Wednesday, July 9

The Energy Transition and You – Navigating skills and career opportunities

DEI Public Lecture

By Durham Energy Institute

Date and time

Wednesday, July 9 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1

Location

The Durham Miners' Association

Durham Miners' Hall Flass Street Redhill, Durham DH1 4BE United Kingdom

About this event

Event lasts 1 hour

The Energy Transition and You – Navigating skills and career opportunities in a dynamic and fast evolving environment.

Susan Falch-Lovesy, Head of Social Value, Equinor

The energy transition is multi-directional, dynamic and exciting. Just when you think you understand the prevailing direction… global trends, national politics and societal challenges create more uncertainty. To stay on track we need to appreciate it as an evolving system in all its complexity, one where the skills needs ebb and flow to match the policy and technology choices. Understand the system and we can adapt, act and influence.

So, let’s explore the energy transition through a skills lens. Creating energy for people and progress for society involves ‘search for better’ and strategic skills development is at the heart of maximising the positive opportunities for people.

Sue Falch-Lovesey is Equinor’s UK Head of Social Value. Sue has a 30-year track record of establishing and developing environmental projects and services at various scales for charity, local authorities, private organisations and corporate bodies. Previously she has been a stakeholder lead in offshore wind in the East of England for both Equinor and Vattenfall; A Learning and Skills Advisor and Head of Environmental and Outdoor Learning Services for Norfolk Country Council and has run and established new outdoor education centres and environmental programmes for The National Trust in both Norfolk and South Wales.

Sue is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, is very committed to the energy and skills transition and enjoys being Chair of the UK Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) Investment in Talent Group and sits on the OPITO (UK and Europe) Industry Advisory Council.

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Durham Energy Institute

Durham Energy Institute delivers understanding, leadership and solutions for energy decarbonisation and the transition to net-zero.

About DEI

To meet current targets for reducing greenhouse emissions, addressing climate change and achieving the sustainable development goals, the global energy system needs to move towards renewable energy at unprecedented pace and scale. We need to increase sources of secure low-carbon energy, reduce fossil fuel use and change energy-use practices in our society and industry. However, to be sustainable, decarbonisation must at least avoid increasing the inequalities - and ideally, start to reduce them.

Approaching energy as socio-technical helps us to understand solutions fully and from many perspectives.

Durham Energy Institute works to ensure sustainable and resilient low-carbon energy systems can be developed which meet the needs of different contexts and ensure fair access for everyone.

Examples of our leadership in energy research include:

Promoting a whole-systems approach to energy research integrating the social, environmental, economic, policy, technical and regulatory implications of energy pathways and choices

Best practice in innovative training for future energy leaders

World-leading research to make Offshore Wind more affordable and reliable

Leading international research on smart energy solutions

Working with industrial clusters to developing innovative decarbonisation solutions

Driving forward the UK Hydrogen Revolution

Discovering and developing new energy materials to help achieve durable, efficient, and sustainable energy systems.

With our global partners, DEI is making a real contribution to global energy transitions and ensuring effective solutions for decarbonisation are delivered at local, regional, national and international scales.