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 multidisciplinary 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 entered 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. The course is taught in both the fall and spring semesters.
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 is recorded and posted on this page and on the Energy Institute YouTube channel.
Instructor: Carey King
Unique Number (Spring 2024): 60540 (graduate students) / 60245 (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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2/4/2025 | Melinda Taylor Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Texas at Austin | Reducing Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations in the Permian Basin: A Common Sense Approach |
2/11/2025 | Hector Pollitt Senior Economist, World Bank | The Real-World Economics of the Energy Transition: Finding Policy That Works |
2/18/2025 | Chris Lamb Cybersecurity Researcher, Energy Security, Sandia National Laboratory | TBD |
2/25/2025 | Daniel Roesler Founder & CIO, UtilityAPI | Utility Data and Connectivity - How Climate Changes Everything |
3/4/2025 | Matthew Heun and Paul Brockway Professor, Department of Engineering, Calvin University; Associate Professor, Sustainability Research Institute (SRI), School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds | A Country-level Primary, Final, Useful Energy and Exergy Database to Improve Understanding of Energy and the Economy |
3/11/2025 | Kent Zheng Assistant Professor, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin | Reimagining Battery Chemistries for Sustainable Energy Storage |
3/25/2025 | Adam Birchfield Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University | Electric Grid Dynamic Simulation: Open Synthetic Datasets and Stability Assessment Frameworks |
4/1/2025 | TBD | TBD |
4/8/2025 | Yonghong Chen Chief Scientist, Grid Planning and Analysis Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Interregional Transmission Operational Coordination |
4/15/2025 | Lee Lynd Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professor of Engineering & Adjunct Professor of Biology, Dartmouth University; Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Terragia Corporation | TBD |
4/22/2025 | Sam Porter Co-Founder & CEO, NeuVentus | Texas Reliability Underground: How Salt Cavern Storage Enables the Energy Expansion & Transition |
UT Energy Symposium Talks
January 23, 2024
The HyVelocity Hydrogen Hub Project & the US Model for Energy Innovation
Brian Korgel and Andy Uhler, Rashid Engineering Regents Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering & Director of the Energy Institute and UT Energy Journalism Fellow.
January 16, 2024
Changing Energy Geopolitics with Notes on the Eurasia Crises
Tatiana Mitrova, Research Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy and Independent Director
November 28, 2023
A Conversation with J. Clay Sell, CEO of X-energy: Redefining Nuclear Energy
J. Clay Sell, Chief Executive Officer of X-energy
November 14, 2023
A.I. in Short-term Power Trading: A Look at Potential Impacts on Industry, Economy, and Regulation
Dan Erhardt, CEO of Arcus Power Corp
November 7, 2023
The Energy Blindness of Economics From Adam Smith to William Nordhaus
Steve Keen, Distinguished Research Fellow, University College London
November 3, 2023
Creating Global Markets for Low Greenhouse Gas Emission Natural Gas
Dr. David Allen and Dr. Arvind Ravikumar, Co-Directors of Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab (EEMDL) and Professors at The University of Texas at Austin
October 31, 2023
Fossil Phaseout and the Just Energy Transition
Emily Grubert, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame
October 23, 2023
Exploring the Role of Hydrogen & Low-Carbon Fuels in the Energy Sector
Neil Kern, Program Manager of the Low-Carbon Research Initiative at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
October 17, 2023
Steelman Discussion: Should ERCOT Interconnect (Synchronize) with the Eastern or Western Interconnect?
Carey King and Michael Webber
October 10, 2023
Carbon Trade War and the Energy Transition
Kevin Book, Managing Director of Research, ClearView Energy Partners, LLC
October 3, 2023
Climate Investing x Diversity
Vida Asiegbu, Principal, Investor, Energy Impact Partners
September 26, 2023
When Situational Awareness, Mental Models, and Adaptive Capacity Meet Control Room Surprises
Mike Legatt, CEO and Founder, ResilientGrid, Inc.
September 19, 2023
Living Well Within Limits: Is It Possible? And What Will It Take?
Julia Steinberger, Professor, Institute of Geography & Sustainability, University of Lausanne
September 12, 2023
Substituting Renewable Energy for Fossil Fuels is a Doomsday Stratagem
Arthur E. Berman, Director, Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inc.
September 5, 2023
Is Decarbonization the Next Industrial Revolution?
Shaun Boardman, Chief Sustainable Technologies Officer, GreenStarBCS
August 29, 2023
April 18, 2023
Job Creation Dynamics of Electric Vehicle Adoption
JR DeShazo, Dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
April 11, 2023
Extreme Climate Risks and Financial Tipping Points
Gaël Giraud, Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Director of the Environmental Justice Program, Georgetown University
April 4, 2023
Energy and Evolution of Human Economic Order
Lisi Krall, Professor of Economics, State University of New York, Cortland
March 28, 2023
Life Cycle Assessment of Energy Transitions: the Geospatial Context of Global Change
Sarah Marie Jordaan, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED), McGill University
March 21, 2023
PyPSA Meets Earth: A Vibrant Open Energy System Model Initiative
Stuart Daniel James, Research Associate for Energy System Modeling at Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT)
March 7, 2023
Storing Hydrogen in the Subsurface: Challenges and Opportunities for Low-carbon Energy
Peter Eichhubl, Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin
February 28, 2023
CCS: The Swiss Army Knife of Climate Change Mitigation and a Key to the Energy Transition
Alex Bump, Research Geologist, Gulf Coast Carbon Center, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin
February 21, 2023
Science and Engineering of Negative Emissions Technologies
Roger Aines, Chief Scientist, Energy and Homeland Security Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
February 14, 2023
Probing Electrochemical Phenomena in Electrochemical Hydrogen Technologies with Self-assembled Block Copolymer Templates
Christopher Arges, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Penn State