Walt Patterson On Energy

Energy futures: Speeches




At Chatham House in 1993 I spoke about Technological Revolution. In 2000 I told a Uranium Institute symposium in London about 'Electricity In Flux', and an ABB colloquium in Interlaken about 'Future Electricity Systems'. In 2005 my keynote address at York University in Toronto was on 'The Electric Challenge: Getting The Story Right', and my lecture to the London Boroughs Energy Group on 'Getting Energy Right'. In 2006 my presentation to the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London was on'Sustainable Electricity: Cultural Barriers'; at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London I declared that 'Energy Policy Is Infrastructure Policy'. In 2007 I spoke in London, Stornoway, Belfast and elsewhere, on my book Keeping The Lights On. In 2008 at the 'Electric West' conference in Las Vegas I gave a keynote speech entitled 'Down with conservation! Forget efficiency!'. At the Global Business Forum in Banff, Alberta, I argued that we should 'Start With Electricity'. At the 'Future Power' conference in London I discussed 'Upgrading Electricity'.

In June 2009 I gave the keynote address at the 'Energy In Transition' conference of the Energy Institute in London, and spoke on 'Energy Security and Regulation' at a seminar at the Warwick Business School. In October, at the Energy Ireland conference in Dublin, I spoke on 'What The Future Holds For Energy Users', and at the World Forum on Energy Regulation in Athens on 'Managing Energy Wrong: and What Regulators Can Do About It'. In December I gave the David Hall Memorial Lecture for UK-ISES, entitled 'Down With Fuel!' . On 3 March 2010 I gave the 'Core Connections' guest lecture at the University of New England, on 'Changing The Way The World Works'. On 25 March, at the Oxford Literary Festival, I called for 'A New Energy Story'. On 17 May I gave a seminar to the Electricity Policy Research Group at Cambridge, on 'An Electric Planet?'. On 27 I spoke at Warwick Business School on 'Energy Policy and Regulation: Future Challenges'. On 7 June, in the opening plenary of the annual conference of the International Association for Energy Economics in Rio de Janeiro, I pointed 'Toward Real Energy Economics'.



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