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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Seigle Energy & Geopolitical Risk Strategist | 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 |
UT Energy Symposium Talks
October 19, 2017
Cutting Carbon in Maritime Cargo Shipping
Maria Gallucci, 2017-2018 UT Energy Journalism Fellow
October 12, 2017
Coupling Heat Storage to Nuclear Reactors For Variable Electricity Output with Base-Load Reactor Operations
Charles Forsberg, Director and a Principle Investigator of the DOE Integrated Research Project on Fluoride-salt-cooled High-Temperature Reactors (FHRs), MIT
October 5, 2017
Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems
Kevan Weaver, Director of Technology Integration, TerraPower
September 28, 2017
Low Energy Nuclear Reactions: Status and Prospects for Science and Business
Dave Nagel, Professor, George Washington University
September 21, 2017
Electrolyte Choices for Rechargeable Batteries
John Goodenough, Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
September 14, 2017
U.S. Climate Policy: The Importance of Thinking and Acting Regionally
Dave Adelman, Professor, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin
September 7, 2017
Keeping The Lights On As We Transition To Renewables
Gene Preston, CEO, Transmission Adequacy Consulting
April 27, 2017
Redesigning Civilization: And Other Small Things
Matt Grocoff, Principal, THRIVE Collaborative
April 20, 2017
ExxonMobil 2017 Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040
Robert Gardner, Manager, Economics and Energy Division, Corporate Strategic Planning at ExxonMobil
April 13, 2017
The Evolving Utility Business Models – The Electric Cooperative Story
Peter Muhoro, Director of Energy Research and Strategies, Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC)
April 6, 2017
Mexican Energy Reform in a time of Insecurity
Lorne Matalon, UT Energy Journalism Fellow and reporter for National Public Radio in West Texas
March 30, 2017
Energy and the Anthropocene
David Biello, Science Curator at TED Conferences
March 23, 2017
U.S. & World Nuclear Energy
Dale Klein, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research for the UT System and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
March 9, 2017
The Geopolitics of Oil: Western Hemisphere Scenarios
Jorge Piñon, Director of UT Austin’s Latin America and Caribbean Energy Program
March 2, 2017
The Art of Doing Good Science: Experiences in Interdisciplinary Energy Research
Varun Rai, Associate Professor at the UT Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs
February 23, 2017
Building a smart grid through smart decision-making and smart organizations
Michael Legatt, CEO and Founder at ResilientGrid
February 16, 2017
Decoupling energy consumption from GDP under induced technological change
Eric Kemp-Benedict, Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
February 2, 2017
Climate Change, Methane, and the Global Oil and Gas system
Daniel Zavala, post-doctoral-scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund
January 26, 2017
Beyond the Texas Restructured Electric Markets Giving Power and Value to Consumer Energy Resources
Jon Wellinghoff, Chief Policy Officer at SolarCity and former Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (2009 – 2013)
November 17, 2016
Dust to Dust, with a stop at the Stars: The NRG Story
George Schaefer, retired senior financial executive with over 30 years’ experience in the independent power industry
November 10, 2016
EPRI’s Integrated Grid
Barbara Tyran, Executive Director, Government & External Relations, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
November 3, 2016
Power Markets, Regulation, and Utility Scale Solar in the U.S.
Colin Meehan, Director, Regulatory & Public Affairs, First Solar
October 27, 2016
Reforming the Energy Vision: An Electric System for Stormy Times
Elizabeth Stein, Senior Manager – New York Clean Energy Law & Policy, Environmental Defense Fund
October 20, 2016
Fail Faster, Be Nimbler: Does the Oil & Gas Industry Have Anything to Learn from Silicon Valley?
Russell Gold, senior energy reporter at The Wall Street Journal
October 13, 2016
Cash is King! The Comparative Effectiveness of Solar Incentives
Dan Matisoff, Associate Professor, The School of Public Policy, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech