The Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) funded scheme will invest capital funding in heat network projects, offering a substantial opportunity to assist the UK in achieving a clean and cost-effective transition towards a low carbon economy.
Applications for £320m HNIP funding invited Read More »
If there’s one topic that can unite a room full of engineers in the UK, across the energy sector and beyond, it’s skills pipelines and future talent. But despite this animation industry skills obstacles seem immovable. Figures about skills gaps, job vacancies and potential economic value – to be lost or gained – are endlessly trotted out to perpetuate a sense of urgency about the challenges industry faces.
Are industry skills challenges insurmountable? Read More »
The report – ‘A future hydrogen economy’ outlines the steps needed for a successful hydrogen economy in the UK by the year 2035.
Arup report highlights potential of hydrogen Read More »
When most are asked to think about geothermal power, their minds will most likely turn to Iceland and with good reason. The country sits across one of the earth’s great tectonic plate boundaries and, as such, 25 per cent of its electricity demand is supplied by this near limitless geothermal resource. But geothermal power production is not limited to Iceland. Pioneering deep geothermal projects in France, Germany and across Europe have demonstrated its potential as a viable renewable energy source comparable to wind, solar and tidal power. Better yet, it can be extracted regardless of the weather, the power as it were, turned off and on to meet demand, like a tap. On 6 November, drilling work began at the United Downs Industrial Estate in St Day in Cornwall, on the UK’s first ever deep geothermal power plant. We anticipate it is only the first step towards making geothermal a viable alternative power source in the UK and of a nascent British industry.
An alternative source of power Read More »
Q: What did receiving the MBE mean to you?
An honourable mention: James Yu interview Read More »
The EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration brings together an interdisciplinary and international team of experts to gain a deeper understanding of a whole systems energy approach to the energy trilemma for the UK.
An integrated energy system Read More »
We have spent the last four decades developing approaches to policy, economic, environment, technology, society and our energy networks which consign each element to existence as a silo. In truth, they should be elements of a single, whole system view and today, a revolution is underway to realise this vision.
An introduction to smart energy dynamics Read More »
Utilities continue to make radical improvements in the efficiency of their day-to-day operations. Nevertheless, in the face of rapidly evolving customer expectations, building a resilient infrastructure that is prepared for all future scenarios can be a significant challenge.
There is increasing interest in the energy sector in the practicalities of delivering “multi-vector” or whole system planning and operation. To support this, Phil Taylor, head of the national Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI) at Newcastle University, has said changes are needed to the regulatory price controls for energy distribution networks.
Align network price controls to boost innovation Read More »
