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
1/21/2025Wei Peng 
Assistant Professor, School of Public and International Affairs &
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
TBD
1/28/2025Reid Calhoon
CEO, ClimateWells
Energy Companies and Environmentalists: The Voluntary Carbon Market
2/4/2025Melinda Taylor
Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Texas at Austin
TBD
2/11/2025Hector Pollitt
Senior Economist, World Bank
The Real-World Economics of the Energy Transition: Finding Policy That Works
2/18/2025Chris Lamb
Cybersecurity Researcher, Energy Security, Sandia National Laboratory
TBD
2/25/2025Daniel Roesler
Founder & CIO, UtilityAPI
Utility Data and Connectivity - How Climate Changes Everything
3/4/2025Adam Birchfield 
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
Electric Grid Dynamic Simulation: Open Synthetic Datasets and Stability Assessment Frameworks
3/11/2025TBDTBD
3/25/2025Matthew 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
4/1/2025TBDTBD
4/8/2025Yonghong Chen
Chief Scientist, Grid Planning and Analysis Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Interregional Transmission Operational Coordination
4/15/2025Lee 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
4/22/2025Sam Porter
Co-Founder & CEO, NeuVentus
Texas Reliability Underground: How Salt Cavern Storage Enables the Energy Expansion & Transition