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2024 UCD-ESRI Energy Policy Research Conference

This event showcases a range of research from across UCD’s Energy Institute and ESRI related to energy policy.

When? Tuesday, 16 January 2024, 9:00-13:00 (followed by a light lunch)

Where? ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2

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9.00 Welcome & Coffee

9.30 Introduction

Session 1: Renewable Energy and the Decarbonisation Transition, Chair: Anita Vollmer (ESRI)

10.00 Potential for household solar PV electricity and policy design in Ireland, Joe Wheatley and Lisa Ryan (UCD)

10.25 Impacts of the Transition in the Irish Economy through Electrification, Kelly de Bruin (ESRI)

10.50 Subsea Micropiles as a Solution for Offshore Wind Energy Construction, Ramon Varghese (UCD)

11.15 Coffee break

Session 2: Economic and social impacts, Chair: Lisa Ryan (UCD)

11.30 The equity and efficiency effects of energy subsidy cost-recovery, Harry Humes and Niall Farrell (ESRI)

11.55 Residential and transport energy poverty: impacts on the educational outcomes of young people in Ireland, Monika Da Silva Pedroso, Nessa Winston, Orla Dingley and Paraic Carroll (UCD)

12.20 Looking beyond energy efficiency and the role of financial literacy in experiencing fuel poverty: Evidence from Irish homeowners, Miguel Tovar Reanos, John Curtis, David Meier, and Arya Pillai (ESRI)

12.45 Q&A

13.00-14:00 Lunch

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