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Is There A Climate And Energy Emergency? – If So, What Are The Likely Solutions? |
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4th CLAVERTON ENERGY GROUP CONFERENCE – 24th to 26th October 2008 |
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Wessex Water, Claverton Down Road, Bath |
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Draft only – for comment and feedback
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Stream One |
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Friday |
17.00 |
Delegates assemble – Claverton Statement distributed for review |
18.00 |
Fred Starr -UK policy fiascos – round table or lecture |
18.45 |
The Claverton Statement and book – please think about it over dinner |
19.00 |
Hot buffet dinner – topic – the Claverton Statement |
19.45 |
Wine etc provided by sponsor. |
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Saturday |
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9.00 |
Coffee and networking |
9.30 |
Welcome – uncommitted – ( Lord Ron Oxburgh now has to be in Malaysia) |
9.45 |
Domestics |
10.00 |
Nick Mitchell – Senior Manager, Wessex Water: food waste to energy – the water company view. |
10.30 |
Wayne Boakes – Generation Manager – Wessex Water – diesel generators for grid support. |
11.00 |
BREAK |
11.15 |
Oliver Tickell, Author, journalist and climate change specialist – a paper on Kyoto2 as an exit strategy for fossil fuels |
11.45 |
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12.45 |
Lunch topic – The Claverton Statement – do we agree with it more or less? |
12.45 |
LUNCH |
13.30 |
Results of discussions – do we more or less agree with it? |
13.45 |
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14.45 |
Brian Hurley – ex Chief Scientist Airtricity: World wind power resources- – ( who are planning a 10 GW wind farm combined with an inter-connector in the North Sea.) |
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BREAK |
15.45 |
Martin Alder – MD wind prospect: Wind turbine developer and operator – on-site wind generation. |
15.45 |
Jeremy Harrison – Innovation Consultant EON Engineering: Micro CHP and all Micro generation technologies to provide context/comparison. |
17.30 |
Leighton King Director / CEO Community Power Networks Ltd. “Kyoto UK – the case for a permanent climate change cluster in the UK ” – to focus on getting off grid climate change solutions on the street. |
18.15 |
BREAK |
18.30 |
Chris Hodrien – Squaring the Circle on Coal – Carbon Capture (CCS) |
19.15 |
Dr. Fred Starr – ex EU Energy Centre: (Petten) “IGCC plus CCS: An Objective Analysis” |
20.00 |
The Claverton Statement / Book – transition into a book with the message – “this is the way to go” |
20.15 |
Evening Meal (If you have registered, kindly provided by Green Angel Partners. Dinner topic – can we make this into a decent book? |
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Wine – kindly provided by a sponsor. |
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Sunday |
9.00 |
Coffee and networking. |
9.30 |
Professor Lewis Lesley – John Moore’s University: “sustainable light rail” ……(Apparently there is enough potential biogas to run an entire public transport system in the UK – Ed) |
10.15 |
John Baldwin – Ex Senior Manager British Gas. “The use of clean compressed biogas in vehicles which could cover 12 – 15% of UK vehicle fuel use potentially. |
11.00 |
BREAK |
11.15 |
The Energy book / Claverton Statement – a sort of feasible future – not just a rehearsal of the technologies |
11.45 |
Tim Helweg-Larsen – Director – Public Interest Research Centre: “Climate Code Red” The very latest reading of the climate emergency we have entered. |
12.30 |
lunch |
13.15 |
David Olivier 1.– Energy Advisory Associates: Energy efficiency in existing buildings. |
14.00 |
Dave McGrath – Managing Director ReGenTech Ltd: Fuel Cell Power Solutions “the Role of Hydrogen in a declining fossil supply era” |
14.30 |
David Olivier 2. – Energy Advisory Associates – vast experience and knowledge; Energy efficiency and conservation in New buildings – a look at what is being achieved in other European countries. |
15.15 |
BREAK |
15.30 |
Gregor Czisch – Intermittency aspects – discussion |
16.15 |
Delegates depart. |
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Stream Two |
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Friday |
17.00 |
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18.00 |
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18.45 |
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19.00 |
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19.45 |
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Saturday |
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9.00 |
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9.30 |
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9.45 |
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10.00 |
David Olivier – Energy Advisory Associates – vast experience and knowledge; Transport – a look at what is being achieved in other European countries. |
10.30 |
Professor David Elliot – Open University: Review of Upcoming Renewables – Wave and tidal energy |
11.00 |
BREAK |
11.15 |
Martin Alder – MD, Wind Prospect Ltd.: Wind turbine developer and operator – on-site wind generation. |
11.45 |
Richard Lawson -Desert Rose – ” The use of solar desalination plants to grow forests in deserts” |
12.45 |
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12.45 |
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13.30 |
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13.45 |
Neil Crumpton / William Orchard: City-wide heat grids or integration of CHP and very large renewables. (Neil is working with William on this. They have looked at hollow kerbs made from recycled plastic – designed to any X-section they could carry two eight inch heat pipes, fibre optic broad band and heavy duty electricity cables – could reduce costs and increase convenience and public interest in deploying large scale CHP replacing cast-iron gas grid ) |
14.45 |
Dr. Phil Harris – Biologist Bio energy – quantities and relevance for UK? (Intro for discussion – “do we have the numbers?” |
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15.45 |
Chris Hodrien – A paper on the benefits of Carbon Capture and Storage |
15.45 |
Paul Frederick-Bach – Ex Director of Denmark’s Western Power Grid (which has a high percentage of wind power, and plans to go higher) – Paul has given three previous talks. (Attendance to be confirmed) |
17.30 |
Robin Cook finance etc |
18.15 |
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18.30 |
Chris Cook – Financial Expert: “Beyond ‘Peak Credit’ – asset-based Energy Financing”. |
19.15 |
Bernard Quigg – Senior Electrical Engineer: Title (to be confirmed)- Developments in collecting renewable generation’ |
20.00 |
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20.15 |
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Sunday |
9.00 |
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9.30 |
Dr. Gregor Czisch – Kassel University: Has written various papers on linking grids trans nationally to smooth output of renewables |
10.15 |
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11.00 |
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11.15 |
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11.45 |
John Baldwin – Ex Senior Manager British Gas. The UK’s most efficient gas fired power generation plant (80% of gas energy converted to electricity – expander CHP) |
12.30 |
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13.15 |
Dr Bob Everett – Open University: ‘Peak Oil, Gas, Coal, Phosphorus, Money, etc’ – (the situation doesn’t get any better) |
14.00 |
Dr Graham Sinden, Oxford Environmental Change Institute: The implications of the Em’s 20/20/20 directive on renewable electricity generation requirements in the UK, and the potential role of offshore wind power in this context. (Graham Sinden has published a number of papers looking at the effects of integrating variable/intermittent generation into the generation mix) |
14.30 |
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15.15 |
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15.30 |
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16.15 |
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