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
1/28/2025	Reid Calhoon CEO, ClimateWells	Energy Companies and Environmentalists: The Voluntary Carbon Market
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