Past Meetings

The first power swarm workshop took place in 2018 . We meet once a month. You can find the slides from the past workshops here. Are you interested in presenting at a future event? Let us know by e-mailing office.powerswarm@gmail.com.

2022

24th November  |  The Future of Hydrogen  |  Nature Energy, London

Gniewomir Flis (Gnievchenko Consulting): “Hydrogen beyond the hype”
Paul Balcombe (Queen Mary University): “How green is green hydrogen? A global economic and environmental assessment”
Sulekha Abdi (BEIS): UK Hydrogen Strategy: “Current Policy Design and Future Implementation”
Zeynep Kurban (GHD): “Hydrogen at crossroads: GHD’s perspective of challenges in the sector”
Adithya Bhashyam (BloombergNEF): “Short, Fat and Straight: The Economics of Hydrogen Pipelines”

27th October  |  Energy Security  |  Imperial College London

Antony Froggatt (Chatham House): Redefining Energy Security and Climate Change Requirements in Europe following Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Anastasya Ostronovnaya (Imperial College London): Investing in Low Carbon Energy Security
Grant Wilson (University of Birmingham): Analysis of UK gas stores since 2010

29th September  |  Electricity Market Design  |  Imperial College London

Kate Mulvany (Cornwall Insight): Electricity market design choices
Richard Green (Imperial College Business School): Review of Electricity Market Arrangements
Rob Gross (UK Energy Research Centre): Can renewables and nuclear help keep bills down this winter?

2020

27th February  |  Coal phase-out  |  Imperial College London, London

Rosa Stewart (SSE): Powering Past Coal Alliance and UK leadership in coal phase out
Dave Jones (Ember): Coal phase-out
Sam Bright (ClientEarth): Coal phase-outs: legal approaches
Iain Staffell & Malte Jansen (Imperial College London): The future of global coal markets
Peter Tunbridge (Ember): Tracking the coal phase-out with energy system data

2019

11th December  |  Wind Energy  |  Imperial College London

Sarah Merrick (Ripple Energy): New wind farm ownership models for a post subsidy world
Malte Jansen (Imperial College): The era of subsidy-free offshore wind
Imogen Brown (Bloomberg NEF) The next frontier: finding new offshore wind markets
Donna Peng (Aurora Energy Research): Weather year and location-linked capture price risks
Ayrton Bourn (UCL): Energy & AI: Opportunities & Pitfalls for Wind Generators
Alex Asher (Cornwall Insight): Wind and the general election

21st November  |  Mobility Services  |  Bloomberg NEF, London

Phil Steele (Octopus Energy): Octopus experience with Time-of-Use tariffs
Khangzhen Leow  (e4tech): What’s next for Energy and Mobility service?
Andrew Grant (BloombergNEF): Modelling passenger vehicle demand
Kate Laing (C40): C40 Cities, the ambition of the Paris Agreement, and the implications for urban mobility in the next 10 years
William van der Byl (delta-ee): European customer research: The EV customer and smart charging

17th October  |  Decarbonisation of Heat  |  Energy Systems Catapult, Birmingham

Bianca Howard (Loughborough University): Benefits of Intelligent Aggregation for Demand Response in Electrically heated Homes
Thomas Bradley (Cadent Gas Ltd): Developing a 21st Century Gas System
Muhammad Imran (Aston University): Renewable energy integration in heating network
Arianna Griffa (Energy Systems Catapult): Towards low carbon, smart and affordable heat: policy drivers to decarbonise our homes
Oliver Lancaster (Wales and West Utilities): Freedom: smart multi-vector heating

5th September  |  Future Electricity Networks and Ancillary Services  |  Strathclyde University, Glasgow

Ricardo da Silva (Scottish Power Renewables): Flexibility Strategy with Variable Predictable Resources
Laura Kane (Smarter Grid Solutions): DERMS: Enabling Future Networks
Alastair Martin (Flexitricity): Experiences with distributed resources in the Balancing Mechanism
Bless Kuri (Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission): A paradigm shift in network planning in the face of diverse flexibility
Marcel Nedd and Callum MacIver (University of Strathclyde): Frequency Containment in a Low Inertia Power System with August 9th Case Study

20th June  |  Mobility  |  Baringa, London

Natalie Bird (Baringa): Consumers, Vehicles and Energy Integration – Market Design and System Integration
Nikolas Soulopoulos (BNEF): Modelling EV adoption in passenger and commercial vehicles
Roberto Moreira (Imperial): A Multi-Service Business Model for V2G Flexibility
Charlie Cook (Octopus Energy): Powerloop – The vehicle-to-grid demonstration project
Edward Sargent (Pivot Power): EVs in the next 10 years – More answers than questions!

23rd May  |  Solar  |  Imperial College London

Gemma Stanley (Solar Trade Association) – Post-Subsidy Policy Outlook
Jamie Taylor (Sheffield Solar) – Improved real-time monitoring of the national and regional PV outturn
Dan Travers (Open Climate Fix) -Solar PV ‘nowcasting’
Christopher Baker-Brian (BBOXX) – BOXX – Building a next generation utility
Nathan Murray (Solarcentury) – Furniture and solar panels – The IKEA experience

25th April  |  Demand-side response  |  EPEX SPOT, London

21st February  |  Hydrogen  |  Imperial College London

23rd January  |  Energy Trading  |  Imperial College London

2018

15th November  |  Value of Storage  |  Imperial College London

18th October  |  Modelling Renewables  |  Imperial College London