Damian Flynn is an advisor on the Scientist’s Apprentice

Damian Flynn is an advisor on the Scientist’s Apprentice, a series of five fun books that encourage children and adults of all ages to explore the science, technology, engineering and mathematics of the world around us. The Journals were distributed nationally through the Irish Independent newspaper and Tesco’s supermarket chain. The series featured topics such as energy and environment; space and physics; food, health and agriculture; and computer science. 

Consumers, Economics and Energy Systems Workshop, 17th-18th October 2016

Consumers will play a crucial role in the future development of sustainable energy systems. This workshop addressed this issue by bringing together the broad range of disciplines to examine the role of the consumer in energy research, including psychology, marketing and economics.

Please see the agenda and the summary note on the workshop for further information.

The presentations from the workshop are available by clicking the link on each presenter's name below.

Bengt Kristrom
Massimo Tavoni
Claudia Aravena

Karen Turner
Lisa Ryan

Linda Steg and Sabine Pahl

Patrick Devine-Wright and Geertje Schuitema

Benjamin Sovacool
Mark O’Malley

The workshop was hosted by UCD Energy Institute and organized in conjunction with the International Institute of Energy Systems Integration (iiESI), European Energy Research Association Joint Programme in Energy Systems Integration (EERA JP ESI), and Energy Systems Integration Partnership Programme (ESIPP).

Mark O'Malley presented at North China Electric Power University, Beijing on October 15th 2016.

O’Malley, M.J., “Lessons and challenges in integrating variable renewables into sustainable energy systems”, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, October 15th 2016.

Donal Finn and Will Turner are co-authors on the following paper presented at RTUCON2016

Z. Broka, J. Kozadajevs, A. Sauhats, D. P. Finn and W. J.N. Turner ‘Modelling Residential Heat Demand Supplied by a Local Smart Electric Thermal Storage System’, RTUCON2016 (the 57th International Scientific Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering), Riga, Latvia, 13-14 October 2016

Mark O'Malley presented at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai on October 10th 2016.

 O’Malley, M.J., “Lessons and challenges in integrating variable renewables into sustainable energy systems”, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, October 10th 2016.