ESRI/UCD conference: Energy research to enable climate change mitigation
Energy researchers from the ESRI and UCD’s Energy Institute presented a selection of their respective research providing an evidence base for climate change mitigation.
Conference Programme
Conference Programme
Introduction
8:30
Registration & Coffee
9:00
Welcome Address
Hildegarde Naughton, TD, Chairperson of Oireachtas Committee for Communications, Climate Action & Environment and Special Committee on Climate Action.
Decarbonisation for and from energy systems
Chair: John O’Connell (Ervia)
9:30
Devasanthini Devaraj and Eoin Syron (UCD)
The future role of gas networks in Integrated Energy Network
Dana Kirchem, Muireann Lynch, Eoin Casey and Valentin Bertsch (ESRI)
Exploring the energy-for-water nexus: Can wastewater treatment facilities provide demand flexibility?
Andrew Keane (UCD)
The electricity distribution system and energy decarbonisation
Ciara O'Dwyer and Damian Flynn (UCD)
Impact of flexibility service requirements on power system investment decisions and costs
11:00
Tea and Coffee
Decarbonisation of end-use sectors
Chair: Evin McMahon (Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment)
11:30
Ankita Gaur, Desta Fitiwi and John Curtis (ESRI)
Deep electrification of residential heating and possible implications
Sanghamitra Chattopadhyay Mukherjee, Lisa Ryan and Tensay Meles (UCD)
Attitudes to renewable energy technologies: driving change in Irish households
Kelly de Bruin and Mert Yakut (ESRI)
How should Irish carbon tax revenues be recycled? An application of the I3E model
Shiyu Yan, Kelly de Bruin and Emer Dennehy (ESRI)
The impact of carbon tax on the Irish freight sector
13:00
Close and Lunch