UT Energy Symposium
A weekly guest lecture series that is both free and open to the public and available for course credit.
In an effort to provide a multi-disciplinary platform for UT faculty and students to interact on the most pressing energy issues facing our world, the Energy Institute sponsors the UT Energy Symposium (UTES), which will enter its 27th semester in fall 2024.
The UTES serves as a “convener” for the campus community, uniting students interested in energy issues with faculty and others working on sustainable energy security. Students who register for the symposium receive one credit hour for the 15-week seminar course, which is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
Ongoing themes for UTES include climate change policy, innovation and diffusion of energy technologies, low-carbon technology options and status, and behavioral aspects of energy consumption.
Each UTES talk will be recorded and posted on this page and on the Energy Institute YouTube channel following the event.
Instructor: Carey King
Unique Number (Spring 2024): 60345 (graduate students) / 60030 (undergraduates)
Day & Time: Tuesday, 12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Christa Hopkins, who can be reached at 512-475-8447 or christa@energy.utexas.edu, no later than five (5) business days prior to the event.
Upcoming UT Energy Symposium Talks
Date | Speaker | Talk Title |
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9/3/2024 | Beth Garza Senior Fellow, R Street Institute | Electric Paradigms |
9/10/2024 | Benji Backer Founder and Executive Chairman, | Book Talk: The Conservative Environmentalist |
9/17/2024 | Fred Closmann Research Associate, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering | Lowering the Risk of Commercialization of Co2 Capture With Amine Solvents |
9/24/2024 | Tim Dixon General Manager, Greenhouse Gas Program, | Carbon Capture and Storage in the Global Climate Scene |
10/1/2024 | Swadesh Mitter Mahajan Research Professor, Institute for Fusion Studies, | Fusion on Earth: a Quintessentially Scientific Pursuit With an Important Commercial Goal |
10/8/2024 | Frank Wolak President and CEO, Fuel Cell and | Hydrogen in the Energy Transition, Emergence From Research Interest to National Priority |
10/15/2024 | Alexandra Klass James G. Degnan Professor of Law | Utility Regulation as Social Policy |
10/22/2024 | Dan Dalton Vice President, Global Partnerships, Wisk Aero, | Sustainability and Autonomy - the Interconnected Future of Modern Flight |
10/29/2024 | Joseph Kiesecker Lead Scientist, The Nature Conservancy | TBD |
11/5/2024 | Ariel Ramos | The State of Energy in Mexico |
11/12/2024 | Destenie Nock Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, | Engineering and Social Justice: Using High-resolution Residential Data to Identify Energy Poverty in Households |
11/19/2024 | Clay Seigel Director, Global Oil Service Rapidan Energy Group, LLC | Oil in the Crosshairs: Energy as an Enabler and a Target in Modern Military Strategy |
12/3/2024 | Murtaza I. Gandhi Manager, Qualitative Risk and Sustainability, BakerRisk | Influencing a Culture of Safety While Designing Energy Transition Solutions |
UT Energy Symposium Talks
May 2, 2019
Thoughtful Pathways on Emissions Reductions and the Implications of Policy-Driven Electrification
Managing Director, Energy Analysis, American Gas Association
April 25, 2019
Powerless: The impact of Hurricane Maria and The Transformation of Puerto Rico’s Energy Sector
Eliván Martínez Mercado, UT Energy Journalism Fellow
April 18, 2019
Human Right to Energy
Monika Ehrman, Faculty Director, Oil & Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Center (ONE C), The University of Oklahoma College of Law
April 11, 2019
Scientific Oversight of Climate Policy: Lessons from California
Mason Inman, lead analyst, Near Zero
April 4, 2019
Global Warming arrested and Catastrophic Climate Change averted with one action by 12 people – The BigDO (REMOTE TALK)
Susan Krumdieck, Professor, Mech. Eng., University of Canterbury New Zealand
March 28, 2019
Brazil Oil & Gas Sector: 20 yr look-back at Policy vs Impact on Investments
Carla Lacerda, President, ExxonMobil Brazil
March 14, 2019
Economic models need biophysical principles: Otherwise we can’t explain our energy past or future
Carey King, Assistant Director and Research Scientist, UT Austin Energy Institute
March 7, 2019
Hawaii, a Postcard from the Future
Adam Warren, Director, Integrated Applications Center, NREL
February 28, 2019
Revisiting business-as-usual: why our worst-case climate scenarios aren’t as bad as we thought and 2˚ is more readily achievable
Justin Ritchie, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia
February 21, 2019
Getting to zero: what will it take to decarbonize electricity and will the Green New Deal help?
Jesse Jenkins, Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School | Harvard University Center for the Environment
February 14, 2019
How and why people disagree on future energy issues, and broader social/economic outcomes related to energy systems: a discussion
David Spence, Carey King and Fred Beach, UT Austin
February 7, 2019
California Energy Policy in Crisis
Michael Wara, Director, Climate and Energy Policy Program, Senior Research Scholar, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
January 31, 2019
Non-Renewable Resources, Extraction Technology, and Economic Growth
Martin Stuermer, Sr. Research Economist, Research Dept., Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
November 29, 2018
Geopolitical and energy trade affected by China’s rise
David Firestein, Executive Director, China Public Policy Center; Clinical Professor of Public Affairs, LBJ School, UT Austin
November 15, 2018
Book talk: Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks and the Making of an Oil Frontier
Maya Rao, Washington correspondent for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune writer and author of Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks and the Making of an Oil Frontier
November 8, 2018
Innovating for a Clean Energy Future
Kate Zerrenner, Senior Manager, Energy-Water Initiatives, Environmental Defense Fund
October 25, 2018
Addressing Energy Poverty in Texas
Dana Harmon, Director, Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute
October 18, 2018
Shale: The Revolution That Wasn’t
Richard Chuchla, Director, Energy and Earth Resources program, Jackson School of Geosciences
October 11, 2018
Renewables and electricity market design
Peter Cramton, Professor of Economics, University of Cologne and University of Maryland
October 4, 2018
Transitioning to electricity as a fuel: challenges and opportunities for remaking our refueling infrastructure
Mike Nicholas, Senior Researcher, The International Council on Clean Transportation
September 27, 2018
What We Measure Matters – US Electricity in the Future
Robert Hebner, Director, Center for Electromechanics, The University of Texas at Austin
September 20, 2018
Creative Destruction and the Electric Utility of the Future
David Hurlbut, Senior Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
September 13, 2018
Fuel Taxation, Emissions Policy, and Competitive Advantage in the Diffusion of European Diesel Automobiles
Eugenio J. Miravete, Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Texas at Austin
September 6, 2018
How Energy Fits into the History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
Raj Patel, Research Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs