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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.

The SSEN Resilience as a Service (RaaS) project is progressing to a second phase. Intended to deliver cost-effective solution for areas susceptible to power outage, the third-party battery system supports continued islanded operation while faults are cleared. A trial has now been given the go-ahe...

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Parliamentary Academic Fellowship Scheme is open for applications Monday 31 January 2022 – Sunday 13 March 2022.

Jaega Wise explores how environmental-impact labels on food and drink products could help lower the carbon footprint of the food industry. Although there’s been an increase in the number of companies using different kinds of carbon and eco labels, they still appear on a small minority of produc...