Energy Symposium

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.


UT Energy Symposium Talks

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February 13, 2014

Emerging Legal and Political Issues in Shale Gas Production

David Spence, Associate Professor, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin

February 6, 2014

A Status Report on the U.S. Nuclear Energy Program

William C. Ostendorff, Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner

January 30, 2014

January 23, 2014

Transforming America’s Grid through Technology, Competition & Green Power

J. Calvin Crowder, President, Electric Transmission Texas

November 21, 2013

The impacts of shale gas development on surface water quality

Sheila Olmstead, Associate Professor at UT Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs

November 14, 2013

Valuation of plug-in vehicle life-cycle air emissions and oil displacement benefits

Paulina Jaramillo, Assistant Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University

November 7, 2013

Leveraging large data sets: demand side models and control in low carbon power systems

Duncan Callaway, Assistant Professor at the University of California Berkeley

October 31, 2013

Telling the U.S. Energy Story

Jim Malewitz, Energy Reporter at The Texas Tribune

October 24, 2013

The Future of Coal

Andrew Maxson, Program Manager at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

October 17, 2013

October 3, 2013

September 26, 2013

September 19, 2013

Modelling energy technology policy alternatives using expert elicitations

Greg Nemet, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

September 12, 2013

Student Research Showcase

  • Craig Andrew Milroy, PhD student, Chemical Engineering: “Lithium-sulfur batteries”
  • Daniel Urieli, PhD student, Computer Science: “A Learning Agent for Heat-Pump Thermostat Control”
  • Krystian Perez, PhD student, Chemical Engineering: “Smart Use of Smart Meters: Disaggregation of A/C Loads from Residential Homes”

September 5, 2013

Framing Energy Innovation Policy: Why We Fail to Learn from Experience

Jeffrey Alexander, Associate Director for Research & Analytics, SRI International

April 30, 2013

Energy with the CEO: "Energy Innovation and Entrepreneurship”

Randy Foutch, Chairman and CEO, Laredo Petroleum

April 25, 2013

United States Renewable Electricity Futures: Are High Penetrations Possible?

Ryan Wiser, Staff Scientist and Deputy Group Leader in the Electricity Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

April 11, 2013

Unlocking Energy Innovation

Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT

April 4, 2013

Integrating Renewables and Efficiency in the Energy Mix at Chevron

Jim Davis, President, Chevron Energy Solutions

March 28, 2013

Investing in Energy Innovation

Bob Metcalfe, Professor of Innovation and Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

March 21, 2013

Student Research Showcase

  • Josh Rhodes, Webber Energy Group, “Data-Driven Results from the Pecan Street Smart Grid Demonstration Project”
  • Robert Fares, Mechanical Engineering, “Towards a Distributed Grid: A Quantitative Assessment of Community Energy Storage for Islanding”
  • Steve Bourne, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, “Thermal Storage and the Building Side of Smartgrid”

March 7, 2013

International Low-Carbon Technology Transfers: Do Intellectual Property Regimes Matter?

Varun Rai, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin

February 28, 2013

All You Ever Wanted to Know About Smart Grids

John McDonald, Director, Technical Strategy & Policy Development, GE Energy Management – Digital Energy

February 14, 2013

Recent Developments in Unconventional Gas Law and Regulation

John Hays, Adjunct Professor of Energy Law at the UT School of Law and Partner at Hays & Owens LLP