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
2/18/2025Chris Lamb
Cybersecurity Researcher, Energy Security, Sandia National Laboratory
Cyberwarfare and Critical Infrastructure in the 21st Century
2/25/2025Daniel Roesler
Founder & CIO, UtilityAPI
Utility Data and Connectivity — How Climate Changes Everything
3/4/2025Matthew 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
3/11/2025Kent Zheng
Assistant Professor, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Reimagining Battery Chemistries for Sustainable Energy Storage
3/25/2025Adam Birchfield 
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
Electric Grid Dynamic Simulation: Open Synthetic Datasets and Stability Assessment Frameworks
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

UT Energy Symposium Talks

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March 10, 2020

Will Electric And Driverless Cars Decarbonize Transportation?

Costa Samaras, Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

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March 3, 2020

Leveraging the Power of Small towards Energy Resources Recovery

Dr. Wen Song, Assistant Professor of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin

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February 11, 2020

Ask UT Anything

David Spence (Professor, Baker Botts Chair in Law, Professor of Business, Govt. & Society)

Larry Lake (Professor, Shahid and Sharon Ullah Endowed Chair in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering)

David Adelman (Professor, Harry Reasoner Regents Chair in Law)

Sheila Olmstead (Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs)

Susan Hovorka (Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology)

Carey King (Research Scientist & Assistant Director, Energy Institute)

February 4, 2020

Collaborative Conservation in the Energy Industry

Joni Carswell, CEO and President of Texan by Nature (TxN)

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January 28, 2020

Engaging the Public on Renewable Energy and Carbon Dioxide Removal

Dr. Sol Hart, Associate Professor in Communication and Media and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan

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November 21, 2019

Will China Save the Planet?

Barbara Finamore, Natural Resources Defense Council; Senior Attorney and Senior Strategic Director for Asia

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November 14, 2019

Political Permit Allocations and the Feasibility of Federal Climate Policy

Dr. Joel Landry, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Energy Economics at Penn State University

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November 7, 2019

Making Science Communication More Strategic

Dr. John Besley, Ellis N. Brandt Professor of Public Relations at Michigan State University

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October 31, 2019

Energy & Emissions Implications of Self-Driving Vehicles

Kara Kockelman, the Dewitt Greer Professor of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

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October 24, 2019

Technology progress and physical constraints on tight oil production

Frank Male, postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin

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October 17, 2019

October 10, 2019

The 10th Birthday of Perovskite Solar Cells - Will They Ever Grow Up?

Tim Siegler, postdoctoral researcher in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin

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October 3, 2019

Elements of Energy: Considering the Role of Critical Metals

Dr. Saleem Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware

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September 26, 2019

Fighting Over Eden: Energy, Environment and Religion in Modern America

Asher Price, Journalist, Austin American-Statesman and 2109 Energy Institute Journalism Fellow

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September 19, 2019

Toyota Sustainable Mobility

Edward Mantey, GVP and Executive Advisor of Corporate Strategy & Planning and R&D at Toyota Motor North America

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September 12, 2019

A Discussion on the State of Energy Policy and the Role of Energy Markets

Brent Bennett, Policy Analyst, Texas Public Policy Foundation

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April 18, 2019

Human Right to Energy

Monika Ehrman, Faculty Director, Oil & Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Center (ONE C), The University of Oklahoma College of Law

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April 11, 2019

April 4, 2019

March 14, 2019

Economic models need biophysical principles: Otherwise we can’t explain our energy past or future

Carey King, Assistant Director and Research Scientist, UT Austin Energy Institute

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