Events
Upcoming Event: “Competition for the market” versus New Zealand’s electricity market design
Join ESR’s webinar on Wednesday 15th July where academic economist Dr Geoff Bertram will discuss the competitive challenge from renewables entering New Zealand’s electricity market. The seminar looks at possible future outcomes for NZ’s electricity market structure and explores ideas that could facilitate genuine competition for the market in a decentralised industry.
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Video coming soon: Beyond the Hype – The Strengths, Weaknesses, and Impacts of Modern AI
In our webinar on Wednesday 18th March, Emeritus Professor Anthony Robins covered a very brief history and overview of the various technologies that have been and are called “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), with a focus on the currently significant “large language models” such as ChatGPT.
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Video coming soon: Balancing the energy trilemma
EECA Chief Executive Dr Marcos Pelenur will spoke to us on Wednesday 15th October, explaining how energy efficiency and renewables are key to balancing the energy efficiency ‘trilemma’. Dr Pelenur will shared his views on this and the current focus and priorities for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority.
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Video coming soon: Navigating Low-Carbon Building Design – Journeys of France and New Zealand
On Wednesday 20th August we heard Anais Guennoc and Julio Ortiz discuss the Environmental Regulation RE2020 which has been introduced in France, making it one of the first countries to adopt legislation with regulatory thresholds on whole-of-life embodied carbon for buildings. What lessons can be learned for the building and construction industry in New Zealand?
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Watch video: Tipping Points and Planetary Solvency
In this webinar, Professor Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter summarises recent evidence regarding climate tipping points. Associated is the concept of Planetary Solvency, which defines catastrophic impacts as economic contraction with a GDP loss of over 25%, mass human mortality events resulting in over 2 billion deaths, warming of 2 degrees or greater, triggering high numbers of tipping points. Brought to you by ESR, Wise Response, Our Climate Declaration, Degrowth Aotearoa and the Nelson Tasman Climate Forum.
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Watch video: Insights from a community energy project
In this presentation, Stuart Potter will provide first-hand insights arising from the purchase and operation of Heart of England Community Energy, a series of three 5 MW solar energy sites based north of Stratford Upon Avon in the UK. This is one of the largest community solar farms in the UK, made up of around 60,000 solar panels, and has been generating clean and sustainable electricity since 2016.
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