Susanne Siebentritt of the University of Luxembourg and Petra Schweizer-Ries of Saarland University will hold on Friday, 15 April a lecture about energy, technology and society and how to adapt demand and supply.

The public lecture will stage a dialogue between the physicist and the environmental psychologist on the physical basics of energy consumption - electricity, heat, and transport and as well as energy service demands from a consumer perspective on heating, lighting, and mobility.

Trade-offs from technical, environmental and the social perspectives between current main stream large-scale energy technologies (coal or gas plants, or nuclear reactors) could be illustrated and compared to more distributed and renewable systems to feed the grid (esp. PV cells). This leads to the introduction of three energy cultures: autonomous, dependent & sustainable and the analysis of off-grid energy supply and energy sustainable communities (100% communities, Zero-Emission communities).

The lecture takes place within the series “Science and Citizens Meet Challenges of Sustainability”, a public lecture series that tackles complex environmental and social issues associated with sustainable development. Further information and lecture dates can be found here:

Public Lecture Series.pdf 160.95 kB

https://wwwen.uni.lu/sustainability/events/current_semester

•  When?  Friday, 15 April at 4.15 pm
•  Where? University of Luxembourg, Campus Limpertsberg, Lecture Hall BS 3.03 (162a avenue de la Faiencerie)