Energy Society

2019-2020 Info Session

Events
● Careers Fair
○ 23rd October
○ Companies attending - BP, Glencore & Navigant
● Bar Night
○ Early November
○ In collaboration with UCL and LSE
● European tour to an Energy facility
○ Spring term
○ Last year this was to Shell’s R&D facility in Amsterdam in collaboration with TU Delft
○ Heavily subsidised
Talks
● Spotlight Companies
○ Navigant
○ Glencore
○ BP
Industry panel with Materials Society
● Industry / Development insight
○ Role of Oil and Gas industry in renewables
○ Role of China and India in renewables

● Technological Developments
○ Offshore Wind & Offshore Solar - FTI Consulting
An evening with the Shell New
Energies Director
Talk Schedule 2019-2020
Clean Fossil and
Introduction to Oil Role of China and
Trading
Bioenergy
Clean Fossil and India in
Bioenergy Research Renewables
Glencore FTI Consulting
Mr. Martin Read
End of Group
November Dr. Niall Mac Dowell Miss Wen-Yu Weng
RSM G.20
March 10th
January February 2020
October
9th 2020 6th 2020
16th 2019 Company Methane Emissions
Oil and Gas in Spotlight and in Natural Gas
Renewables and Networking Event Supply Chains
Networking Event Navigant Sustainable
BP Gas Institute
Dr. Jasmin Cooper
October 16th - Glencore Graduate Event
RSM G.20 - 6:30pm - 8:30 pm
Catered Networking

● Introduction to Glencore
● Oil Trading Simulation - Bring your laptops!
● Q&A + Networking
○ Mr. Martin Read from Smart Global Trading
○ Ms. Lucy Stewart from Glencore
○ Mr. Andrew Mitchell from Smart Global Trading
Early November - BP Talk + Networking Session
● BP’s Role in Sustainability and Renewables
● Evaluation and Opportunities Team
● Renewable projects and new technology that BP is involved in
● How opportunities / projects are evaluated at BP
Energy Projects
❖ Solar, wind and nuclear projects
❖ Project Managers
● Nuclear fusion - Alexander Coglin
● Solar - ??
● Wind - ??

Recruitments are now open On Rolling Basis

Wind Energy Project
- Wind

Recap : Attended wind turbine workshop

Built a wind turbine

- Possible plan for this year :

● Recapping the theory
● Computer modelling - wind speed, power output, etc.
● Working with Ramboll - offshore wind
Solar Energy Project
- Solar

Recap : Built solar panels

- Initial plan:
● Build solar-powered motion detector to alert on smartphones (can be
implemented this year)
● One year project - can suggest something entirely new
Application Form for Project Managers
Fusion Project
- Inertial electrostatic confinement fusion reactor
- D-D/D-H reaction (~1/6400)
- Collisions at 2% of c, effective T of ~400 M
- Scope for all levels and areas of expertise

Fusion Chamber
Power 50 kV Gas
230 V Exchange
System
G3 Summit
● Get involved in UK’s largest student-led
energy conference
● Content Team (Imperial)
○ Research and reach out to potential
conference speakers
● Marking/Logistics Team (UCL)
○ Publicising the event, organising ticketing,
catering, venue hire
● Finance Team (LSE)
○ Managing finances and acquiring sponsors
● Stay tuned - recruiting in the
following weeks
Energy Journal
● Biannual publication written by students about current energy affairs

● Print publication and an online blog

● Contact Adriaan Hilbers (a.hilbers17@imperial.ac.uk) or Humera Ansari
(hsa210@ic.ac.uk), if you are interested in writing for the Journal.
● We are open for submissions! Theme: Switch on. Deadline: 27/10/19
http://energyjournal.co.uk/
@JournalEnergy
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