UCL Australia

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has today announced the members of its inaugural Consumer Challenge Panel, part of planned reforms to the way consumer interests will be included in setting electricity and gas network prices. 

David Travers, Chief Executive of University College London, Australia, speaks at CEDA Climate Change Update on 27 June 2013.

Today, Dr Eleftheria Polykarpou, Lecturer at UCL Australia’s School of Energy and Resources, presented at The International Conference on Process Systems Engineering Asia (PSE Asia 2013) on optimisation of sustainable water desalination process. 

Yesterday Dr Gillian Owen, Senior Research Associate at UCL Australia’s International Energy Policy Institute, presented to the UCL Energy Institute on electricity demand reduction and demand response.

Senior economist Lord (Nicholas) Stern, of the London School of Economics, warned investors at the weekend  that the World faces an economic catastrophe as stock markets inflate an investment bubble in fossil fuels to the tune of trillions of dollars (http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/19/carbon-bubble-financial-crash-crisis). If international agreements hold on curbing carbon emissions, most of these reserves will, in effect, be un-burnable and, therefore, worthless, leading to massive market losses.

Today Professor Stefaan Simons, Director of the International Energy Policy Institute at UCL Australia, presented to the Australian Institute of Energy in Perth on 'Going low carbon through Innovation and Collaboration’.

University College London has today launched up $600,000 worth of Santos Scholarships for 2014, during a student visit to the Santos’ Port Bonython hydrocarbon processing plant.

Australia’s first ever space policy – Australia’s Satellite Utilisation Policy – has been released on 9 April, providing certainty and strategic direction for Australian users of satellite technology.

2 April 2013

The Defence Systems Innovation Centre (DSIC) is pleased to announce that University College London (UCL) has joined as an Affiliate Partner. This partnership will enable DSIC and UCL to collaborate on research and training opportunities for the Australian Defence community. Furthermore, the collaboration will help to increase the access of the Australian Defence Community to global best practice and expertise.

28 March 2013

Professor Tony Owen (International Energy Policy Institute) presented on 27 March 2013 to the Nuclear Engineering Panel - Engineers Australia (Sydney) 

25 March 2013

University College London has strengthened its academic group, appointing former Senior Judge Christine Trenorden as a Visiting Professor to its Australia campus. 

25 March 2013

Water is abundantly found on the Earth’s surface, though only a small percentage of it is accessible freshwater. Its dynamic nature and direct influence on human health and the climate creates a challenge requiring collaboration of scientists, economists, sociologists, policy makers and educators. UN-water aims to realise this through this year’s theme on International Year of Water Cooperation; it is now clear to everyone that we all drink from the same cup.

20 March 2013

On 27 February 2013 Professor Stefaan Simons, Director of the International Energy Policy Institute at UCL Australia, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Four Societies (The Nuclear Engineering Panel of the Sydney Branch of Engineers Australia, The Australian Nuclear Association, The Royal Society of New South Wales and The Australian Institute of Energy) in Sydney.

5 March 2013

University College London (UCL) is currently hosting BP’s Group Chief Economist and Vice President Dr Christof Rühl for a 3-day stay at UCL’s Australia campus in Adelaide. 

22 February 2013

James Smith, chair of the UK’s Carbon Trust, asserted in the UK’s Guardian earlier this week that we can’t stop the damage being done to the climate without having carbon capture and storage (CCS). He also stressed the importance of nuclear power in a future low-carbon energy mix.

29 January 2013

The extreme weather events Australia is currently facing bring in to dramatic focus the fine line between complacency and disaster. We cannot afford to ignore climate change, and our role in that change, any longer. Australia is particularly vulnerable to climate change, since there is no clear leadership on this issue coming from the Federal and State governments and, hence, governance of climate change mitigation and adaptation is severely lacking. A recent study in the UK has shown how the inconsistent and confusing discourse between politicians, scientists and the media is creating increasing uncertainty in the public domain as to whether climate change should be taken seriously. If anything, the situation is worse in Australia.

29 January 2013

UCL Australia is proud to be a sponsor of the South Australian Climate Change Adaptation Showcase, to be held on 14 March 2013 at Pavillion on the Park, South Terrace, Adelaide. 

7 December 2012

This morning University College London held its second ever graduation outside London, with 18 students from Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and Trinidad and Tobago.

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA: Regional South Australia is among the most vulnerable parts of the world due to poor climate policy, according to Professor Stefaan Simons at University College London in Adelaide.

Earlier this month, at a meeting of South Australia’s mining business leaders, the Premier, Jay Weatherill, called for those present to take global leadership in technology innovation to bring about transformative and lasting change in regards to social well-being and the environment.

University College London (UCL) is currently hosting Visiting Professor Paul Stevens for a month-long stay at UCL’s Australia campus in Adelaide. 

Hon Jay Weatherill MP

Premier of South Australia

Level 16, State Administration Centre

TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2012 

It’s a long way from Astana to Roxby Downs, but for University College London Masters of Science student Aishat Yergaliyeva it’s a visit she’s been looking forward to for almost a year.

The world will require a mix of future generation technologies as it struggles to balance rapidly increasing demand against the need for a fundamental behavioural shift towards energy conservation, the need to secure supply and carbon emissions.

Delivering the inaugural Torrens Lecture on 21 March, Dr Tim Stone says the transition to a low carbon economy will be a rugged journey. The lecture titled: ‘The Transition to a low carbon economy: the need to develop energy and government policy to support a national energy strategy’ considers the scale of the task and the urgency to begin.