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): 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
11/12/2024Destenie 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
11/19/2024Clay Seigle
Energy & Geopolitical Risk Strategist
Oil in the Crosshairs: Energy as an Enabler and a Target in Modern Military Strategy
12/3/2024Murtaza I. Gandhi 
Manager, Qualitative Risk and Sustainability, BakerRisk
Influencing a Culture of Safety While Designing Energy Transition Solutions

UT Energy Symposium Talks

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February 1, 2022

Integrating Massive Amounts of Wind and Solar in Electric Power Systems

Ben Kroposki​, Director, Power Systems Engineering Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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January 25, 2022

Grid Modernization and Energy Storage at Sandia National Laboratories – Challenges, Priorities, and Key Projects

Charles Hanley, Senior Manager, Grid Modernization and Energy Storage Programs, Sandia National Laboratories

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November 30, 2021

Panel Discussion: Energy Justice and International Development

Mr. Ashvin Dayal, Senior VP, Power and Climate, The Rockefeller Foundation

Dr. Rebekah Shirley, Director of Research, Data & Innovation, WRI Africa

Ms. Dana Harmon, Executive Director, Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute

Moderator: Dr. Varun Rai, Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, UT Austin

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November 23, 2021

The how and why of energy use in the past: Additional insights from World long-run time series on electricity since 1900

Tânia Sousa, Auxiliary Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon University)

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November 16, 2021

What clean tech will get us to net zero? An overview based on long-term energy scenarios

Anna Broughel, Program Director of Energy Leadership, Clean Energy Leadership Institute; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University

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November 9, 2021

Survey of California Strategies to Meet Renewable Energy and GHG Goals

Jared Babula, Senior Attorney, California Energy Commission; Faculty member, Empire School of Law

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November 2, 2021

October 26, 2021

Cleantech Investing 1.0 to Energy Transition Investing Today – What is different this time?

Eric Danziger, Managing Director – Energy Transition, Riverbend Energy Group

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October 19, 2021

The Rise of Analytics and Digital Infrastructure in the Energy Industry

Raiford Smith, Products and Technology, X: The Moonshot Factory

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October 12, 2021

Sustainability Trends for the Real Estate Industry

Akshai Rao, Sr Vice President, Ancillary Services, Yardi Systems

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September 28, 2021

Panel discussion: Perpetual Transition and Emerging Opportunities on the Energy Landscape

Distinguished Lecture Series of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law, and Business:

  • Shawn Cumberland, Managing Partner, Energy Transition, Encap Investments L.P.

  • Deniz Dindoruk, Senior Development Manager, Shell

  • Will Glazener, Solution Leader, McKinsey & Company

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September 21, 2021

September 14, 2021

September 7, 2021

BaSKET: Building a Strategy for Key Energy Transitions

Mik Carbajales-Dale, Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Clemson University

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May 4, 2021

Accelerating the Energy Transition

Robert Kleinbaum, Technical Fellow, General Motors

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April 27, 2021

April 20, 2021

An Oxford-style Debate on the Role of Carbon Pricing to Foster a Low-Carbon Transition

Suzi Kerr, Chief Economist, Environmental Defense Fund

Marc Hafstead, Fellow and Director, Resources for the Future

Matto Mildenberger, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara

William Boyd, Professor, UCLA

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April 6, 2021

Pathways to a Net-Zero Economy

Lesley Jantarasami, Associate Director for Energy and Climate, Bipartisan Policy Center

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March 30, 2021

Crucial Decisions

Ryan Sitton, Founder and CEO, Pinnacle

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March 23, 2021

Land/Energy Nexus in Texas

Michael Young, Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin

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March 9, 2021

Energy: The Key to Understanding Economic Growth

Tiago Domingos, Associate Professor in Environment and Energy, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

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March 2, 2021

China's Decarbonization Challenge

Michael Davidson, Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego

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February 9, 2021

Spatio-Temporal Learning for Enhancing the Situational Awareness of Power Grids

Hao Zhu, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

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February 2, 2021

Our Illusory Faith in Efficiency to Decouple Energy-GDP

Dr. Paul Brockway, University Academic Fellow, Sustainability Research Institute (SRI), University of Leeds, UK

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