An Inaugural Energy Centres for Doctoral Training Student Conference

博士培训中心(CDTS)是EPSRC/NERC的研究培训旗舰倡议。在这些中心，学生被招募到队列中，并在对英国具有战略重要性的领域接受高级专家培训。在这些课程中，有9个可以确定为专注于能源。对CDT的一种批评是，它们过于专业，学生可能无法概述所需的能源，从而将他们特定的专业带到英国能源体系现代化的复杂问题上。为了纠正这一点，我们正在寻求组织一次为期两天的受邀会议，在会上，学生群体将有机会会面，并组成CDT之间的团队，以竞争性的方式开发解决方案，以解决英国低级热网的脱碳问题。这些团队将需要汇集不同的技术，并制定出解决方案，由知名能源专家进行评估。在这一过程中，他们将有机会接触金融、法律和政策领域的咨询专家。因此，学生不仅将获得系统思维的经验，还将获得开发和实施新能源技术所需的更广泛的技能。这次会议还将向我们的外部专家顾问介绍CDT结构，从而提高其整体形象。我们将积极寻求新的方法，将新的“额外”技能引入能源CDT培训计划

The Centres of Doctoral Training (CDTs) are the research-training flagship initiative for EPSRC/NERC. In these centres students are recruited into cohorts and receive high-level specialist training in areas of strategic importance to UK. Within these there are nine identifiable as having an energy focus.One criticism of CDTs is that they are overly specialist and there is a danger that students may not develop an overview of energy necessary to bring their particular specialism to the complex problem of modernising the UK's energy system. To remedy this we are seeking to organise a two-day invited conference in which the student cohorts will have the opportunity to meet and to form inter-CDT teams to competitively develop solutions to the problem of decarbonising the UK's low-grade heat network. The teams will need to pool different technologies and produce solutions that will be assessed by high-profile energy experts. During this process they will have access to consultancy specialists in the areas of finance, law and policy. Thus the students will not only gain experience in systems thinking but also in the broader skills necessary to develop and implement new energy technologies.This conference will also introduce our external expert consultants to the CDT structure, thus raising its overall profile. We will be actively seeking new methods for introducing new 'additional' skills into energy CDT training programmes