WORKSHOP OGRE : THE SERIOUS GAME ON ENERGY TRANSITION
Energy production and consumption is responsible for 75% of CO2 emissions globally, mainly from fossil fuels, which represent 82% of the global energy mix. In France, even if fossil fuels represent "only" circa 70% of the mix, phasing out in line with the National Low Carbon Strategy (SNBC) remains a political, an encomical, an industrial and a social challenge. You would like to explore the topic, build and simulate your scenario for the energy transition in France and make up your own mind based on scientific and economical data? You would also like to understand your own energy footprint and understand how you could reduce it? Then this session is made for you!
OGRE stands for Ordre de GRandeur des Energies (Orders of magnitude of energies)
OGRE is a serious game focusing on energy transition. The objective for participants is to balance their energy consumption with the energy production in a world without fossil fuels. Initially, participants have a pile representing their own consumption (based on a questionnaire filled upfront), and a pile representing the production available to them based on the installed base of renewable production in France...the 2 piles are obviously not balanced initially! Participants go through several stages of the game where they make individual decisions to reduce their consumption and decisions to collectively invest in energy production assets (onshore renewables, offshore renewables, nuclear).
At the end, besides learning main orders of magnitudes, participants go away with a proposal of the 5 most impactful areas they may want to explore to reduce their footprint based on their current way of living, an indicative budget as well as required raw materials for the production scenario they developped as a team. The game also provides data and insigths on renewables and nuclear energies so participants can make their own view on the tole these technologies should play in the transition.
The simulator, based on works from David McKay, has been developped by us, and in particular by Gregory Kotnarovsky, my partner in crime, who owns PhDs in Engineering sciences and economics. The game is recommended by The Shift project and Negawatt, two of the most influential organizations on energy transition in France.
https://atelierogre.org/ (Sorry, the website is only in french for now, but as discussed, the game has now been translated in English).
The session will be facilitated by Gregory Kotnarovsky and Samuel Rocher (EMBA'13Dec).
Obs: 35 spots available, session held with at least 6 participants.
