GC0137 Authority Decision now allows converter-connected technologies to provide virtual synchronous machine capability to the grid. The code – which embraces renewables and interconnectors – has been a decade in formation. Replacing retiring physical inertia from thermal power plant, Nationa...
Oxford University has been awarded £10 million by UKRI, the official research and innovation body, to provide rapid solutions to critical environmental issues. The Agile Initiative at the University’s Oxford Martin School will deliver high-impact interdisciplinary research and contribute urgen...
The IEA and CMCC Weather for Energy Tracker is a new free platform showcasing weather-related data useful to understand, analyse and model the energy sector, from generation to use across sectors. Data is available at the grid, country and sub-national levels, with a daily and monthly resoluti...
EU green investment rules facilitate the rollout of blue hydrogen, a fuel that could be more polluting than the fossil gas it is set to replace
Professor David Howey and colleagues in the Department of Engineering Science are using big data to improve battery testing – a vital step towards a clean energy future.
Researchers at the University of Oxford have collaborated with industry experts to develop an adaptable smart window technology that could reduce the energy usage of an average home by up to a third. The new glass has a spectrally tuneable low-emissivity coating that uses a phase change material ...
The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is working with the Open Innovation Team (OIT) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to provide energy policy briefings for UK academics.
Project LEO is delivering some of the most ambitious, wide ranging, innovative flexible energy trials ever conducted in the UK. The trials will improve our understanding of how opportunities can be maximised and unlocked from the transition to a smarter, more flexible electricity system and how...
Three of Gore Street Energy Storage Fund’s battery storage assets have been ranked as some of the highest revenue generating assets as frequency response prices rise.
Right now, there is arguably no greater technical challenge for the UK, and the rest of the world, than the energy systems transition. Radical challenges require radical solutions.