Seminar 10th February 2011 6 p.m. University of Southampton (Room TBA)
UK Government Policy on Energy and Climate Change
Rt Hon Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
- Web page
- http://www.chrishuhne.org.uk/
- Categories
- Climate, Earth Observation, Energy
- Submitter
- Petrina Butler
Rt Hon Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
Energy and Climate Change Lecture Series
UK Government Policy on Energy and Climate Change
With the Rt Hon Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
The Sustainable Energy Research Group (SERG) within the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton undertakes extensive research in renewable energy, energy in buildings (including consumption assessments) and the impact of climate change on the built environment.
For renewable energy systems (solar photovoltaics, ocean energy conversion technologies, microgeneration, etc), the work includes fundamental understanding of device performance coupled with realistic estimates of energy yields, accurate characterization of the resources, environmental impacts and the collection of reliable data in the operating environments.
The urban energy portfolio also encompasses studies conducted at the city, village and the building scales of demand reduction, energy generation (microgeneration) and utilising ICT for monitoring building performance and feedback to users with impacts on behaviour.
Current major programmes include energy in communities, “Energy for Development” which promote renewable energy utilisation in various sectors, but with special emphasis on development in rural regions of the world and countrywide capacity building in energy, eco-cities research that aim to study eco-city development encompassing resource assessment, technology pathways for the production and conservation of energy, planning, social and economic studies and the assessment of carbon intensities in cities.
About the speaker
Chris Huhne has been the Member of Parliament for the Eastleigh constituency in Hampshire since 2005, having been the member of the European Parliament for the same area for six years (1999-2005). On entering parliament, Chris Huhne served as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury until 2006 when he became Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and then most recently, Shadow Home Secretary.
Before entering politics, Chris was a financial and economic journalist for nineteen years at the Guardian, Independent and the Economist. He also founded one of the City’s largest teams of economists advising pension funds on overseas investments.
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