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Day 1 - Monday 4th July 2016

10.30: Tea & coffee, registration


10.45-12.30: Plenary session Suite 1

•    Welcome to Cambridge, to the wholeSEM consortium, and to our 3rd Annual conference: Julian Allwood, University of Cambridge
•    Keynote speaker: : Laura Cozzi, Head of Demand Outlook Division, Directorate of Sustainability, International Energy Agency Title: World Energy Outlook: Air Pollution and Energy Use.
•    Respondents: Oliver Rix, Baringa; Alastair Davies, EDF; David Joffe, CCC

•    PhD student session 1:  Two-minute elevator pitches (8 students), Neil Strachan coordinating.

12.30-13.30: Lunch 


13.30-15.00: Concurrent sessions on interdisciplinary energy modelling

Session 1a: Integrating society within energy systems modelling Suite 1

•    Organiser and Rapporteur: Tom Roberts, University of Surrey
•    Speaker A: Georg Holtz, Wuppertal Institute, 'A socio-technical perspective on energy modelling'
•    Speaker B: Kalai Ramea, University of California, Davis, 'Integrating Vehicle Consumer Choice in TIMES and its Implications for Climate Policy Analysis'
•    Speaker C: Kavin Narasimhan, University of Surrey,  'An agent-based model to understand the dynamics of domestic energy practices'

Session 1b: Wider drivers, impacts and unintended consequences Study Centre 2

•    Organiser and Rapporteur: Sandy Skelton, University of Cambridge
•    Speaker A: David McCollum, IIASA, 'Quantifying uncertainties influencing the long-term impacts of oil prices on energy markets and carbon emissions'
•    Speaker B: Sean Beevers, Kings College London, 'The impacts on air quality of policies to meet the UK Climate Change Act target'
•    Speaker C: Zenaida Sobral-Mourao, University of Cambridge, 'Soft-linking the UKTM and Foreseer models: an iterative process to assembling energy system pathways that respect wider environmental limits'

Session 1c: Strategic vs. incremental investment under policy uncertainty Study Centre 8

•    Organiser and Rapporteur: Francesco Fuso Nerini, UCL
•    Speaker A: Keigo Akimoto, RITE, 'Evaluation of 2030 GHG emissions based on the submitted NDCs and their consistency with temperature rise target emission pathways considering scientific and policy uncertainties'
•    Speaker B: Chris Bataille, Simon Fraser University, 'Using backcasting from a low carbon future to inform operations, investment, infrastructure and R&D policy decision making today: The role for modellers'
•    Speaker C: Peihao Li, UCL, 'Characterising and integrating demand response within a long-term energy systems analysis'


15.30 - 16.00: Coffee break (PhD posters available)

16.00-17.30: Plenary session Suite 1

•    Chair: Nilay Shah, Imperial College London
•    PhD student session 2:  Two-minute elevator pitches (8 students), Neil Strachan coordinating.

•    Discussion session: Encouraging modellers and model users to combine insights from real world markets, societal process and technology policies.
•    Discussants: Jim Watson UKERC; Evelina Trutnevyte, ETH; Phil Taylor, University of Newcastle

18.30: Evening drinks: Trinity Hall Cambridge

19.30: Conference Dinner: Trinity Hall Cambridge
•    After dinner speaker: Nick Winser; Chair, Energy Systems Catapult




Day 2 - Tuesday 5th July 2016

09.00 - 11:00: Concurrent sessions on interdisciplinary modelling 


Session 2a: Integrating society within energy systems modelling: Suite 1
•    Organiser and Rapporteur: Nawfal Saadi, UCL
•    Speaker A: Jonathan Kohler, Fraunhofer ISI, 'Changing energy, changing lifestyles – social simulation of transitions in mobility with an ABM'
•    Speaker B: Dimitrios Papadaskalopoulos, Imperial College London, 'Integrating social practice and economic rationality principles in household energy demand modelling'
•    Speaker C: Nici Zimmerman, UCL, 'Participatory system dynamics modelling for integrated decision-making about housing, energy and wellbeing'
•    Speaker D: Zia Wadud, University of Leeds, 'Help or hindrance? The travel, energy and carbon impacts of highly automated vehicles'

Session 2b: Wider drivers, impacts and unintended consequences Study Centre 2
•    Organiser and Rapporteur: Rick Lupton, Cambridge
•    Speaker A: Kathrin Volkart, PSI Switzerland, 'Implementation of multi-objective optimization in the MARKAL framework for simultaneously analysing the economic, societal and environmental performance of the global energy system'
•    Speaker B: Leonidas Paroussos, NNTU, 'Fossil fuel subsidies phase out: The role of recycling'
•    Speaker C: Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen, 'Synergies and trade-offs between energy systems and negative emission technologies'
•    Speaker D: Sandy Skelton, University of Cambridge, 'The cost of greenhouse gas emissions abatement through greater material efficiency in the use of steel'

Session 2c: Strategic vs. incremental investment under policy uncertainty: Study Centre 8
•    Organiser and Rapporteur: James Price, UCL
•    Speaker A: Laurent Drouet, FEEM, 'Mitigation policy costs and uncertainty'
•    Speaker B: Stefan Pfenninger, ETH, 'High-resolution modelling of renewable energy and implications for planning under uncertainty'
•    Speaker C: Chris Dent, University of Durham, 'Uncertainty quantification in large scale energy systems models: GB exemplars'
•    Speaker D: Sheila Samsatli, University of Bath, 'Modelling integrated multi-vector energy systems capturing spatial dependencies and hourly operation over a long-term planning horizon'

11.00-11.30: Coffee break (PhD posters available)


11.30-13.00: Concurrent sessions on interdisciplinary energy modelling

Session 3a: Integrating society within energy systems modelling Suite 1
•    Organiser and Rapporteur: Kavin Narasimhan, University of Surrey
•    Speaker A: Evelina Trutnevyte, ETH, 'New approach to interactive use of energy system models for policy support'
•    Speaker B: Catherine Bale, University of Leeds, 'Decision theatres, heat networks and the modelling process: engaging local decision-makers'
•    Speaker C: Tom Roberts, University of Surrey, 'Why on Earth did I buy that!? A study of regretted consumption practices'

Session 3b: Wider drivers, impacts and unintended consequences Study Centre 2
•    Organiser and Rapporteur: Zenaida Sobral-Mourao, University of Cambridge
•    Speaker A: David Brayshaw, University of Reading, 'Climate science in Whole Energy System applications - opportunties and challenges'
•    Speaker B: Paul Brockway, University of Leeds, 'More tools in the policy box: Can exergy analysis give new insights on energy use and rebound?'
•    Speaker C: Marianne Zeyringer & James Price, UCL, 'Modelling long- term energy pathways with high shares of variable renewable energy sources'

Session 3c: Strategic vs. incremental investment under policy uncertainty Study Centre 8
•    Organiser and Rapporteur: Sheila Samsatli, University of Bath
•    Speaker A: Jan Imhof, Aurora Consulting, 'Long-term energy investment, uncertainty, and the role of policy commitment'
•    Speaker B: Michael Kenefick, E4Tech, 'Scottish TIMES - a national energy system perspective'
•    Speaker C: Marko Aunedi, Imperial College London,' Role and value of flexibility in supporting cost-effective transition to an integrated low-carbon energy system'

13.00-14.00: Lunch


14.00-15.00: Final discussion session: How to develop, apply and communicate models when policy objectives are often not explicit? Suite 1
Chair: Goran Strbac, Imperial College London
•    Discussants: Steven Becker, Ofgem; Andy Boston, ERP; Jon Saltmarsh, DECC

15.00-15.20: Conference round up and close – including prizes for best 3 posters Suite 1
•    Neil Strachan, UCL and Jo Coleman, ETI

15.30 – 17.00: wholeSEM Advisory Board (By invitation only) Study Centre 2
•    Chair: Jo Coleman, ETI
•    Contact: Liz Milner, UCL