in Northern Europe and other regions. Most forms of that energy are intermittent and there would be strong advantages to implementing energy storage alongside the energy harvesting. This event will explore how well existing policy and market structures can encourage the development of suitable technologies and projects and will attempt to set out how these structures might change for the better in the future. \n\n\n\n\nDiscussion areas: \nIt is beyond doubt now that offshore wind will become a major source of primary power for Northern Europe in the coming decades and it will be important in many other regions also. Wind power is obviously intermittent and some means must be found to reconcile the demand for electricity with its supply. Other forms of offshore renewable energy will also contribute and most of those also introduce intermittency. Energy storage provides one of the main solutions for managing the instantaneous mismatch between resource availability and natural demand and storage is rightly attracting huge attention across the globe now. \nStoring energy locally at offshore sites where renewable energy is collected has several obvious potential benefits. These include \n(a) the marginal cost of ground area is relatively low\, \n(b) implementing solid-state thermal storage may be significantly less expensive offshore than onshore for two separate reasons\, \n(c) there is virtually infinite availability of thermal ballast in the form of sea-water\, \n(d) there may be deep water or offshore salt deposits available to assist pressurised gas/air storage\, \n(e) the utilisation of power transmission lines from site to shore can be improved\, \n(f) there are at least some ways in which energy is collected from the renewable resource in a form that is directly compatible with storage and the conversion to electricity can be performed in response to the demand for electricity – saving both capital costs and power conversion losses \nThere is no suggestion here that all energy storage should be implemented offshore – onshore storage will certainly have a major role also. There is also no suggestion that long-distance power transmission\, including HVDC transmission\, does not have a major role – it will. Producing hydrogen offshore and exploiting that process for both conveying energy as well as for storage will obviously play an important part too. Similarly\, demand-side management will contribute. Notwithstanding these other possible ways to provide flexibility\, local offshore storage could still offer significant system benefits. \nOne objective of this session is to identify the benefits for implementing energy storage at offshore locations and to evaluate whether the associated challenges and costs can be justified based on current evidence. The primary purpose is to examine whether existing policy and market mechanisms might be suppressing developments that might otherwise find strong commercial traction by contributing very cost-effective functionality to the electricity systems to which they are connected. One useful case-study is the scheme for “contracts for difference” (CfDs) auctions. The CfD mechanism has been exceptionally successful in providing developers with the confidence to invest in low-carbon generation projects up to now but it primarily rewards powerplant operators in direct proportion to the energy exported (largely*) independent of how valuable that energy is/was to the system at the time it was exported. \nWe therefore seek to answer the following questions: \n(1) Are the benefits and costs of offshore energy storage sufficiently understood? \n(2) Do existing policy and market mechanisms for incentivising low carbon generation in various countries actually provide suitable incentives for project developers to incorporate storage at offshore generation sites if that would bring overall system benefits\, \n(3) Will “merchant trading” (simply selling electricity onto the wholesale markets) eventually provide the commercial pull for such systems if their benefits are sufficient\, \n(4) If existing policy mechanisms will not elicit good market behaviours and if the merchant trading prospect is still some way off\, what intermediate steps might be taken by governments to sustain at least some appropriate technology development in the meanwhile. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccess presentations from this eventPlease complete the form below to access downloads of the presentations from this event.  \nFirst name *Surname *Affiliation *Email address *				\n																							\n										\n						\n						\n									\n															\n				SubmitThank you for signing up. 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URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/policy-and-markets-for-offshore-energy-storage-online/
LOCATION:Corinthia St George’s Bay\, George's Bay Hotel\, Corinthia Street\, St Julians\, STJ 3301\, Malta
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SUMMARY:2023 Birmingham Decarbonisation Summer School
DESCRIPTION:This five-day in-person event will bring early career researchers together to propose a technical solution and business model for decarbonising a railway service in the UK. Ricardo plc\, a leading engineering consultancy\, will present the challenge and put you in the seat of a consultant for the week. Whilst this year’s theme of railways involves a lot of electric/mechanical engineering\, we strongly encourage applications from other disciplines such as business\, economics\, social sciences\, and environmental sciences. The winning team will receive a lot of kudos and a £100 prize per team member (this may take the form of vouchers). The programme will consist of plenty of technical talks by academics and industry experts to better familiarise attendees with the challenges facing railway decarbonisation\, a social programme\, and team building activities to ensure an informative and enjoyable week for all!
URL:https://www.era.ac.uk/event/2023-birmingham-decarbonisation-summer-school/
LOCATION:Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education\, University of Birmingham\, Birmingham\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Skills
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