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
9/3/2024	Beth Garza Senior Fellow, R Street Institute	Electric Paradigms
9/10/2024	Benji Backer Founder and Executive Chairman, American Conservation Coalition Author, The Conservative Environmentalist	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, International Energy Agency	Carbon Capture and Storage in the Global Climate Scene
10/1/2024	Swadesh Mitter Mahajan Research Professor, Institute for Fusion Studies, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin; Chief Scientific Advisor of ExoFusion	Fusion on Earth: a Quintessentially Scientific Pursuit With an Important Commercial Goal
10/8/2024	Frank Wolak President and CEO, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association	Hydrogen in the Energy Transition, Emergence From Research Interest to National Priority
10/15/2024	Alexandra Klass James G. Degnan Professor of Law University of Michigan Law School	Utility Regulation as Social Policy
10/22/2024	Dan Dalton Vice President, Global Partnerships, Wisk Aero, LLC Volunteer Chairman of the Texas Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Advisory Committee	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, Carnegie Mellon University, CEO of Peoples Energy Analytics	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