3rd Claverton Conference 25-27 Nov 07
From Energy-Experts
WHICH PRACTICAL LOW CARBON ENERGY POLICIES SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENT?
Catering courtesy of Jeremy Harrison / Power Gen. 2nd Claverton conference: 23/24/25th Nov at Wessex Water Headquarters, Claverton Down, Bath. BA2 7WW Call 01225 526000 or Dave Andrews 07942 750022 if you are lost.
Background: The conference is a follow up to a previous meeting of an impressive array of senior energy experts, specialists, policymakers and writers covering all aspects of the subject who have been debating on line practical solutions to lowering dependency on fossil fuels / reducing CO2 for the last 12 months (some for 30 years in fact), and who got together in Feb 07 to begin to begin to thrash out a provisional energy policy list. (The Claverton Statement) The network had 140 members at the last count.
Unfortunately due to unavoidable short notice not so many as last time can turn up but a lot of groundwork has been done on the Internet via email and discussions around the Claverton Statement
http://energydiscussiongroup.wikispaces.com/Claverton+Energy+Group+Briefing+Note
Rationale The energy subject is so complex (technical, political, sociological) that unless all dimensions are knowledgeably and freely addressed, by all appropriate experts covering all parts of the problem, no clear, correct, meaningful answers are possible. The Claverton network and associated conferences is intended to ultimately model the true complexity of the issues via the interaction of the specialists each familiar with a particular aspect of the problem.
This means the network should be able to offer well thought out and integrated guidance to government, journalists, general public. These interactive dialogues means that the Relevance Paradox, whereby many inadvertently inappropriate polices can be introduced is solved. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_Paradox
Note: The conference is free but by invitation only.
But if you are invited to come / join and or join by an existing member then your membership is guaranteed.
Please feel free to invite any appropriate colleagues and contacts.
Venue: Wessex Water have kindly allowed us to again use their Headquarters (an award winning environmentally friendly building) which has numerous meeting rooms and conference facilities, at Claverton Down Road, Bath, BA2 7WW, 01225 526000. If driving, make sure you pass the University on your left hand side, then its about 1 mile further along, turn right at the mini-roundabout and its on your left.
Free Bus to Wessex Water HQ leaves from behind Bath railway station at 5.50pm, 6.10 pm, 6.25 pm Friday. Walk under railway arches, over river foot bridge, then left along river 50 yds and on the right is a bus lay-by in the short link road joining the two lanes of the (stupid) one way system.
Frequent taxis from the fine ex GWR Bath Spa Station
Domestic Friday evening a (free courtesy Power Gen) quality hot meal plus wine / beer will be provided, also Saturday evening. Breakfast also available at Claverton from 8.30 Sat Free Parking,
Registration – sign up on the list at the end of this note.
Chatham House rules apply for the duration of the debates i.e. no commentary attributable to individuals externally.
Lap top and Projectors - we have 1 LCD projector and laptop available – and some very slow lap tops. Bring your own lap top as well. All CDs must be virus checked at reception.
Friday Evening - Meet from 6.00 onwards.
6.30 – 7.00 Philip Harris / Roger Button talking on biomass 7.00 – 7.30 Nick Bell talking on a new Stirling engine and waste disposal system 7.30 -9.00 Hot meal, drinks / chat / set up till say 10.00pm
Saturday morning
8.30 – 9.30 Breakfast / coffee available in building.
9.30 - 9.45 Welcome and introductions and attendees areas of interest and special expertise.
9.45 – 10,15 introduction and overall scene setting – What we are trying to achieve overall. Volunteer to take final points and incorporate into Claverton Statement Dave Andrews Presentations:
10.15 - 11.00 Dr David Toke giving Jerome Gullet’s presentation on off shore wind.
11.00 – 11.45 – – Paul Fredrick Bach – Danish CHP and wind power? (may change
11.45 – 12.00 – coffee / chat
12.00 – 12.30 – - Jeremy Harrison – PowerGen. the truth about micro chp with Stirling engines (Thanks to Power Gen for the catering!) 12.30 – 1.30 – lunch
1.30 – 2.30 – Dr Bob Everett and William Orchard - CHP
2.30 – 3.15 Phil Harris presenting data and projections by Dave Rutledge (Caltech) relevant for fossil fuel depletion (Peak Hydrocarbons and Coal) and an important re-working of Global Warming. title:"Hubbert’s Peak, the Coal Question, and Climate Change"
3.15 – 4.00 coffee / chat
4.00 – 4.45 Chris Hodrien’s –company's work on gas pipeline turbo-expanders using "geo-pressure" energy.
4.45 – 5.30 – coffee
5.30 – 6.15 – finishing off the Claverton Statement (1) run through – delegates should have read and commented on.
6.15 – 7.00 The Fred Starr book. Discussion and volunteers for chapters
7.15 Thai buffet served at Claverton plus
copious beers/ales/stouts/wines.
Sunday
9.30 – 10.00 coffee
10.00 – 10.45 Organising the group…must do better than Yahoo – bulletin board? Lots of smaller Yahoos, Wiki?
10.45 – 11.30 finishing off the Claverton Statement (2)
11.30 .11.45 – coffee
11.45 – 12.30 Neil Crumpton Foe. Bright Futures
12.30 – 1.15 – 15 Bernard Quigg – costs of transmission and distribution. I hope Bernard can tell us the present cost of the transmission system as a pence per kWh cost, but he’s also going to talk about the distribution system cost.
1.15 – 1.30 lunch
1.30 – 2. .15 the Fred Starr Book, Date of next conference – 2 days – we need a volunteer per chapter (from the 140 members) as per the Fred Starr Book, for a conference well attended by journalists and policy makers which will be rapidly turned into a book as per the OU book on Renewables. Should this be a weekend or a week day venue this time? If so where? OU – Birmingham, Imperial?
2.15 –3.15 By way of light relief, Hugh Sharman –“ this winters power cuts.”
3.15 – 4.15 Spare
4.15 – 5.00 Spare
Posters: All attendees are encouraged to bring a poster displaying interests / advertise any consultancy / any papers of relevant for informal poster sessions. Consultants are encouraged to promote their business.
Rationale Most energy conferences, special tv energy programmes, or newspaper "Special Energy Supplements" indeed government policies come up with a random selection of disconnected and duplicated ideas with no overall integrity - often pet projects of individual promoters, and or vested interests from the incumbent suppliers – audiences / public / politicians / media / are left confused. It is clear that the recent government Energy Review ignored many of the well researched inputs to come to a pre-conceived conclusion.
I believe we as a group of academic experts, commercial practitioners, scientists, engineers, energy consultants, can come up with a reasonably coherent overall global energy plan, backed up by facts, expertise and good modelling.
This should be something publishable - in the way The Open University's EERU conference is being published by Earthscan as a book and therefore referable to later on by journalists / other interested parties. There could also be an on line archive of discussions.
Delegates:
Hugh Sharman sharman@incoteco.com Polly Higgins – polly_higgins@hotmail.com the lazy environmentalist… Simon Sherrington simon.sherrington@btinternet.com friend of Prof Elliot who is setting up a consultancy on energy and environment…. John Shucksmith – john.shucksmith@virgin.net ex energy manager Wessex water (like me!) John Coulson – john.coulson@wessexwater.co.uk civil engineer at Wessex Water Chris Hodrien chodrien@blueyonder.co.uk may talk on expanders Philip Harris [philsharris2002@yahoo.co.uk] talk biomass plus video
Harrison, Jeremy (Retail) [ Jeremy.Harrison@powergen.co.uk ] talk Micro CHP.. POWER GEN ARE PROVIDING THE FOOD!!!!
David Olivier [d.olivier@energyadvisoryassociates.co.uk] Bed talk conservation
Neil Crumpton [neil@foecnorth.demon.co.uk] talk ??? see below
Kyle Crumpton
Dave Elliott D.A.Elliott@open.ac.uk RO v REFIT as agreed
Bob Everett r.everett@open.ac.uk - 2 talks: 'Transport without petroleum - a peculiar pictorial history'. This is a fairly light-hearted trawl through the picture archives. And one on 'Big City CHP in the UK - history and prospects' - but that would be much the same as the one I did last time.
Bernard Quigg bernardquigg@btinternet.com - Electrical engineer - costs of national grid and transmission and local grids
Richard Lilleystone – RLilleystone@cnch4.com knows how to clean and liquefy bio gas as a vehicle fuel Dave Andrews.. tyningroad@btinternet.com .Claverton Statement - attempt to at least finalise a draft?
Roget button Roger.Button@BuroHappold.com Helen Button
Jonathon Jones jonathandgjones@googlemail.com biologist frs
William Orchard. William@orchardpartners.co.uk
Jerry Williams jerry.williams@wessexwater.co.uk
Paul Frederik Bach - ex director of Denmark's National Grid. pfbach@mail.dk
Dave Searby [1]
