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.

 

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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

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Dana Kirchem, Muireann Lynch, Eoin Casey and Valentin Bertsch (ESRI)

Exploring the energy-for-water nexus: Can wastewater treatment facilities provide demand flexibility?

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Andrew Keane (UCD)

The electricity distribution system and energy decarbonisation

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Ciara O'Dwyer and Damian Flynn (UCD)

Impact of flexibility service requirements on power system investment decisions and costs

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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

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Sanghamitra Chattopadhyay Mukherjee, Lisa Ryan and Tensay Meles (UCD)

Attitudes to renewable energy technologies: driving change in Irish households

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Kelly de Bruin and Mert Yakut (ESRI)

How should Irish carbon tax revenues be recycled? An application of the I3E model

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Shiyu Yan, Kelly de Bruin and Emer Dennehy (ESRI)

The impact of carbon tax on the Irish freight sector

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13:00

Close and Lunch